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Natural gas transmission, storage and distribution, July 2018

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Released: 2018-09-24

Natural gas transmission pipelines received 567.6 million gigajoules of natural gas from fields, gathering systems and plants in July, up 5.7% from the same month in 2017. The vast majority of receipts were in Alberta (68.8%) and British Columbia (29.1%).

In July, natural gas transmission and distribution systems delivered 214.3 million gigajoules to industrial consumers, 15.9 million gigajoules to residential consumers and 15.1 million gigajoules to commercial and institutional consumers.

Chart 1  Chart 1: Canadian monthly natural gas deliveries
Canadian monthly natural gas deliveries

Canadian distribution systems delivered $229.5 million worth of natural gas to residential consumers and $102.6 million worth of natural gas to commercial and institutional consumers in July.

Provincial deliveries

Alberta deliveries of natural gas totalled 149.0 million gigajoules in July. The majority (94.8%) were delivered to the industrial sector, which accounted for over half (57.5%) of the natural gas consumed in Canada.

Meanwhile, natural gas transmission and distribution systems delivered 45.0 million gigajoules of natural gas in Ontario. Of this total, 7.9 million gigajoules were delivered to the residential sector, which accounted for approximately half (49.6%) of deliveries to residential consumers in Canada.

Inventories

In July, opening inventories of natural gas in Canadian facilities totalled 717.1 million gigajoules. During the month, inventories rose 7.3% to close at 769.5 million gigajoules. Inventories increased for the third consecutive month as gas storage facilities continued to build inventories during the warmer months in preparation for increased winter demand.

Chart 2  Chart 2: Canadian monthly natural gas inventories
Canadian monthly natural gas inventories

Exports and imports

Canadian exported 276.2 million gigajoules of natural gas by pipeline to the United States in July and imported 54.8 million gigajoules from the United States.

Chart 3  Chart 3: Canadian imports and exports of natural gas
Canadian imports and exports of natural gas

  Note to readers

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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