Natural gas transmission, storage and distribution, June 2017
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Released: 2017-08-23
Natural gas transmission pipelines received 507.2 million gigajoules of natural gas from fields, gathering systems and plants in June.
Natural gas transmission systems delivered 131.1 million gigajoules to industrial consumers. Natural gas distribution systems delivered 24.2 million gigajoules to industrial, 19.7 million gigajoules to residential and 17.2 million gigajoules to commercial and institutional consumers in June.
Provincial deliveries
In Alberta, June deliveries of natural gas totalled 115.9 million gigajoules, while 22.3 million gigajoules of natural gas were delivered in Ontario.
Chart 1
Canadian monthly natural gas inventories
Inventories
Opening inventories of natural gas in Canadian facilities totalled 777.8 million gigajoules in June. Over the month, inventories rose 8.9% to close at 847.1 million gigajoules.
Exports and imports
Canada exported 264.2 million gigajoules of natural gas by pipeline to the United States in June and imported 79.0 million gigajoules.
Chart 2
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 CANSIM tables 129-0001, 129-0002, 129-0003 and 129-0004 will remain available for historical reference.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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