The Daily, Thursday, December 1, 2005. Crude oil and natural gas: Supply and disposition

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Crude oil and natural gas: Supply and disposition

Crude oil and equivalent hydrocarbons production fell 5.5% in September compared with September 2004. Crude oil exports, which accounted for 63.6% of total production, declined 2.9% compared with the same period last year. This decrease in production was attributed to a shutdown of the Terra Nova oil field in September for planned maintenance, and lower synthetic oil production in Alberta compared with last year.

The year-to-date production of crude oil was down 5.3% over the same period last year, while crude oil exports also declined 4.4%.

Marketable natural gas production advanced 6.2% over the same period last year. Exports of natural gas also increased 2.7% over September 2004. However, domestic sales declined 13.4%, largely as a result of a 16.0% drop in industrial sales from the same month last year.

Crude oil and natural gas

September 2004

September 2005

September 2004 to September 2005

thousands of cubic metres

% change

Crude oil and equivalent hydrocarbons¹

Production

12 121.4

11 449.4

-5.5

Exports

7 492.4

7 277.3

-2.9

Imports²

4 711.6

4 399.4

-6.6

Refinery receipts

9 359.6

8 619.7

-7.9

millions of cubic metres

% change

Natural gas³

Marketable production

13 094.4

13 907.8

6.2

Exports

8 329.1

8 556.0

2.7

Domestic sales⁴

4 288.9

3 715.2

-13.4

January to September 2004

January to September 2005

Jan.-Sept. 2004 to Jan.-Sept.2005

thousands of cubic metres

% change

Crude oil and equivalent hydrocarbons¹

Production

112 322.7

106 367.6

-5.3

Exports

70 906.6

67 760.3

-4.4

Imports²

41 266.8

39 879.2

-3.4

Refinery receipts

83 396.6

79 900.0

-4.2

millions of cubic metres

% change

Natural gas³

Marketable production

124 263.6

126 207.6

1.6

Exports

77 731.8

79 341.6

2.1

Domestic sales⁴

52 138.7

50 960.7

-2.3

1.	Disposition may differ from production because of inventory change, industry own-use, etc.
2.	Crude oil received by Canadian refineries from foreign countries for processing. Data may differ from International Trade Division (ITD) estimates because of timing differences and the inclusion of crude oil landed in Canada for future re-export in the ITD data.
3.	Disposition may differ from production because of inventory change, usage as pipeline fuel, pipeline losses, line-pack fluctuations, etc.
4.	Includes direct sales.

Available on CANSIM: tables 126-0001 and 131-0001.

Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2198.

Preliminary data are available on CANSIM at the national level to September 2005 inclusive. At the national and provincial level detailed information is available on CANSIM for crude oil (126-0001) up to July 2005 inclusive, and for natural gas (131-0001) up to April 2005 inclusive.

For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact the dissemination officer (1-866-873-8789; 613-951-9497; energ@statcan.gc.ca), Manufacturing, Construction and Energy Division.