The Oil Drum

The Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) is one of the major gas-producing areas of North America.  It supplies about a quarter of all gas used by the US and Canada, and 98% of Canadian production.  Current production is 450 million cubic metres a day.  To put this into perspective, this volume is close to half a cubic kilometre, and the mass of this much gas is 330,000 tonnes.

The National Energy Board issues reports on various aspects of Canadian energy production and use.  This is the main entry point for natural gas reports on its web site, and this is the entry point for more general energy reports that include sections on natural gas.  It is instructive to study the evolution of scenarios put forward for the future of gas supply from the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin.