Canada - Energy Fast Facts

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  • Approximately 500,000 people in Canada are directly and indirectly employed in the oil and gas sector and 151,800 people are employed in the utility sector, for a total of 651,800 people working in energy-related fields. That is roughly 3.5 per cent of the total labour force.
    Source: Statistics Canada 2009 and Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, 2009
  • Canada is the fifth largest energy producer in the world.
    Source: Canada’s Oil, Natural Gas and Oil Sands – Overview and Outlook, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Washington presentation, February 2009
  • Canada is a net exporter of energy. As at June, 2009, we exported $6,414,000 of energy products and imported $2,701,000 of energy products.
    Source: Statistics Canada 2009
  • Crude Oil
  • Canada is the seventh largest oil producer in the world.
    Source: Canada’s Oil, Natural Gas and Oil Sands – Overview and Outlook, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Washington presentation, February 2009
  • Canada has 5 billion barrels of conventional oil reserves and 173 billion barrels of oil sands reserves for a total of 178 billion barrels, second only to Saudi Arabia.
    Source: Canada’s Oil, Natural Gas and Oil Sands – Overview and Outlook, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Washington presentation, February 2009
  • In Canada in 2008, 1,350,000 barrels per day of crude oil were extracted by conventional production compared to 1,204,115 million barrels per day of crude oil from the oil sands.
    Source: Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers Statistical Handbook, 2009
  • A total of 3,109 oil wells were drilled in Canada in 2009.
    Source: Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors, 2009
  • At 1,931,000 barrels per day, Canada was the largest exporter of crude oil to the United States in 2007.
    Source: Energy Information Administration 2008
  • At 2,493,000 barrels per day, Canada was the largest exporter of crude oil to the United States in 2008.
    Source: Energy Information Administration 2009
  • Payments by the oil industry to Canadian federal and provincial governments have grown from $7.1 billion in 1999 to $24 billion in 2008.
    Source: Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Basic Statistics, 2009