Canada's oil and gas drillers ‘making money’ in busiest May since boom-era 2014 ‘Two months ago, if you said oil is going to be the low 80s, you'd pop the champagne,’ said Ensign Energy Services Inc. president Bob Geddes Pumpjacks are framed by a wheat field near Cochrane on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. Gavin Young/Postmedia file High oil prices are propelling a new rush for black gold across Western Canada, with drillers getting the most action they’ve had in more than a decade.