Crude-Refined Petroleum Products (RPP) Flow in Canada shown in PJ 2022

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This diagram presents the flow of crude oil and refined petroleum products (RPPs) in Canada, from production to end use. It illustrates total crude oil production, exports, and imports, as well as the distribution of refined petroleum products across consuming sectors. Approximately 79% of Canada’s crude oil production is exported, while the remainder is refined domestically into RPPs. Canada imports about 42% of the total available crude oil to meet the domestic demand.

The fuel types included in RPPs are motor gasoline, diesel fuel oil, still gas, aviation turbo fuel, heavy fuel oil, petroleum coke, refinery liquid petroleum gasses, light fuel oil, aviation gasoline, and kerosene.

The total supply of refined petroleum products includes not only those derived from crude oil but also products refined from oil sands, as well as those produced from natural gas liquids, natural gas, and renewable sources.

The transportation sector accounts for about 70% of total RPP consumption, followed by the industrial sector at approximately 22%. In addition to final consumption by end-use sectors, a portion of available RPPs is used for producer consumption, electricity and steam generation, non‐energy inputs, and pipeline and natural gas distribution operations.

Input and output data may not balance because the input includes only RESD data and does not capture other external sources used as inputs; these are explained in Appendix A.

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Production: 11124 PJ Crude Oil Production: 11124 Production Import: 1696 PJ Crude Oil Import: 1696 Export: 8779 PJ Crude Oil Export: 8779 Adjustments: 26 PJ Crude Oil Adjustments: 26 Available Crude Oil: 4067 PJ Available Crude Oil 4067 Production by Upgraders and Oilsands: 281 PJ Production by Upgraders and Oilsands 281 NGL Transformed to RPP: 99 PJ NGLNatural Gas Liquids Transformed to RPP 99 Natural Gas Transformed to RPP: 31 PJ Natural Gas Transformed to RPPRefined Petroleum Product 31 Total RPP Production: 115 PJ Renewables Transformed to RPPRefined Petroleum Product 115 Statistical Difference: 57 Total RPP Production: 4649 PJ Total RPPRefined Petroleum Product Production 4649 Total RPP Production Import: 492 PJ RPP Import: 492 Export: 820 PJ RPP Export: 820 Available RPP: 3970 PJ Available RPPRefined Petroleum Product1Input and output data may not balance because the input includes only RESD data and does not capture other external sources used as inputs; these are explained in the Notes tab and Appendix A. 3970 Electricity Generation and and Steam Production: 73 PJ Electricity Generation and Steam Production 73 Producer Consumption: 495 PJ Producer Consumption 495 Non Energy: 397 PJ Non Energy2Non-energy use includes RPP products used as petrochemical feedstock, anodes/cathodes, greases, lubricants, etc. 397 AjustPipeline Transportationements & Natural Gas: 1 PJ Pipeline Transportation & Natural Gas 1 Ajustements: -351 PJ RPP Adjustments: -351 Transportation: 2449 PJ Transportation 2449 Industrial: 746 PJ Industrial 746 Agriculture: 202 PJ Agriculture 202 Commercial & Institutional: 23 PJ Commercial & Institutionnel 23 Residential: 46 PJ Residentiel 46 1: Input and output data may not balance because the input includes only RESD data and does not capture other external sources used as inputs; these are explained in Appendix A. 2: Non-energy use includes RPP products used as petrochemical feedstock, anodes/cathodes, greases, lubricants, etc. SPAD/OEE/NRCan 2025/10/31

Crude-Refined Petroleum Products Flow

  1. Petroleum flow covers crude oil and refined petroleum products.

    Data sources: Table 25-10-0029-01, Supply and Demand of primary and secondary energy in terajoules, annual.

  2. Crude oil flows: Represent production of crude oil, export, import and available crude oil.

    The crude oil is refined into petroleum products encompassing liquified petroleum gasses (LPG’s), still gas, motor gasoline, kerosene and stove oil, diesel fuel oil, light fuel oil, heavy fuel oil, petroleum coke, aviation gasoline, aviation turbo fuel and non-energy products.

  3. The renewable energies covering fuel ethanol and biodiesel fuel oil and renewable diesel are already included in the RESD data under motor gasoline and diesel fuel oil.

  4. The available amount of Refined Petroleum Products is the sum of RPP production, imports, inter product transfers, other adjustments minus stock variation and minus exports.

  5. Producer consumption data comes from NRCan’s industrial model. It is included in the energy consumption by the industrial sector. The difference between RESD and NRCan represents the producer consumption energy use by primary metal manufacturing industry, petroleum refining industry, and mining sector. In NRCan’s data, this portion of producer consumption is included in the industrial sector’s energy use, not reported as producer consumption.

  6. Non-energy use of RPP is not included in the RPP consumption by sectors. It represents RPP products used as petrochemical feedstock, anodes/cathodes, greases, lubricants, etc.

  7. RESD consumption data for RPP by sector is compared to the NRCan’s model results from residential, commercial and institutional, industrial, transportation and agriculture models. The differences between RESD data and NRCan’s model results are due to re-allocation of fuels between sectors in NRCan models.

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