STEP Energy Services is reporting job cuts, wage rollbacks, a reduction of manned equipment and reduced capital spending as it adjusts to lower oilfield activity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Budget cuts in the western Canadian oil and gas sector are hitting home for front-line workers who are facing smaller paycheques as well as the ever increasing risk of being laid off.

Reports by two Sanjel employees that all but a handful of staff are losing their jobs are said to be "comically inaccurate," but executives have refused to give actual workforce numbers.