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Natural gas transportation and distribution, June 2015

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Released: 2015-08-28

Canadian natural gas utilities received 11.2 billion cubic metres of total marketable gas in June, up 4.3% from the same month in 2014.

Gas utilities sold 4.9 billion cubic metres of natural gas in June, up 0.2%. Revenues decreased 24.0% from 12 months earlier to $913.2 million, reflecting lower natural gas prices in Canada.

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

In June, total receipts of marketable gas increased 9.5% to 8.2 billion cubic metres in Alberta, and were relatively unchanged in British Columbia, up 0.5% to 2.6 billion cubic metres.

Sales of natural gas increased 2.8% in Alberta to 2.5 billion cubic metres, while they decreased 3.3% in Ontario to 1.2 billion cubic metres.

Chart 2  Chart 2: Natural gas sales revenue
Natural gas sales revenue

Revenues continue to decline in Ontario and Alberta

The decrease in revenues at the national level in June was led by Ontario, where revenues fell 10.7% to $418.2 million, and Alberta, where they declined 44.7% to $234.0 million. Year over year, revenues were down for the seventh consecutive month in Alberta and for the third consecutive month in Ontario.

Imports continue to decline

Canada's imports of natural gas decreased year over year for the 15th consecutive month, down 21.1% in June to 1.2 billion cubic metres. The decrease was driven by lower demand in Ontario.

In June, exports of natural gas by pipeline to the United States rose 3.0% to 6.0 billion cubic metres.

  Note to readers

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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