Natural gas transportation and distribution, January 2015
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Released: 2015-03-25
Canadian natural gas utilities received 13.9 billion cubic metres of total marketable gas in January, down 3.8% from the same month in 2014.
Gas utilities sold 11.0 billion cubic metres of natural gas in January, up 2.4%. Revenues decreased 4.8% from 12 months earlier to $2.2 billion.
Chart 1
Total marketable natural gas
Receipts down in Alberta and Nova Scotia
Natural gas utilities receipts decreased in Alberta (down 5.2% to 10.2 billion cubic metres) and Nova Scotia (down 13.6% to 307.3 million cubic metres) from January 2014, while receipts in British Columbia increased 2.0% to 3.2 billion cubic metres.
Sales of natural gas increased in Alberta (up 4.9% to 4.0 billion cubic metres) and Saskatchewan (up 35.5% to 961.6 million cubic metres) compared with January 2014, while sales in Ontario decreased 3.4% to 4.0 billion cubic metres.
Chart 2
Natural gas exports and imports
Exports and imports both decrease year over year
In January, Canada's exports of natural gas by pipelines to the United States decreased 6.6% to 7.9 billion cubic metres. Lower exports from Saskatchewan, Manitoba and New Brunswick led the national decrease.
Canada's imports of natural gas decreased 14.4% to 2.1 billion cubic metres, driven mostly by decreases in Ontario and New Brunswick.
Note to readers
Data for November and December 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 include 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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