Supply and disposition of refined petroleum
products, December 2016
Released at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time in The Daily, Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Refinery receipts decrease
Canadian refineries received 7.8 million cubic metres of crude oil in December, down 2.0% from the same month
in 2015.
Chart 1
Refinery receipts of crude oil and equivalent products
millions of cubic metres
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Dec.
2014
Dec.
2016
2015
Receipts of domestic crude oil
Imports of crude oil
Source(s): CANSIM table 134-0001.
Meanwhile, refinery receipts of domestic crude oil decreased 3.9% from December 2015 to 5.4 million cubic metres.
Crude oil imports increased 2.5% from December 2015 to 2.4 million cubic metres. Imports represented 31.2% of
total crude oil received at refineries in Canada.
Crude oil inventories held at refineries totalled 3.9 million cubic metres in December, up 2.3% compared with the
same month the previous year.
Crude oil used in refinery production
Total crude oil and equivalent products
December 2015 to 8.1 million cubic metres.
used
in
refinery
production
decreased 2.3%
from
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Chart 2
Crude oil used in refinery production
millions of cubic metres
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Dec.
2014
Dec.
2016
2015
Conventional light crude oil
Conventional heavy crude oil
Synthetic crude oil
Crude bitumen
Source(s): CANSIM table 134-0001.
Year over year, this was the 12th consecutive month where the refinery use of conventional crude oil decreased
and non-conventional crude increased. Both types of non-conventional crude oil increased, with synthetic up 49.3%
and crude bitumen up 9.9%. Convention light crude oil used in refinery production was down 21.4%, while
conventional heavy crude oil was up 12.3% compared with December 2015.
Refinery production and sales up
Refinery production rose 3.5% to 9.7 million cubic metres in December.
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Chart 3
Domestic sales of refined petroleum products, by product
millions of cubic metres
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Dec.
2014
Dec.
2016
2015
Motor gasoline
Diesel fuel oil
Other petroleum products
Source(s): CANSIM table 134-0004.
Domestic sales of refined petroleum products increased 5.1% to 8.9 million cubic metres. Sales of motor gasoline
(+8.5%) and diesel (+6.8%) were up compared with December 2015.
Imports down and exports up
Canada imported 1.0 million cubic metres of refined petroleum products in December, down 10.6% from the same
month in 2015.
Meanwhile, exports of refined petroleum products increased 13.5% to 2.3 million cubic metres.
Inventories decrease
Closing inventories of refined petroleum products held at refineries decreased 12.4% year over year to 7.2 million
cubic metres in December.
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Table 1
Key supply and disposition variables
December
2015
December
2016
cubic metres
Net production of all products
Net production of motor gasoline
Net production of diesel fuel oil
Imports of all products
Imports of motor gasoline
Imports of diesel fuel oil
Closing inventory of all
products1
Closing inventory of motor
gasoline
Closing inventory of diesel fuel oil
Exports of all products
Exports of motor gasoline
Exports of diesel fuel oil
Domestic sales of all products
Domestic sales of motor gasoline
Domestic sales of diesel fuel oil
December
2015 to
December
2016
2015
2016
% change
cubic metres
2015 to 2016
% change
9,383,898
3,779,083
2,523,035
1,069,680
296,392
110,651
9,712,779
3,776,978
2,580,481
956,555
313,077
x
3.5
-0.1
2.3
-10.6
5.6
x
107,326,645
42,998,065
28,468,346
13,010,545
x
x
108,992,138
42,681,134
27,303,793
14,112,173
x
x
1.6
-0.7
-4.1
8.5
x
x
8,262,667
7,238,007
-12.4
8,262,667
7,238,007
-12.4
2,643,499
2,066,397
2,013,781
784,230
256,181
8,455,469
3,658,581
2,300,599
2,522,224
1,801,741
2,284,877
894,835
560,942
8,890,035
3,967,854
2,456,398
-4.6
-12.8
13.5
14.1
119.0
5.1
8.5
6.8
2,643,499
2,066,397
26,815,746
9,734,259
x
104,125,787
44,697,721
29,310,475
2,522,224
1,801,741
25,108,729
9,917,507
x
105,402,948
46,986,029
28,944,244
-4.6
-12.8
-6.4
1.9
x
1.2
5.1
-1.2
x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act
1. Closing inventories for a given year correspond to inventories as of December 31 of that year.
Source(s): CANSIM table 134-0004.
2016 annual review
Non-conventional crude oil use increases
Refineries' use of non-conventional crude oil reached a record high in 2016. Year over year, the use of
non-conventional crude oil increased every month to a total of 30.7 million cubic metres in 2016, up 37.8%
over 2015. Higher production of non-conventional crude oil in Alberta and the Enbridge Line 9 reversal, which
permitted more Western Canadian crude to reach the refineries in Ontario and Quebec, contributed to the gain.
Over this same period, refineries used 14.5% less conventional crude oil.
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Chart 4
Annual refinery receipts of crude oil and equivalent
millions of cubic metres
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
1997
1999
2001
2003
Total domestic crude receipts
2005
2007
2009
2011
2013
2015
Total crude imports
Source(s): CANSIM table 134-0001.
Refinery receipts decrease
Canadian refineries received 93.0 million cubic metres of crude oil in 2016, down 2.5% from 2015.
Refinery receipts of domestic crude oil decreased 5.0% compared with 2015 to 59.2 million cubic metres.
Meanwhile, crude oil imports increased 2.3% from 2015 to 33.8 million cubic metres. Imports represented 36.3% of
total crude oil received at refineries in Canada, up from 34.7% in 2015.
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Chart 5
Key supply and disposition variables
millions of cubic metres
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
2012
2013
2014
2015
Net production
Imports
Exports
Domestic sales
2016
Source(s): CANSIM table 134-0001.
Refinery production and sales up
Refinery production increased 1.6% from 2015 to 109.0 million cubic metres in 2016, while domestic sales
rose 1.2% to 105.4 million cubic metres.
Imports up and exports down
Canada imported 14.1 million cubic metres of refined petroleum products in 2016, up 8.5% from 2015. Meanwhile,
Canadian exports of refined petroleum products declined 6.4% to 25.1 million cubic metres.
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.
Previously, Enbridge's Line 9 pumped up to 240,000 barrels per day (bpd) of imported crude westward from Québec to Sarnia, Ontario.
After a shutdown in December of 2015, flow was reversed allowing up to 300,000 bpd to be pumped eastward from Sarnia to refineries in
Ontario and Quebec.
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Available in CANSIM: tables 134-0001 to 134-0004.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2150.
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