Transportation & Downstream

With an estimate of 825 000 kilometres of pipelines in North America, Canada's crude oil and natural gas production is continually flowing from producing fields to markets across the continent. Canada is one of the largest exporters of crude oil to the United States, and the top supplier of natural gas.

Oil in 2010:

• Canada exported 309 224 cubic metres per day of crude oil;
• 31 per cent of exports were light crude oil; the remaining 69 per cent were exports of heavy crude oil;
• Imports into Canada from the U.S. totalled 123 500 cubic metres of crude oil per day.

Natural Gas in 2010:

• Canada produced about 20 per cent of the combined natural gas production of Canada and the U.S.
• Canada exported 253 million cubic metres of natural gas per day.
• Eastern Canada imported 61.9 million cubic metres of natural gas per day.

The Canadian and U.S. natural gas markets operate as one large integrated market. However, for both natural gas and oil, the Eastern Canadian market is more easily served by imports than by Canadian production.