Natural gas transportation and distribution, February 2015
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Released: 2015-04-28
Canadian natural gas utilities received 12.7 billion cubic metres of total marketable gas in February, down 3.9% from the same month in 2014.
Gas utilities sold 10.6 billion cubic metres of natural gas in February, up 3.9%. Revenues increased 1.2% from 12 months earlier to $2.7 billion.
Chart 1
Total marketable natural gas
Receipts down in Alberta
In February, receipts of total marketable gas decreased 6.1% in Alberta to 9.3 billion cubic metres, which was partly offset by higher receipts in British Columbia (up 6.4% to 2.9 billion cubic metres).
Sales of natural gas in Ontario increased 4.3% to 4.0 billion cubic metres compared with February 2014, while sales in Alberta decreased 1.3% to 3.7 billion cubic metres.
Chart 2
Natural gas exports and imports
Imports decrease
In February, Canada's exports of natural gas by pipelines to the United States increased 1.1% to 7.1 billion cubic metres. Higher exports from British Columbia and Ontario contributed to the national increase.
Driven mostly by a decrease in Ontario, Canada's imports of natural gas decreased 3.8% to 2.4 billion cubic metres.
Note to readers
Data for December 2014 and January 2015 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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