Oilpatch in a sentence

So far, 2023 is shaping up as another year of booming profits for the Alberta oilpatch and another year of industry sloth in making a start on its promised reductions of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).

The downturn that hit the oilpatch eight years ago wasn't kind to downtown workers or the buildings they once filled.

That, plus the fact Smith is an unrepentant, unreformed zealot for the fossil-fuel industry, means renewables are gonna get treated like the oilpatch should be.

Financial results in the oilpatch were expected to be grim, yet the figures announced so far this week are still alarming, as the bloodletting of company balance sheets begins.

First quarter earnings for the Canadian oilpatch are expected to be rough.

There are usually seasonal layoffs at this time of the year in the oilpatch during a period called 'spring breakup,' when the ground thaws and it's often too difficult to work.

Alberta’s oilpatch is celebrating the election of a pro-business government, despite analyst observations that premier-designate Jason Kenney may not be able to do much about getting new oil export pipelines built.

How will new Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan deal with a furious Alberta government and an ailing oilpatch as Ottawa tries to delicately balance national energy policies with its environmental objectives?

Oil and gas companies can be bought for cheap, especially since there are few reasons to be optimistic in the oilpatch these days.

Oil and gas giant Husky Energy on Tuesday laid off what some staffers are saying was hundreds of Calgary employees amid continuing doldrums in Canada’s oilpatch.

Speak to your neighbours, even those you may disagree with, and you’ll find out who’s been helped or hurt by changes to labour standards, higher minimum wage, a downturn in oilpatch activity, or capital projects in this province.

The night before the Star caught up with Wright, he drove to an all-candidates meeting in Rosetown, where he spoke afterward with several men who work in the oilpatch, as he once did.

We are long past the $100-plus-US-a-barrel of a decade ago, when the oil rigs were popping up everywhere and cities like Estevan and Weyburn couldn’t find beds for all those who had found oilpatch work.

What happens now to the Trans Mountain project will be a prime focus for the oilpatch.

The Alberta oilpatch continues to increase oil production, but as pipelines fill up, companies are receiving less money for their oil compared to the rest of the continent.