Alberta Gas Storage Records Rare January Net Injection

Gas storage in the Western Canadian province of Alberta, the region in Canada with the greatest amount of storage capacity, recorded a rare net injection on January 12 of 0.3 Bcf (red circle in chart below) thanks to much warmer than average weather and robust wellhead production based on data from RBN’s Canadian NatGas Billboard. This would be only the second time that an injection has taken place for this date (the other in 1995). In the first half of January, on average some of the coldest temperatures that are experienced over the course of the winter heating season, injections into Alberta storage are very rare with only three single day injections occurring since 1994 (including the latest), and a string of days from January 1-8 in 2006 when the province experienced its fourth warmest stretch of temperatures for that eight day span since 1900.