This week’s chart maps Canadian oil and natural gas production, domestic consumption, and exports across the provinces. Canada is one of the largest and most stable resource-producing, export-driven economies in the world, and its energy trade is tightly integrated with the United States.
At more than 5 million barrels per day, Canada is the fourth-largest crude oil producer globally, exporting 3.5 million barrels per day primarily to the U.S. It produces 17 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas, ranking sixth worldwide, and exports roughly 40 percent of that volume, nearly all of it to the U.S. Seven Canadian provinces are directly connected to the U.S. natural gas transmission network.
Production is dominated by the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, and Newfoundland.
Despite a plentiful resource endowment, Canada’s export potential is limited by available pipeline capacity and continuing high capacity utilization. Some natural gas is liquefied and moved at small scale by barge and truck. Additional export outlets are under consideration, including eighteen proposed LNG liquefaction plants, though only one—LNG Canada at Kitimat, British Columbia—is scheduled for completion, with commissioning targeted for 2025.
From the EPRINC Chart of the Week archive.