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Natural gas transportation and distribution, April 2015

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Released: 2015-06-30

Canadian natural gas utilities received 11.9 billion cubic metres of total marketable gas in April, up 3.7% from the same month in 2014.

Gas utilities sold 7.2 billion cubic metres of natural gas in April, down 4.7%. Revenues decreased 23.5% from 12 months earlier to $1.5 billion. According to the Raw Material Price Index, natural gas prices were down 21.9% in April compared with the same month a year earlier.

Chart 1  Chart 1: Total marketable natural gas
Total marketable natural gas

Receipts up while sales decline in Alberta

In April, total receipts of marketable gas increased in Alberta (up 5.5% to 8.2 billion cubic metres) and British Columbia (up 4.9% to 3.2 billion cubic metres).

Sales of natural gas were lower in Alberta (down 2.8% to 3.0 billion cubic metres) and Ontario (down 7.1% to 2.4 billion cubic metres) compared with April 2014.

The decrease in revenues at the national level was led by lower revenues in Ontario (down 8.8% to $732.8 million) and Alberta (down 53.4% to $275.5 million).

Chart 2  Chart 2: Natural gas exports and imports
Natural gas exports and imports

Higher exports, lower imports

In April, exports of natural gas by pipelines to the United States from Canada rose 4.3% to 6.1 billion cubic metres. Higher exports from British Columbia and Saskatchewan contributed to the national increase.

Canada's imports of natural gas decreased by 22.3% to 1.4 billion cubic metres, mainly as a result of a decline in Ontario.

  Note to readers

Data for February and March 2015 and for 2012 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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