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Company is one of the few willing to try to develop natural gas in Quebec

First in a series of two stories, interviewing each of the candidates running for NDP leadership

Second in a series of two articles on the candidates for the NDP leadership

Tags on every pipe and an app on your phone provide pipe measurement

TORC Oil & Gas Ltd. announced on Dec. 12 the company’s board of directors has approved a 2018 capital budget of $165 million.

Estevan – Prairie Hot Shot Ltd. started operations in Estevan on Sept. 1. The outfit is a three-way partnership of Alyshia Rae, Todd Adams and Dustin Mack. They have four trucks and five trailers.

Estevan – On Sept. 25, Apollo Electric & Controls, an new electrical company, fired up in Estevan. The outfit is run by partners Trevor Dutka and Jim Schlamp, who have joined up with the partners behind Estevan Meter Services Ltd.

Soon to be testing a frac system that could eventually handle hundreds of stages

While drilling down, as it were, on the numbers in the annual Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC) drilling forecast for 2018, one number leapt out at me: zero.

As 2017 comes to a close, it rounds out a year that started very bleakly, and now, going into 2018, is showing promise. Talking to people in the oilpatch in late 2016 and the first few months of 2017 was almost like going to a funeral.