Pipeline News

Lloydminster – An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Keep that adage in mind when expensive oilfield equipment or components break down during this current low oil price environment.

Saskatoon – Finding better ways to pipeline light and heavy oil from the wellhead to process facilities will be under study at the newly expanded Pipe Flow Technology Centre at the Saskatchewan Research Council in Saskatoon.

Wainwright – The annual Wainwright and District Oilmen’s Bonspiel will take place from Jan. 30 to Feb. 1. It will be the 37thannual version of the bonspiel.

Calgary –It’s pink slip time for oilfield service provider Baker Hughes Inc. which is cutting 7,000 jobs worldwide due to a sharp decline in crude oil prices. The company to be acquired by Halliburton Co.

Lloydminster – An official “Hamptonality moment” will take place in Lloydminster during the grand opening of the new Hampton Inn by Hilton in Lloydminster on March 12.

Calgary – CWC Energy Services Corp. is adjusting to the reality of volatile oil prices with a reduced 2015 capital expenditure budget of just $14.6 million.

Calgary – Tuscany Energy Ltd. is deferring all but required capital projects in 2015 until oil prices show sustainable gains. The decision announced on Jan.

Calgary – Spartan Energy Corp. plans to continue to deliver per share growth in 2015 organically with a capital expenditure budget of $105 million.

Calgary – Ongoing diversification from service centres in Beaverlodge, Medicine Hat and Slave Lake in Alberta is proving to be profitable for New Energy Services Inc.

Lloydminster – When the thermometer plunges, sales of warm clothes for work or play heat up at Northern Factory Workwear in Lloydminster and Saskatoon.