August 7, 2020, 7:30 AM MDT
July 22, 2020, 6 AM MDT
Canada’s direct oil and gas employment declined by more than 6,700 positions in June, compared to the previous month, with about 70 per cent of the net job losses in Alberta, according to the PetroLMI Division of Energy Safety Canada.
July 14, 2020, 10:17 AM MDT
Alberta’s newly-announced recovery plan will create tens of thousands of jobs, making for a more productive long-term economy thanks in part to massive infrastructure projects — totalling $10 billion — that aim to immediately give people jobs building pipelines, natural gas lines, roads, bridges, overpasses, water projects, and more, announced the government.
June 29, 2020, 3:10 PM MDT
Oil and gas producers are beginning to cut jobs on the heels of significant cuts to the oilfield services sector in the first half of 2020.
June 26, 2020, 6:30 AM MDT
The development of the new LNG plants in Canada that appear most likely to proceed could create up to 8,300 jobs in the upstream sector, several thousand peak construction jobs, 1,200 or more operations positions and thousands of spin-off jobs in local communities, according to a new report.
June 25, 2020, 7:55 AM MDT
Keep it local. That is a key consideration Reeve Leanne Beaupre from the County of Grande Prairie hopes government takes into account as it divvies out spending for the province’s Site Rehabilitation Program.
June 24, 2020, 9:33 AM MDT
For Mark McCutcheon and Donald Dipsingh, the COVID-19 pandemic brought progressing careers to a sudden stop.
June 23, 2020, 9:44 AM MDT
June 8, 2020, 9:59 AM MDT
COVID-19’s legacy — aside from its health care impacts — could include increased debt and poverty, and a GDP that will not soon return to its pre-pandemic levels, according to Elias Foscolos, energy services and infrastructure analyst from Industrial Alliance Securities Inc. Canada’s energy sector certainly will feel the impacts of this legacy as well.
May 20, 2020, 12 AM MDT
Provincial governments are slowly restarting their economies in stages, and companies in the energy sector will likely take a similar, methodical approach in returning to “normal.”
May 19, 2020, 6:37 AM MDT
Precision Drilling Corporation expects the federally-funded $1.7 billion well abandonment and site rehabilitation program to support the well-services business quite nicely but top executives are concerned the funding does little to support the drilling side of oilfield services – a segment experiencing record lows.
May 1, 2020, 6:17 AM MDT
Being the largest service rig company in Canada, CWC Energy Services Corp. said it will be a net beneficiary of the $1.7 billion funding package to the governments of Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and the Alberta Orphan Well Association (OWA) for well decommissioning and reclamation of abandoned and inactive wells.
May 1, 2020, 6:43 AM MDT
Husky Energy Inc. will take “learnings gained” through implementing work from home strategies for the vast majority of its office staff during the COVID-19 crisis and could apply them sometime down the road, says the company’s top executive.
April 30, 2020, 12 AM MDT
In response to the continued deterioration of industry conditions since March 27, 2020, Calfrac Well Services Ltd. has implemented further reductions to the number of staffed fleets capable of being deployed in its North American operations, which have decreased from 19 as of Feb. 29, 2020 to five fleets at present.
April 29, 2020, 3:34 AM MDT
It was a short and not very sweet annual meeting Tuesday for Calgary-based Wesern Energy Services Corp., held in a virtual formal, given the COVID-19 requirements limiting large gatherings.
April 29, 2020, 7:07 AM MDT
Yangarra Resources Ltd. will qualify for 75 per cent wage coverage from the federal government due to the significant reduction in revenue from 2019.
April 29, 2020, 3:53 PM MDT
The government’s ‘Blueprint for Jobs’ that was highlighted in the throne speech this week will include maintenance of the $1.1 billion Petrochemicals Diversification Program and using Technology, Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) to support clean development of the resource sector.
February 27, 2020, 3:23 PM MST
Peyto Exploration & Development is a natural gas weighted E & P that is committed to building value through the exploration and development of high quality gas properties with a focus in the Alberta Deep Basin.
December 24, 2019, 6 AM MST
Peyto Exploration & Development is a natural gas weighted E & P that is committed to building value through the exploration and development of high quality gas properties with a focus in the Alberta Deep Basin.
December 23, 2019, 6:32 AM MST
Peyto Exploration & Development is a natural gas weighted E & P that is committed to building value through the exploration and development of high quality gas properties with a focus in the Alberta Deep Basin.
December 20, 2019, 6 AM MST
Peyto Exploration & Development is a natural gas weighted E & P that is committed to building value through the exploration and development of high quality gas properties with a focus in the Alberta Deep Basin.
December 19, 2019, 6 AM MST
Perpetual Energy Inc. has laid off one-quarter of its workforce while downgrading its 2019 guidance, the company announced in its third quarter results release.
November 11, 2019, 9:10 AM MST
October 15, 2019, 7:37 AM MDT
Halliburton Company said on Wednesday it is cutting another 650 U.S. oilfield services jobs as U.S. and gas producers have slashed spending amid weak prices and investor demands for higher returns.
October 9, 2019, 10:45 AM MDT
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