Governments and companies across Canada continue to heavily invest in technological innovation and emissions reduction programs to meet interim and longer-dated targets. The federal government’s ambitious 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan aims to cut oil and gas emissions by 42% below 2019 levels in the next seven years, and methane emissions by 75% below 2012 levels, to ultimately reach net zero by 2050.
When normalizing for production, Enverus Intelligence® | Research (EIR) sees modest evidence of emission reduction regulations impacting the upstream and midstream oil and gas sector in Western Canada in recent years. Average emission intensities across Alberta, B.C. and Saskatchewan (excluding refineries and oil sands mining operations) decreased from 33.3 CO2e/boe to 31.7 CO2e/boe between January 2021 and April 2023, while absolute emissions dropped by 6% (Figure 1). EIR believes absolute emissions targets are most effective when paired with emission intensity targets for net zero to be a realistic possibility.
EIR’s estimates are derived from monthly facility-level fuel, flare and vent volumes reported to Petrinex, which are then converted to gross operated emissions in our platform and combined with other Enverus data sources.
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