Natural gas transportation and distribution, November 2014
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Released: 2015-01-29
Canadian natural gas utilities received 12.9 billion cubic metres of total marketable gas in November, up 4.6% from the same month in 2013.
Gas utilities sold 8.4 billion cubic metres of natural gas in November, up 4.1%. Revenues rose 8.2% from 12 months earlier to $1.7 billion.
Chart 1
Total marketable natural gas
Several provinces post gains in total marketable gas
In Alberta, which produces the most natural gas in Canada, utilities received 9.7 billion cubic metres in November, up 4.9% from the same month a year earlier. Receipts in British Columbia were up 3.5% from November 2013 to 2.8 billion cubic metres, while receipts in Nova Scotia increased for the first time since June 2014, totalling 187.9 million cubic metres.
Sales of natural gas increased in Alberta (up 4.7% to 3.6 billion cubic metres) and Saskatchewan (up 32.5% to 887.8 million cubic metres) compared with November 2013, while sales in Ontario decreased 1.2% to 2.3 billion cubic metres.
Revenues rose in Ontario (up 3.2% to $635.0 million), Alberta (up 11.0% to $488.3 million) and Saskatchewan (up 46.1% to $122.8 million), fuelling the national increase.
Chart 2
Natural gas exports and imports
Exports edge up while imports are down
In November, Canada's exports of natural gas by pipeline to the United States edged up 0.3% to 6.8 billion cubic metres from November 2013. Exports from British Columbia were up 17.4% to 2.5 billion cubic metres. Conversely, exports from Saskatchewan (down 3.9% to 2.8 billion cubic metres) and Ontario (down 15.6% to 596.3 million cubic metres) decreased from the same month a year earlier.
Canada's imports of natural gas decreased 3.1% to 1.7 billion cubic metres, as a result of decreases in New Brunswick and British Columbia.
Note to readers
Data for September and October 2014 have been revised.
Import and export data are a combination of National Energy Board and respondent data.
Marketable gas data reported for British Columbia also includes data for Yukon and the Northwest Territories.
Total marketable gas includes gas received from fields and processing or reprocessing plants after re-injection, field uses, processing plant and reprocessing plant shrinkage, plant use and losses have been deducted.
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