Natural gas transmission, storage and distribution, January 2018
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Released: 2018-03-23
Natural gas transmission pipelines received 597.3 million gigajoules of natural gas from fields, gathering systems and plants in January, up 5.5% from the same month in 2017. Seven provinces posted receipts, with Alberta (68.8%) and British Columbia (29.1%) holding the vast majority.
Natural gas transmission and distribution systems delivered 265.1 million gigajoules to industrial consumers, 116.1 million gigajoules to residential consumers and 88.3 million gigajoules to commercial and institutional consumers in January.
Chart 1
Canadian monthly natural gas deliveries
Provincial deliveries
In Alberta, January deliveries of natural gas totalled 207.5 million gigajoules. The majority (74.7%) were delivered to the industrial sector, which accounted for 33.0% of the natural gas consumed in Canada.
In Ontario, 137.7 million gigajoules of natural gas were delivered in January. The residential sector received 43.0% of these deliveries, followed by the industrial (29.4%) and commercial (27.6%) sectors.
Inventories
Closing inventories of natural gas in Canadian facilities totalled 799.6 million gigajoules in January, down 14.5% from the beginning of the month and the thrid consecutive month of withdrawals. Five provinces held inventories, with Alberta (64.0%) and Ontario (25.7%) storing the vast majority.
Chart 2
Canadian monthly natural gas inventories
Exports and imports
Canada exported 311.0 million gigajoules of natural gas by pipeline to the United States in January. Imports of natural gas from the United States totalled 82.7 million gigajoules.
Chart 3
Canadian imports and exports of natural gas
Note to readers
In January 2016, changes were made to the Monthly Natural Gas Transmission Survey and the Monthly Natural Gas Distribution Survey. In addition, the Monthly Natural Gas Storage Survey was introduced to provide measures on gas storage characteristics related to inventories and flows.
Storage data are now published in CANSIM table 129-0005, transmission data in CANSIM table 129-0006 and distribution data in CANSIM table 129-0007. CANSIM tables 129-0001, 129-0002, 129-0003 and 129-0004 will remain available for historical reference.
Definitions
Data on natural gas no longer correspond to marketable natural gas but represent natural gas from fields, gas-gathering systems and gas plants.
Natural gas deliveries (termed "sales" in releases prior to January 2016) include deliveries to industrial, commercial and institutional, and residential consumers.
Opening inventories correspond to inventories as of the first day of the reference month, while closing inventories correspond to inventories as of the last day of the reference month. For example, the reference period for the opening inventory in January was January 1, while the reference period for the closing inventory was January 31.
Pipeline fuel is used to power compressors to move gas through pipelines.
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