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The Weyburn Chamber of Commerce presented Mark and Bobbie Bratrud with the Golden Sheaf award on Tuesday night at the annual Farmer Appreciation Banquet.

Calgary – On Nov. 1 the Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC) released its 2019 Canadian Drilling Activity Forecast. PSAC expects a total of 6,600 wells (rig releases) to be drilled in Canada in 2019. That’s down slightly from this year.

JPD Enterprises set up shop in Lloyd six months ago

Estevan – With Crescent Point Energy Corp. at the top of the leaderboard nation-wide with 17 active drilling rigs, Saskatchewan drilling activity remained relatively flat on Oct. 17 with 49 active rigs. Manitoba had seven rigs on the go.

Lloydminster – Things are picking up for truck sales, according to Roger Deeks, works in sales with First Truck Centre in Lloydminster. They are the Western Star and Freightliner dealer for the region. “It’s definitely picking up.

Lloydminster – There’s a lot of things you might expect to see at an oil show, but a bale of aluminum that used to be part of a tanker truck is not one of them.

Producers in the southeastern region were stalled in their operations by rain and snow in the past week, including more wet snow on Friday morning.

Lloydminster – MTM Energy Service’s booth at the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show featured a recent addition to their offerings- hydraulic hoses. Brett Fisher is the brand manager for MTM in Lloydminster, which opened in 2010.

Lloydminster – JPD Enterprises is doing something that hasn’t been very common since the oil downturn hit, namely adding new iron to its fleet, in addition to opening a new location. In Lloydminster, JPD started renting shop space six months ago.

On a day when West Texas Intermediate hit US$75.55 per barrel, Saskatchewan’s active drilling rig count came in at 47 on Oct. 1, according to sister publication Rig Locator (riglocator.ca). That’s up from 37 just the previous week, on Sept. 27.