Industrial Sector – Aggregated Industries
Alberta1
Table 6: Petroleum Refining Secondary Energy Use and GHG Emissions
  2000   2018 2019 2020 2021
Total Petroleum Refining Energy Use (PJ) 71.5   83.4 83.7 76.7 67.8

Energy Use by Energy Source (PJ)
Electricity X   6.6 7.1 6.9 8.0
Natural Gas X   16.0 17.6 16.6 15.8
Diesel Fuel Oil, Light Fuel Oil and Kerosene 0.6   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Heavy Fuel Oil 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Still Gas and Petroleum Coke 48.2   60.3 58.9 53.2 44.0
LPG and Gas Plant NGL 0.0   0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0
Coal 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Coke and Coke Oven Gas 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Wood Waste and Pulping Liquor 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Other2 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shares (%)
Electricity X   8.0 8.5 9.0 11.8
Natural Gas X   19.1 21.1 21.6 23.3
Diesel Fuel Oil, Light Fuel Oil and Kerosene 0.8   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Heavy Fuel Oil 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Still Gas and Petroleum Coke 67.4   72.3 70.4 69.4 64.8
LPG and Gas Plant NGL 0.0   0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0
Coal 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Coke and Coke Oven Gas 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Wood Waste and Pulping Liquor 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Other2 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total Petroleum Refining GHG Emissions Excluding Electricity (Mt of CO2e) 3.6   4.2 4.3 3.7 3.2

GHG Emissions by Energy Source (Mt of CO2e)
Electricity –   – – – –
Natural Gas X   0.8 0.9 0.8 0.8
Diesel Fuel Oil, Light Fuel Oil and Kerosene 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Heavy Fuel Oil 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Still Gas and Petroleum Coke 2.6   3.3 3.4 2.9 2.4
LPG and Gas Plant NGL 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Coal 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Coke and Coke Oven Gas 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Wood Waste and Pulping Liquor 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Other2 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
GHG Intensity (tonne/TJ) 50.0   50.0 51.4 48.8 47.5

Footnotes:

1) Data on GHG emissions are presented excluding GHG emissions related to electricity production.
2) “Other” includes steam and waste fuels from the cement industry.

X - Denotes data that has been suppressed due to confidentiality.