Local Business

Estevan Mercury Publications has announced the addition of Kimberlee Pushie to its staff as a sales representative. Pushie previously worked at RE/Max Blue Chip Realty in the administrative department.

If a blockbuster deal goes through, a baker’s dozen of drilling rigs in southeast Saskatchewan will need new signs, and possibly new paint. Ensign Energy Services Inc. announced on Aug.

Whitecap Resources Inc. has announced operating and unaudited financial results for its second quarter.

The 2018 Calgary Stampede saw Bienfait resident Cody Lafrentz win the Junior Steer Classic with his steer Lucky Strike. “This was my seventh year competing at the Calgary Stampede,” said Lafrentz.

The merger of Spartan Energy Corp. plus drilling done earlier this year has resulted in a 15 per cent increase in production for Vermilion Energy Inc., according to its second quarter results announced on July 30.

Unit 3 at the Boundary Dam Power Station is remains offline. The unit was knocked out of service by the severe thunderstorm that struck the Estevan area on June 14.

Estevan Mercury Publications and Fired Up Grill are teaming up to host an exclusive patio party that will be one of the last great bashes of the summer. The party will be Sept. 8 at the restaurant’s patio.

Rosy predictions for 2018 are turning into rose-coloured glasses, as the Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC) has revised its drilling activity forecast downward.

Crescent Point will be spending less in the third quarter and moving that money to later in the year, according to the company’s second quarter press release and conference call on July 26.

TransGas, the pipeline subsidiary of SaskEnergy, will be conducting a controlled flare of natural gas six kilometers north of Estevan and approximately five kilometres east of Highway 47.