British Columbia
British Columbia produced 18.4 MMbbl of oil and 2.96 Tcf of natural gas in 2025. 10,364 producing wells tracked, 12 months to Jul 2026.
- Second-largest gas-producing province among the Canadian provinces we publish, 2025.
- 36.3% of the natural gas produced in Canada, 2025.
- Natural gas production rose 4% in 2025 from 2024.
Production
- filling in (est. · unconfirmed) . Hatching marks our estimate of the volume still to be filed. That estimate draws on our own production forecast. This estimate is published unconfirmed. It updates as filings arrive
Still arriving: Aug 2026 <1% filed.
All from what the source published. All held at well grain.
How the volume breaks down
- 100% Reported by the official source by well
Every cubic foot through May 2026 starts from what the official source published for those months. Measured over January 1956 to May 2026.
- filling in (est. · unconfirmed) . Hatching marks our estimate of the volume still to be filed. That estimate draws on our own production forecast. This estimate is published unconfirmed. It updates as filings arrive
Still arriving: Aug 2026 <1% filed.
All from what the source published. All held at well grain.
How the volume breaks down
- 100% Reported by the official source by well
Every barrel through May 2026 starts from what the official source published for those months. Measured over January 1956 to May 2026.
The bands group wells by when they first produced.
About this chart
The stack shows what is holding today's rate up and how much of it is new drilling. In the reported months the bands draw the filings already in. The months still filling in are marked.
Annual table (full history)
| Year | Oil (MMbbl) | Gas produced (Bcf) |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18.4 | 2,959 |
| 2024 | 20.1 | 2,839 |
| 2023 | 16.3 | 2,676 |
| 2022 | 16.9 | 2,548 |
| 2021 | 18.7 | 2,320 |
| 2020 | 20.2 | 2,175 |
| 2019 | 23.2 | 2,077 |
| 2018 | 22.8 | 2,083 |
| 2017 | 15.6 | 1,822 |
| 2016 | 14.4 | 1,807 |
| 2015 | 11.9 | 1,739 |
| 2014 | 11.1 | 1,682 |
| 2013 | 9.4 | 1,580 |
| 2012 | 9.9 | 1,456 |
| 2011 | 9.4 | 1,469 |
| 2010 | 9.8 | 1,235 |
| 2009 | 9.7 | 1,167 |
| 2008 | 10.2 | 1,183 |
| 2007 | 11.2 | 1,153 |
| 2006 | 11.9 | 1,163 |
| 2005 | 12.4 | 1,159 |
| 2004 | 13.9 | 1,132 |
| 2003 | 14.9 | 1,092 |
| 2002 | 16.1 | 1,146 |
| 2001 | 16.9 | 1,063 |
| 2000 | 16.8 | 942 |
| 1999 | 15.3 | 913 |
| 1998 | 17.4 | 897 |
| 1997 | 16.5 | 873 |
| 1996 | 14.3 | 831 |
| 1995 | 13.0 | 801 |
| 1994 | 12.5 | 729 |
| 1993 | 12.7 | 695 |
| 1992 | 13.0 | 619 |
| 1991 | 12.7 | 558 |
| 1990 | 12.5 | 501 |
| 1989 | 12.7 | 499 |
| 1988 | 12.6 | 397 |
| 1987 | 13.3 | 351 |
| 1986 | 12.9 | 304 |
| 1985 | 12.4 | 314 |
| 1984 | 13.3 | 293 |
| 1983 | 13.2 | 279 |
| 1982 | 13.2 | 279 |
| 1981 | 13.0 | 299 |
| 1980 | 12.8 | 319 |
| 1979 | 13.7 | 403 |
| 1978 | 12.8 | 354 |
| 1977 | 14.0 | 392 |
| 1976 | 15.0 | 385 |
| 1975 | 14.4 | 401 |
| 1974 | 18.9 | 414 |
| 1973 | 21.3 | 480 |
| 1972 | 23.9 | 443 |
| 1971 | 25.3 | 357 |
| 1970 | 25.5 | 344 |
| 1969 | 25.4 | 323 |
| 1968 | 22.2 | 279 |
| 1967 | 19.7 | 245 |
| 1966 | 16.7 | 201 |
| 1965 | 13.5 | 172 |
| 1964 | 11.5 | 146 |
| 1963 | 12.5 | 133 |
| 1962 | 8.9 | 128 |
| 1961 | 1.0 | 104 |
| 1960 | 0.9 | 84 |
| 1959 | 0.9 | 68 |
| 1958 | 0.5 | 63 |
| 1957 | 0.3 | 8 |
| 1956 | 0.1 | <1 |
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
Monthly table (last 24 months)
| Month | Oil (Mbbl) | Gas produced (MMcf) |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07 | 1,497.2 | 248,324 |
| 2026-06 | 1,592.0 | 247,733 |
| 2026-05 | 1,641.5 | 249,996 |
| 2026-04 | 1,704.0 | 251,059 |
| 2026-03 | 1,588.6 | 266,700 |
| 2026-02 | 1,472.0 | 251,683 |
| 2026-01 | 1,487.3 | 275,667 |
| 2025-12 | 1,516.1 | 267,024 |
| 2025-11 | 1,463.0 | 262,264 |
| 2025-10 | 1,547.6 | 248,949 |
| 2025-09 | 1,352.4 | 218,092 |
| 2025-08 | 1,586.7 | 235,348 |
| 2025-07 | 1,692.4 | 249,663 |
| 2025-06 | 1,623.0 | 235,483 |
| 2025-05 | 1,455.2 | 249,499 |
| 2025-04 | 1,514.8 | 235,034 |
| 2025-03 | 1,617.9 | 253,940 |
| 2025-02 | 1,412.9 | 239,536 |
| 2025-01 | 1,623.4 | 264,419 |
| 2024-12 | 1,736.3 | 265,942 |
| 2024-11 | 1,634.5 | 250,232 |
| 2024-10 | 1,679.8 | 240,235 |
| 2024-09 | 1,739.5 | 220,267 |
| 2024-08 | 1,732.2 | 234,256 |
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
Source: CommoVision · British Columbia, data through June 2026.
Well map
- Oil 2,812
- Natural gas 19,883
- Undetermined 8,551
About this map
Undetermined means not enough signal to settle it. Producing wells are the ones that reported oil or gas in the 12 months to Jul 2026.
Type curves
Horizontal wells only. Average production per well, for wells grouped by when they first produced.
How these curves are built
Horizontal wells only: 7,506 of the 7,720 wells in these cohorts. Average daily production per well, for wells grouped by when they first produced. Includes every well of the cohort that is old enough at each month. Wells that are shut in or have stopped producing count as zero, so the average reflects the full cohort, not just survivors. Rates are calendar-day (volume ÷ days in month). The cumulative axis accumulates those same monthly averages at the average month length. Months not yet fully reported are excluded. The 2010-2014 curve draws those years as one group. The chart opens on average daily rate against months on production, the rate on a log scale. The view control switches to rate against cumulative production per well, on the same log rate scale, or to cumulative production per well against months on production, on a linear scale. Every view draws the same cohorts from the same production history. Each cohort is solid through the last month all of its wells sit inside fully reported data. Past it the dashed curve carries the same wells forward, on our forecast where a well’s own record ends, for up to five years. A dashed curve runs as far as at least nine in ten of its wells are accounted for. A well that is old enough but shut in still counts, as zero. The measured months are what these wells reported. In the forward months each well counts its own reported figure for each month it has one, our forecast for each month it has only that, and zero for the rest. The forward average counts every well of the cohort. The drawn forecast runs up to five years past the measured months. Line thickness tracks the size of each cohort.
Cohort summary table
| First produced | Wells | Peak oil (bbl/d per well) | Month-12 oil (bbl/d per well) | Cum oil in series (Mbbl per well) | Peak gas (Mcf/d per well) | Month-12 gas (Mcf/d per well) | Cum gas in series (Bcf per well) | Months in series | Wells old enough at last month in series | Forecast months drawn |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 209 | 92.2 | — | 2.8 | 4,238 | — | 0.1 | 1 | 100% | 60 |
| 2025 | 426 | 72.6 | — | 11.9 | 6,342 | — | 1.3 | 8 | 100% | 60 |
| 2024 | 581 | 93.3 | 19.2 | 20.5 | 5,358 | 3,424 | 2.3 | 20 | 100% | 60 |
| 2023 | 443 | 77.2 | 22.9 | 26.3 | 5,766 | 3,888 | 3.3 | 32 | 100% | 60 |
| 2022 | 419 | 55.8 | 14.3 | 17.2 | 6,267 | 3,645 | 3.9 | 44 | 100% | 60 |
| 2021 | 468 | 69.4 | 23.5 | 28.0 | 5,223 | 3,863 | 4.4 | 56 | 100% | 60 |
| 2020 | 342 | 84.7 | 24 | 32.7 | 4,065 | 2,505 | 3.2 | 68 | 100% | 60 |
| 2019 | 362 | 134 | 40.1 | 52.7 | 3,857 | 3,070 | 3.8 | 80 | 100% | 60 |
| 2018 | 507 | 134 | 35.7 | 47.5 | 3,858 | 2,635 | 3.6 | 92 | 100% | 60 |
| 2017 | 511 | 86 | 23.8 | 38.4 | 3,765 | 2,519 | 4.0 | 104 | 100% | 60 |
| 2016 | 335 | 41.3 | 14 | 23.7 | 3,211 | 2,421 | 4.0 | 116 | 100% | 60 |
| 2015 | 556 | 40.7 | 15.1 | 24.4 | 2,771 | 2,188 | 3.7 | 128 | 100% | 60 |
| 2010-2014 | 2,347 | 18.7 | 8.1 | 14.3 | 2,532 | 1,922 | 3.5 | 140 | 100% | 60 |
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
Source: CommoVision · British Columbia type curves, per-well production by first-production cohort.
Top operators in British Columbia, 2025
Top operators in British Columbia, 2025: full table
| Operator | Oil (Mbbl/d, 2025) | Gas produced (MMcf/d, 2025) | Share of output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ovintiv | 14.8 | 1,622.5 | 20.8% |
| Tourmaline Oil Corp | 5.1 | 1,544.9 | 18.3% |
| Petronas | 8.0 | 1,072.4 | 13.5% |
| Canadian Natural Resources | 4.8 | 1,040.2 | 12.5% |
| Arc Resources | 2.9 | 808.2 | 9.6% |
| Shell | 0.0 | 520.3 | 5.9% |
| Pacific Canbriam Energy | 0.0 | 441.4 | 5.0% |
| Murphy Oil Corporation | 0.0 | 440.2 | 5.0% |
| ConocoPhillips Canada Resources | 3.6 | 168.4 | 2.5% |
| Aitken Creek Gas Storage ULC | 0.1 | 124.8 | 1.4% |
| 29 other operators | 11.0 | 324.3 | 5.5% |
Mbbl/d = thousand barrels per day · MMcf/d = million cubic feet per day (units).
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
Recent permitting
About this chart
Approvals of every permit type per month, the 24 months to Apr 2026. The last bar is Apr 2026 through April 20, 2026 (6 so far), drawn hatched. All 128 approved in the 365 days to April 20, 2026 are permits to drill a new well. Permits to drill a new well: 128 in the 365 days to April 20, 2026 and 22 in the last 90 days of that window. How permits are counted.
Most permits 365 days to April 20, 2026
- In British Columbia, 128 well permits were approved in the 365 days to April 20, 2026. Of those, 22 came in the last 90 days of that window. The latest approval on record is dated April 20, 2026.
- All 128 approved in the 365 days to April 20, 2026 are permits to drill a new well. Permits to drill a new well: 128 in the 365 days to April 20, 2026 and 22 in the last 90 days of that window.
Well permits approved per month: full table
| Month | Permits approved |
|---|---|
| Apr 2026 (through April 20, 2026) | 6 |
| Mar 2026 | 9 |
| Feb 2026 | 7 |
| Jan 2026 | 0 |
| Dec 2025 | 22 |
| Nov 2025 | 20 |
| Oct 2025 | 16 |
| Sep 2025 | 0 |
| Aug 2025 | 8 |
| Jul 2025 | 4 |
| Jun 2025 | 16 |
| May 2025 | 20 |
| Apr 2025 | 10 |
| Mar 2025 | 21 |
| Feb 2025 | 27 |
| Jan 2025 | 17 |
| Dec 2024 | 45 |
| Nov 2024 | 22 |
| Oct 2024 | 34 |
| Sep 2024 | 8 |
| Aug 2024 | 1 |
| Jul 2024 | 56 |
| Jun 2024 | 27 |
| May 2024 | 40 |
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
Active drilling rigs
Interactive chart. Focus it and use the left and right arrow keys to read each week, Page Up and Page Down to move a year, Home and End for the ends of the series. The full figures are also in the table below.
- In British Columbia, 14 drilling rigs were active in the week to September 11, 2026 (1 more than a year earlier).
- Since Sep 2016, the weekly count peaked at 56 in Mar 2024.
- The count covers land and inland-water rigs.
Average active rigs per month: full table
| Month | Oil-directed | Gas-directed | Miscellaneous | All rigs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 (through September 11, 2026) | 0 | 14 | 0 | 14 |
| Aug 2026 | 0 | 12.6 | 0 | 12.6 |
| Jul 2026 | 0.2 | 10.5 | 0 | 10.8 |
| Jun 2026 | 1 | 11.2 | 0 | 12.2 |
| May 2026 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 11 |
| Apr 2026 | 0.8 | 11.5 | 0 | 12.2 |
| Mar 2026 | 1 | 12.4 | 0 | 13.4 |
| Feb 2026 | 1 | 13.5 | 0 | 14.5 |
| Jan 2026 | 1 | 15.5 | 0 | 16.5 |
| Dec 2025 | 0.6 | 13.4 | 0 | 14 |
| Nov 2025 | 0 | 12.2 | 0 | 12.2 |
| Oct 2025 | 0 | 11.8 | 0 | 11.8 |
| Sep 2025 | 0 | 12.2 | 0 | 12.2 |
| Aug 2025 | 0 | 28.5 | 0 | 28.5 |
| Jul 2025 | 0 | 30.5 | 0 | 30.5 |
| Jun 2025 | 0 | 26.8 | 0 | 26.8 |
| May 2025 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 29 |
| Apr 2025 | 1 | 29 | 0 | 30 |
| Mar 2025 | 0.4 | 32.8 | 0 | 33.2 |
| Feb 2025 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 37 |
| Jan 2025 | 0 | 38.5 | 0 | 38.5 |
| Dec 2024 | 1.2 | 33.2 | 0 | 34.4 |
| Nov 2024 | 1.5 | 36 | 0 | 37.5 |
| Oct 2024 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 34 |
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
What we cover here
Each row names the grain a region’s production is held at. Where a source publishes at a coarser grain, the page says so.
| Data | Grain | Since | Benchmark |
|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia production | well | 1954-06 | — |
Coverage rows for British Columbia are regenerated at every build from the same catalog of sources the data is built from.
What the data shows
- British Columbia produced 18.4 MMbbl of oil and 2.96 Tcf of natural gas in 2025.
- British Columbia gas production reached its highest level on record in 2025 at 2.96 Tcf.
- 10,364 producing wells tracked, 12 months to Jul 2026.
Get early access
Watch supply move as soon as its sources publish, with forecasts on 1.1+ million producing wells. The portal, an API and MCP access for AI tools open on October 1, 2026.
Data use is subject to our Terms of Service.