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Estevan – The first indication that the oil downturn was starting to turn around was in the service rig sector. As early as the first quarter of 2017, service rigs started advertising for new workers, and several reported shortages.

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Estevan – Saskatchewan’s active drilling rig count in 2018 has, at almost all points except the month of June, been better than the same corresponding times in 2017 and markedly better than 2016.

Back in January, my phone rang. On the other end of the phone was Melinda Yurkowski, assistance chief geologist, petroleum geology, who looks after the sedimentary division of the Saskatchewan Geological Survey.

Regina – In early July, the world was enraptured with the plight of 12 Thai soccer players who were led by their coach four kilometres deep into a cave, only to be trapped by rising waters from heavy rains.

Regina, Consul – In the very southwest corner of the province, Savanna Drilling Rig 629 was drilling for a natural gas, but not the one you might think. No, it wasn’t methane, CH 4 . It was helium, He. North American Helium was Inc.

Regina – While the geology side of the Saskatchewan Geological Survey has received a lot of press from this paper over the years, there’s a portion of the survey that hasn’t, the data management section.

Chief Geologist Dr. Gary Delaney has been with the Saskatchewan Geological Survey since 1986, initially doing geological mapping in northern Saskatchewan. “I walked thousands of kilometres up there.

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They stopped paying him, but he never really left for 31 years, and counting