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Gasoline & Diesel Prices & Zone Map. Disponible en français. Breakdown - Gasoline & Diesel Oil prices - as of the last pricing date (s) – Zone 1.
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Crude Oil
1. Since 2018, Nova Scotia has not produced any crude oil or crude oil equivalents (Figure 1). Between 2000 and 2018, Nova Scotia produced condensate/pentanes plus at the ExxonMobil-operated Point Tupper Fractionator Plant. 2. In 2018, ExxonMobil applied to the province to abandon its fractionator as part of the abandonment of its natural gas producing Sable Offshore Energy Project(Sable Island). Production at Point Tupper ceased by May 2018. 3. BP Canada’s Scotian Basin Exploration Project,...
Refined Petroleum Products
1. Nova Scotia does not have any refineries. Imperial Oil’s Dartmouth refinery closed in 2013. The facility now operates as an oil products terminal. 2. The NuStar terminalin Point Tupper is one of the largest RPP storage and blending facilities in Atlantic Canada. This terminal serves markets in Atlantic Canada and the United States (U.S.) East Coast.
Natural Gas/Natural Gas Liquids
1. Offshore natural gas production was terminated by December 2018. Since then, Nova Scotia has not produced any natural gas. (Figure 1) 2. Natural gas in Nova Scotia was previously produced offshore at Sable Island and Encana’s Deep Panukeproject (Encana renamed itself to Ovintiv in 2020). 3. Sable Island, Canada’s first offshore natural gas project, was commissioned in 1999 and ceased production on 31 December 2018. The plugging and abandonment of all wells was completed in 2019. 4. Deep Pa...
Crude Oil and Liquids
1. There are no crude oil pipelines or crude-by-rail facilities in Nova Scotia.
Natural Gas
1. During production years, Nova Scotia’s offshore natural gas production was transported on the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline (M&NP), which extends through Nova Scotia to the border near St. Stephen, New Brunswick, where gas was exported to serve the Northeast U.S. market (Figure 3). 2. M&NP also imports gas from the U.S. Northeast during times of peak demand. Although historically exports have exceeded imports, this changed in recent years because of declining Nova Scotia offshore producti...
Liquefied Natural Gas
1. Export and import authorizations for three large-scale LNG projects in Nova Scotia have received NEB (now CER) approval: Bear Head LNG Corp., A C LNG, and Pieridae Energy Ltd. Both Bear Head and Pieridae’s Goldboro LNG projects have received regulatory approval from the Nova Scotia Utilities and Review Board(NSUARB) to construct their facilities. 2. To date, none of these projects have started construction. All of these LNG export facilities would be primarily regulated by the NSUARB. 3. P...
Total Energy Consumption
1. End-use demand in Nova Scotia was 175 petajoules (PJ) in 2019. The largest sector for energy demand was transportation at 44% of total demand, followed by residential at 26%, industrial at 16%, and commercial at 14% (Figure 4). Nova Scotia’s total energy demand was the tenth largest in Canada, and the eleventh largest on a per capita basis. 2. RPPs, including gasoline, diesel, and heating oil, were the largest fuel type consumed in Nova Scotia, accounting for 107 PJ, or 61% of total end-us...
Refined Petroleum Products
1. Nova Scotia’s motor gasoline demand in 2019 was 1 420 litres per capita, 12% above the national average of 1 268 litres per capita. 2. Nova Scotia’s diesel demand in 2019 was 715 litres per capita, 16% below the national average of 855 litres per capita. 3. Gasoline consumed in Nova Scotia is primarily imported from refineries in the U.S. East Coast region. 4. RPP prices in Nova Scotia have been regulated by the NSUARB since 2009. The NSUARB sets wholesale prices, minimum and maximum retai...
Natural Gas
1. In 2020, Nova Scotia consumed an average of 84.6 MMcf/d of natural gas, which represented less than 1% of total Canadian demand. 2. Nova Scotia’s largest consuming sector for natural gas was the industrial sector, which consumed 64.3 MMcf/d in 2020. The commercial and residential sectors consumed 19.5 MMcf/d and 0.8 MMcf/d, respectively.
The average price for gasoline over the three-month period from March to May declined by 21.5% as compared to the previous three-month period, fluctuating between a 26.5% decline in Nova Scotia to 17.5% in British Columbia, with the exception of Nunavut, where the price for gasoline had only a minor 1.35% reduction during the same period.
4 days ago · Monthly average retail prices for gasoline and fuel oil for Canada, selected provincial cities, Whitehorse and Yellowknife. Prices are presented for the current month and previous four months. Includes fuel type and the price in cents per litre.
benchmark price for specified petroleum products every Friday. The benchmark price prescribed by the Board is the average of the average of the daily high and low reported product prices (in Canadian cents) since the last benchmark price adjustment for the petroleum product.
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Nova Scotia's year-over-year inflation for fuel oil was 19.3%, the second fastest growth among provinces. Nationally, the fuel oil and other fuels index increased 10.1% compared to May 2023. On a monthly basis, Nova Scotia's fuel oil prices were down 4.9%.
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Mar 16, 2022 · (CBC) Nova Scotians who drive will be painfully familiar with fluctuating prices at the pumps which hit record highs in recent weeks before dipping again. The price spike has been partially...
