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About a week after the provincial budget came out on March 22, Premier Brad Wall sent out letters to a number of oil companies, inviting them to come to Saskatchewan.

Back in 2008 a remarkable thing happened: Saskatchewan had more than a billion dollars in Crown land sales. Most of that was around Stoughton, and much of it was driven by Crescent Point Energy Corp.

Lloydminster 鈥� Astec Safety Inc. of Lloydminster is adapting with the times, both in having dealt with the downturn in the oil sector and changing how safety courses are taught.

Maidstone 鈥� Asked how things have been going, Bob Ormiston of GreMur Industries Ltd. in Maidstone responded, 鈥淚t鈥檚 going.鈥� 鈥淚t鈥檚 been relatively slow the last three years, ever since oil took a dive.鈥� Pipeline News visited GreMur on Feb. 21.

Sedgewick, Alta. 鈥� Very few companies in the oilpatch last 60 years. Fewer still remain as the same legal entity throughout that time. But on Feb. 22, Arnett & Burgess Pipeliners Ltd. hit six decades in operation.

Maidstone 鈥� 鈥淭here鈥檚 definitely a lot more traffic. Traffic-wise, that means dollars,鈥� said Kevin Pike, partner in Maidstone鈥檚 Keranda Industrial Supply Ltd.

Regina 鈥� Energy and Resources Minister Dustin Duncan announced on March 23 that the Ministry of the Economy has completed its investigation of the Husky pipeline incident on July 21, 2016.

Maidstone 鈥� Paul Lawrence has been with Baytex Energy Corp.鈥檚 Maidstone area Soda Lake operations since the beginning, when the company purchased the area from Dorset in 1997. Lawrence, 55, is originally from Red Water, Alta.

Maidstone 鈥� When Brian Blanchette left the oil producer he had been working with to join Baytex nearly 20 years ago, he wasn鈥檛 alone.

Maidstone 鈥� Baytex Energy Corp. has been a key player in the Maidstone oilpatch, with its Soda Lake field southwest of the community seeing active drilling during the winter season.