Supply and disposition of refined petroleum products, November 2016

Supply and disposition of refined petroleum
products, November 2016
Released at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time in The Daily, Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Refinery receipts decrease
Canadian refineries received 7.8 million cubic metres of crude oil in November, down 4.9% from the same month
in 2015.
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Refinery receipts of crude oil and equivalent products
millions of cubic metres
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8
7
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0
Nov.
2014
Nov.
2016
2015
Receipts of domestic crude oil
Imports of crude oil
Source(s): CANSIM table 134-0001.
In November, refinery receipts of domestic crude oil decreased 7.9% compared with November 2015 to 5.1 million
cubic metres.
Crude oil imports increased 1.2% compared with November 2015 to 2.8 million
represented 35.3% of total crude oil received at refineries in Canada.
cubic
metres,
and
Crude oil inventories held at refineries totalled 4.2 million cubic metres in November, up 0.2% compared with the
same month the previous year.
Refineries continue to use more non-conventional crude oil
In November, the total volume of crude oil and equivalent products used in refinery production increased 1.0% from
the same month a year earlier to 7.7 million cubic metres. Both types of non-conventional crude oil contributed to
the monthly rise, with synthetic crude oil up 59.4% and crude bitumen up 24.9%.
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Crude oil used in refinery production
millions of cubic metres
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0
Nov.
2014
Nov.
2016
2015
Conventional light crude oil
Conventional heavy crude oil
Synthetic crude oil
Crude bitumen
Source(s): CANSIM table 134-0001.
Conventional light crude oil used in refinery production was down 18.9% from November 2015, while conventional
heavy crude oil was up 1.9%. Year over year, this was the 11th consecutive month where refinery use of
conventional crude oil decreased and that of non-conventional crude oil increased.
Refinery production and sales up
Year over year, refinery production increased 1.7% to 8.8 million cubic metres in November.
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Domestic sales of refined petroleum products, by product
millions of cubic metres
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Nov.
2014
Nov.
2016
2015
Motor gasoline
Diesel fuel oil
Other petroleum products
Source(s): CANSIM table 134-0004.
Domestic sales of refined petroleum products increased 2.9% to 8.6 million cubic metres in November. Sales of
motor gasoline rose 4.8% compared with November 2015 and diesel sales were up 8.3%.
Imports down and exports up
Canada imported 1.1 million cubic metres of refined petroleum products in November, down 5.2% from the same
month in 2015.
Over the same period, exports of refined petroleum products increased 22.3% to 1.8 million cubic metres.
Inventories decrease
Closing inventories of refined petroleum products held at refineries decreased 0.3% year over year to 7.5 million
cubic metres in November.
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Table 1
Supply and disposition, selected variables
November
2015
November
2016
cubic metres
November 2015 to
November 2016
% change
Net production of all products
Motor gasoline
Diesel fuel oil
8 599 748
3 313 470
2 288 218
8 750 150
3 544 858
2 472 803
1.7
7.0
8.1
Imports of all products
Motor gasoline
Diesel fuel oil
1 171 832
x
272 083
1 110 682
428 123
124 363
-5.2
x
-54.3
Closing inventory of all products
Motor gasoline
Diesel fuel oil
7 525 462
2 381 908
1 799 856
7 502 018
2 651 073
1 783 658
-0.3
11.3
-0.9
Exports of all products
Motor gasoline
Diesel fuel oil
1 459 445
486 590
188 661
1 785 471
649 284
375 060
22.3
33.4
98.8
Domestic sales of all products
Motor gasoline
Diesel fuel oil
8 363 009
3 619 722
2 261 710
8 604 635
3 792 298
2 450 047
2.9
4.8
8.3
x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act
Source(s): CANSIM table 134-0004.
Note to readers
The Monthly Refined Petroleum Products survey collects data on the activities of every Canadian refinery involved in the production of
refined petroleum products (North American Industry Classification System [NAICS] 324000) and of selected major distributors of these
products (NAICS 412000).
Domestic sales include all sales by reporting companies, excluding exports and sales to other reporting companies.
Refinery receipts of crude oil and equivalent hydrocarbons (condensates and pentanes plus) from domestic and foreign sources are for
refinery consumption or storage.
Available in CANSIM: tables 134-0001 to 134-0004.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2150.
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