Pipeline News

Cromer, Man. – There’s a picture on Facebook that keeps floating around. In it, a stick figure in a toque asks himself why he lives in a place where the air stings his face.

Cromer, Man. – Jaie Zorzos, 24, has been fracking since 2010. Now he’s running one of the most prominent pieces of equipment on the frac spread, the coil tubing unit.

Weyburn – Panther Drilling of Weyburn was still going strong through much of January as rigs were being racked across the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin.

Estevan – The start of the year has been good, but as for later this year, that’s another story.

Regina – The Regina edition of the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference seems to have all the luck. The annual conference, which alternates between Regina and Bismarck, N.D.

Last month saw a lot of doom and gloom in the oilpatch, this month it was amplified. We saw oil drop to the $45 range in January. It seemed that level, below $50, is when things started “getting real,” so to speak.

Lloydminster – The boom and bust of heavy oil prices is old hat to the city of Lloydminster that continues to plan ahead based on an average population growth rate of 2.5 per cent. The city’s new 2015 capital budget of $52.

Estevan – If there was one word to describe the hydraulic fracturing business in Saskatchewan in 2014, that word would be “upheaval.” The changes are most pronounced in southeast Saskatchewan.

Estevan – Red Dog Drilling of Estevan sent out its latest rig into the field in mid-January, working near Northgate.