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Maidstone – 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.

Washington – The Keystone XL pipeline has finally, after eight years, received the Presidential Permit required to build across the Canada-U.S. border.

Carlyle – Nalco Champion is reinvigorating its operations in Saskatchewan, with a grand opening coming up soon for a revitalized Carlyle location, and improvements in Estevan and Lloydminster.

Estevan – Dominion Energy Processing Group Inc.’s proposal for a 40,000 bpd refinery at Stoughton has been picking up steam on multiple fronts, and could get a big boost from the recent provincial budget.

Two refinery projects in the works could benefit

Carlyle – Nalco Champion is re-invigorating its operations in Saskatchewan, with a grand opening coming up soon for a revitalized Carlyle location, improvements in Estevan and Lloydminster.

Lloydminster – On March 1 Husky Energy hosted an open house for its proposed asphalt refinery adjacent to the Lloydminster upgrader and ethanol plant. The proposal, if it goes ahead, would add a second 30,000 bpd asphalt refinery to the Border City.

There was one thing we didn’t see in this most recent provincial budget, but it was certainly there – a giant reset button.

So now we know what oil has been paying for. But that’s only the half of it, quite literally.

R. French Transport returns to growth mode