Local Business

The price of benchmark West Texas Intermediate oil took a dip below US$50 per barrel in late May and hasn’t returned to that level since, dropping as low as $US42.53 on June 21.

Affinity Credit Union’s District Council 12, which covers the southeast region, handed over more than $58,000 in cheques on Tuesday afternoon to various organizations in the Estevan area.

The Assiniboia Car Wash held its grand opening on July 22. David Willis of Assiniboia and Brad Redekopp of Warman took over as the new owners in June. Terry Severson is now the car wash’s general manager.

The City of Estevan is seeking a firm for the brokerage and marketing of Glen Peterson Park, the industrial subdivision in east-central Estevan that has a number of vacant lots.

A company has stepped in and is now providing transportation services from Estevan to Regina. Rider Express Transport’s first day of service was on Monday morning.

Nominations are now being accepted for the Estevan Chamber of Commerce’s fourth biennial Estevan Business Excellence (EBEX) Awards, which will be handed out on Oct. 20 at the Wylie-Mitchell building.

The shutdown at the carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility at SaskPower’s Boundary Dam Power Station is virtually complete. The CCS facility went offline in late May, and remained shut down through June.

According to numbers reported by sister publication Rig Locator ( www.riglocator.ca ), drilling rig activity remained relatively flat during the second week of July. As of July 14 there were 47 active drilling rigs in Saskatchewan.

This being the third summer since the oil downturn really hit in late 2014, the pace of drilling in Saskatchewan is a little higher than 2015 and a lot higher than 2016, according to numbers posted by sister publication Rig Locator (www.riglocator.

A guilty plea has been entered in connection with a workplace accident in Estevan nearly two years ago.