The National Energy Board (Board) and British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources released, on 31 March 2006, an Energy Market Assessment entitled Northeast British Columbia's Ultimate Potential for Conventional Natural Gas which provides the current estimates of discovered and undiscovered gas resources for the British Columbia portion of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. These estimates may be updated in the future as the Board and Ministry review developments in the area. In addition, the report discusses qualitatively the potential for additional conventional gas resources in other offshore and onshore basins in the province and unconventional gas resources in all basins in the province.

NOTE: The Appendices below are only available on the Web site.

Index

Report

Northeast British Columbia's Ultimate Potential for Conventional Natural Gas (Appendices 1, 2 and 3 are included in the report) - March 2006 [PDF: 6141 KB]
News Release [HTML]
Fact Sheet [HTML]

Appendices

Appendix 4 - Estimates of Discovered and Undiscovered Resources [PDF: 61 KB]
Appendix 5 - @Risk Output Tables [EXCEL: 119 KB]
Appendix 6 - Play Endowment Charts [PDF: 161 KB]
Appendix 7 - Graphical Outputs
- All files (218 files) [ZIP: 1780 KB]
- Cumulative Gas in Place (GIP) vs Tracts - 42 files [ZIP: 169 KB]
- Drilling Success vs Time - 44 files [ZIP: 400 KB]
- Gas in Place (GIP) per Tract vs Time - 44 files [ZIP: 485 KB]
- Gas in Place (GIP) per Tract vs Tract Count - 44 files [ZIP: 234 KB]
- Log Cumulative Gas in Place (GIP) per Tract vs Log Cumulative Tracts - 44 files [ZIP: 490 KB]

For a Copy of the Companion Play Atlas Document:

BC Ministry web site address:

Programs & Services: Conventional Oil and Gas
Programs & Services: Northeastern B.C. Basin
Programs & Services: Technical Data and Reports
http://www.em.gov.bc.ca/dl/oilgas/COG/nebc_atlas.pdf

General Information:

Kristen Higgins (khiggins@neb-one.gc.ca)
Communications Officer
Telephone: 403-299-3371
Telephone (toll free): 1-800-899-1265
Telecopier: 403-292-5503
Telecopier (toll free): 1-877-288-8803
TTY (teletype): 1-800-632-1663

Technical Information:

Jim Davidson (jdavidson@neb-one.gc.ca)
Project Manager
Telephone: 403-299-3135
Telephone (toll free): 1-800-899-1265
Telecopier: 403-292-5503
Telecopier (toll free): 1-877-288-8803
TTY (teletype): 1-800-632-1663

For a hard copy of Northeast British Columbia's Ultimate Potential for Conventional Natural Gas:

National Energy Board
publications@neb-one.gc.ca
Ground Floor
444 Seventh Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta
T2P 0X8
Telephone: 403-299-3562
Telephone (toll free): 1-800-899-1265
Telecopier: 403-292-5576
Telecopier (toll free): 1-877-288-8803
TTY (teletype): 1-800-632-1663