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Canada’s job vacancies maintain record high for a fourth consecutive quarter: 429,000 jobs went unfi

Canada’s job vacancies maintain record high for a fourth consecutive quarter: 429,000 jobs went unfi

Saskatchewan job vacancy rate decreased slightly with 7,400 unfilled jobs
Mainil has had a storied patch career

Mainil has had a storied patch career

Jerry Mainil has long been a key player in the southeast Saskatchewan oil patch. Mainil was born in Lampman in 1935. He later moved to Weyburn, where he graduated from high school in 1954.

Estevan Chamber of Commerce advises on Plan for Growth 2020

The Estevan Chamber of Commerce has issued recommendations for The Saskatchewan Plan for Growth: Vision 2020 and Beyond.
Meili tours carbon capture and storage facility

Meili tours carbon capture and storage facility

The leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (NDP) Ryan Meili, along with environment and agriculture critique Yens Pedersen and Indian Head-Milestone candidate Jared Clarke, visited Estevan on Aug. 1.
Dean Potter joins the Hall of Fame

Dean Potter joins the Hall of Fame

Dean Potter has had a big impact on the southeast Saskatchewan oilpatch, and has been rewarded with his induction into the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Hall of Fame.

PSAC releases drilling forecast update

The Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC), in its third update to its 2019 Canadian Drilling Activity Forecast, announced that it is decreasing its forecasted number of wells to be drilled (rig released) across Canada for 2019 from 5,300 to

New incentive program for oil and gas competitiveness in Saskatchewan

The Government of Saskatchewan has introduced the Oil and Gas Processing Investment Incentive (OGPII), a versatile new incentive program designed to enhance Saskatchewan’s competitiveness in oil and gas development by enabling increased value-added p
Drilling for potash instead of oil

Drilling for potash instead of oil

The potash and oil business are inexorably linked, as the potash business extensively uses oilwell drilling rigs in their operations. This is doubly so for solution mining, and a new potash mine near Milestone has begun its production drilling.
City of Estevan looking for business partners in the Netherlands

City of Estevan looking for business partners in the Netherlands

The City of Estevan delegation with Mayor Roy Ludwig, economic development co-ordinator Dwight (Fitz) Bramble, a local business representative and Lindsay Quick from the Ministry of Trade and Export Development recently returned from the Netherlands.

Estevan only city without tax increase

A new report shows that Estevan was the only city in the province to not have an increase on the municipal share of property tax this year.
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