Pipeline transportation of oil and other liquid
petroleum products, November 2016
Released at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time in The Daily, Friday, January 20, 2017
Opening inventories of crude oil and equivalent products held in pipelines and terminals totalled 12.2 million cubic
metres in November.
Table 1
Pipeline transportation of crude oil and equivalent products
June
2016
July
2016
August
2016
September
2016
October
2016
November
2016
11 738 557
20 770 012
2 153 318
13 770 623
7 074 913
12 162 006
12 162 006
21 861 363
1 984 615
14 451 087
7 138 364
12 294 097
cubic metres
Opening inventories
Receipts from fields and plants
Imports
Exports
Deliveries to refineries
Closing inventories
11 111 392
16 181 461
2 307 328
12 258 763
6 420 686
11 411 203
11 411 203
19 455 177
2 234 024
13 022 157
8 060 654
12 024 092
12 024 092
20 659 254
1 998 086
14 380 773
8 028 636
11 631 895
11 631 895
20 774 149
2 045 244
13 712 941
6 958 937
11 738 557
Source(s): CANSIM table 133-0006.
Receipts from fields up
The amount of crude oil and equivalent products that oil pipelines received from Canadian fields and plants
was 21.9 million cubic metres in November. Of this volume, 97% (or more than 19 out of every 20 barrels) came
from Alberta and Saskatchewan. An additional 2.0 million cubic metres was imported from the United States.
Exports up
Oil pipelines exported 14.5 million cubic metres of crude oil and equivalent products to the United States in
November. Meanwhile, 7.1 million cubic metres was sent to Canadian refineries, with Ontario and Quebec refineries
receiving 39% of these deliveries.
In November, closing inventories of crude oil and equivalent products totalled 12.3 million cubic metres.
The Daily, Friday, January 20, 2017
Note to readers
Data in this release are not seasonally adjusted.
Changes were made to the content and methodology of the Monthly Oil and Other Liquid Petroleum Products Pipeline Survey in
March 2016.
For more information, consult the methodology document Monthly Oil and Other Liquid Petroleum Products Pipeline Survey.
These
changes
resulted
in
the
creation
of
tables 133-0001, 133-0002, 133-0003, 133-0004 and 133-0005.
CANSIM
table 133-0006,
which
replaced
CANSIM
While these tables will remain available for reference, users should exercise caution when comparing data from these tables with data
from the new table.
Definitions
Crude oil and equivalent products include the following liquid hydrocarbons: crude oil, condensate, pentanes plus, and synthetic crude
oil.
Inventories include inventories held in pipelines, tanks and terminals, but exclude inventories held in field batteries and inventories held
in the United States.
Receipts from fields and plants include receipts from batteries and terminals associated with field separators and field upgraders, and
receipts from gas processing plants and extraction plants. Receipts from fractionation plants are excluded.
Imports include receipts of foreign-produced oil, condensate, natural gas liquids and petroleum products destined for use in Canada.
Exports include deliveries of Canadian-produced oil, condensate, natural gas liquids and petroleum products destined for use outside of
Canada.
Deliveries to refineries include deliveries to upgrader/refinery complexes.
Available in CANSIM: table 133-0006.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2148.
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