Natural Gas Flow in Canada shown in PJ 2022

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This diagram illustrates the flow of natural gas in Canada, from extraction to end use. It depicts the volume of raw natural gas produced at the wellhead and the quantity of marketable natural gas available after processing and refining. The diagram also shows the trade balance, highlighting imports and exports of marketable natural gas, as well as the amount available for domestic consumption.

Domestically, natural gas is distributed across the industrial, residential, commercial and institutional, agricultural, and transportation sectors. The industrial sector accounts for approximately 57% of total natural gas consumption, while the residential shares 22% and commercial and institutional sector represents about 20% of total use. The remaining share is consumed by the agricultural (1.6%) and transportation (0.2%) sectors.

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 Production 7424 4145 Gross NG Production: 8561 PJ Gross NGNatural Gas Production: 8561 Production: 7424 PJ Losses during processing: 1137 PJ Losses during processing 1137 Available NG: 4983 PJ Available NG1Input 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. 4983 Losses during processing: 845 PJ Electricity Generation and Steam production 845 Producer consumption: 649 PJ Producer consumption 649 Non‐Energy: 138 PJ Non‐Energy 138 Transformed to RPP: 31 PJ Transformed to RPP 31 Pipeline Transportation and Natural Gas Distribution: 197 PJ Pipeline Transportation and Natural Gas Distribution 197 Export: 3279 PJ Export 3279 Import: 1194 PJ Import 1194 Adjustments: 356 PJ Adjustments: 356 Industrial: 1741 PJ Industrial 1741 Residential: 673 PJ Residential 673 Commercial & Institutional: 609 PJ Commercial & Institutional 609 Agriculture: 50 PJ Agriculture 50 Transportation: 5 PJ Transportation 5 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. SPAD/OEE/NRCan 2025/10/31

Natural Gas Flow

Raw natural gas is the gross withdrawals from the natural gas well. The raw natural gas is processed into marketable natural gas by removing water, NGLs and impurities. RESD table reports marketable natural gas data.

The raw natural gas production is the value for gross withdrawals from the source table: 25-10-0055-01, Supply and disposition of natural gas, monthly, Canada, province and territory. Other flows represent data for-marketable natural gas.

  1. The available marketable natural gas is the sum of production, imports, inter-product transfers, other adjustments minus stock variation and minus exports. It represents the total amount available for domestic consumption.

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

  2. The available natural gas flows into the consumption sectors, i.e., industrial, residential, commercial, agriculture and transportation.

    The data for natural gas consumption by sectors comes from the RESD data which is fed into NRCan’s Energy Use Data Handbook.

  3. Natural gas is also used as producer consumption and non-energy use. Natural gas is also transformed to refined petroleum products and steam.

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