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With warmer than normal temperatures in all western provinces, natural gas sales showed small decreases in the residential and commercial sectors in November.
Sales to the commercial (-3.8%) and residential (-3.6%) sectors were down while sales to the industrial sector (including direct sales) increased by 2.3%.
Natural gas sales totalled 6 823 million cubic metres, down 0.5% from November 2006.
On a year-to-date basis, sales at the end of November were up 2.5% from the same 11-month period in 2006 in the wake of across-the-board increases in all sectors.
The residential (+5.3%) and commercial (+3.6%) sectors have posted a higher volume of sales over the first 11 months of 2007 compared with the same period a year earlier, as have sales of natural gas to the industrial (including direct sales) sector (+1.2%).
| Natural gas sales | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2007p | November 2006 | November 2006 to November 2007 | |||
| thousands of cubic metres | % change | ||||
| Total sales | 6 822 866 | 6 854 762 | -0.5 | ||
| Residential | 1 787 834 | 1 854 343 | -3.6 | ||
| Commercial | 1 266 066 | 1 316 195 | -3.8 | ||
| Industrial and direct | 3 768 965 | 3 684 224 | 2.3 | ||
| Year-to-date | |||||
| 2007p | 2006 | 2006 to 2007 | |||
| thousands of cubic metres | % change | ||||
| Total sales | 63 517 021 | 61 957 529 | 2.5 | ||
| Residential | 14 861 087 | 14 110 371 | 5.3 | ||
| Commercial | 10 829 965 | 10 456 938 | 3.6 | ||
| Industrial and direct | 37 825 968 | 37 390 220 | 1.2 | ||
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Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2149.
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