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By Dec. 11, Saskatchewan’s drilling rig fleet was already winding down prior to the Christmas holidays, according to sister publication Rig Locator (www.riglocator.ca). Thirty rigs were working on that day. That’s a drop by half from Nov.

Not only are Units 4 and 5 at the Boundary Dam Power Station slated to come offline, possibly as soon as the end of next year, but Unit 6 also has an uncertain future.

The Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC) travelled to Ottawa in early December to deliver a message to parliamentarians of the crisis occurring in Canada’s oil and natural gas industry, and the need for a Canadian energy brand that include

When he looked out the window, SaskPower president and CEO Mike Marsh knew things were serious. While speaking to Estevan Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, he spoke of what the big blackout two days before was like, from his perspective.

There is no equivalency agreement yet when it comes to carbon dioxide emissions from SaskPower’s coal fleet, and time is running out to achieve one.

A total of $20.1 million in revenue was raised in Saskatchewan’s December public offering of Crown petroleum and natural gas rights, which featured significant attention in the Wilkie and St. Walburg areas in west-central and northwest Saskatchewan.

Tina Strudwick is the winner for Week 3 in the Estevan Mercury Publications’ #MercuryChristmas promotion.

Much of the province was left without power on Tuesday, and the source of that outage was transmission lines in southern Saskatchewan weighed down by heavy frost accumulations.

The Government of Saskatchewan announced a program on Dec. 5 designed to improve the petroleum industry’s long-term operating environment, sustain jobs, and increase investment activity in the province.

By Crystal Rhyno of the Daily Oil Bulletin By increasing its enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in southeast Saskatchewan, Vermilion Energy Inc. hopes to boost oil production.