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Statistics Canada released August 2026 data on natural-gas supply and disposition on October 23, drawing on the new monthly table 25-10-0086-01. The table reports production, storage, trade and deliveries in several measures, including volume in thousands of cubic metres and energy in thousands of gigajoules. In the national volume series, marketable production was 17.765 billion cubic metres. That is a table observation for August, not a forecast or an annualized run rate.
Canada’s total natural-gas imports were 2.297 billion cubic metres in August, of which 2.287 billion came from the United States and 9.46 million from other countries. Exports totaled 7.556 billion cubic metres: 6.554 billion to the United States and 1.002 billion to other countries. These are reported monthly cross-border volumes. The table does not, in the summary release, explain the destination composition of each flow or identify individual contracts. It also reports trade volumes separately from gas production, so imports and exports should not be read as domestic consumption.
Storage inventories increased during the month. The table records opening inventory of 25.793 billion cubic metres and closing inventory of 28.081 billion cubic metres, a reported inventory change of 2.288 billion cubic metres. It separately lists injections of 2.243 billion cubic metres, withdrawals of 77.6 million cubic metres and storage adjustments of 122.5 million cubic metres. These lines distinguish physical flows from reconciliation adjustments; they should not be collapsed into a single injection figure without retaining the table’s accounting categories.
The same table reports 9.472 billion cubic metres of total deliveries to consumers in August. Industrial consumption was 8.722 billion cubic metres; residential consumption was 363.7 million and commercial consumption 386.9 million. It also lists 5.541 billion cubic metres delivered to natural-gas processing plants and 415.4 million used as pipeline fuel. These categories describe different destinations within supply and disposition. Deliveries to consumers are not identical to production, exports or pipeline receipts, and the values should not be summed without accounting for the table’s supply-disposition structure.
The August release is also part of a statistical redesign. Beginning with January 2026, Statistics Canada replaced several older monthly tables covering natural-gas storage, transmission, distribution and supply-disposition with table 25-10-0086-01. The consolidated table adds receipts from and deliveries to other provinces, imports and exports by destination, deliveries to processing plants, pipeline fuel, metering differences, line losses and adjustments. Older tables remain accessible but are no longer revised, so comparisons across the transition require care about coverage and definitions.
The data describe flows during August, not the date on which they became publicly known; the release date was October 23. Volume values are reported in thousands of cubic metres, with separate energy values, so they should not be confused with energy-equivalent estimates or converted using an unstated gas-quality assumption. Statistics Canada’s table is national and provincial; a Canada total does not show local pipeline constraints, regional storage capacity, or the commercial reason behind an individual shipment.