Almost 2 billion cubic feet per day (bcf/d) of Canada’s natural gas exports — about a quarter — have been restored due to the improving fire situation in gas producing areas of the province..According to US data provider Refinitiv, receipts at export points at the border hit about 8.1 bcf/d on Wednesday after falling as low as 6.4 bcf/d earlier this month, the lowest in more than two years. That’s still below the 8.3 bcf/d Canada exported to the US since the start of the year, however..Canada — overwhelmingly Alberta and BC — supplies about 8% of the gas used in the US and exports about half of 17 bcf/d of production. A smaller but growing amount is exported through US ports in the Gulf of Mexico as liquified natural gas (LNG)..According to Alberta Wildfires, 55 fires were burning as of Thursday morning with 19 considered out of control. That’s down from more than 100 at the May 17 peak. So far this year, 523 fires consumed more than one-million hectares, which is approaching the record of 1.3 million hectares in 1981. .At this time last year, only 450 hectares had been torched. About 7,000 people remain under evacuation order, well down from nearly 30,000 two weeks ago..Firefighting efforts have been helped by cooler, wetter weather in both Alberta and BC and higher relative humidity levels although dry conditions persist in the extreme northwestern part of the province and Northwest Territories..Pipestone Energy became the latest to announce that it was in the process of restoring some 20,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in the Grande Prairie region and said it had avoided significant damage to its facilities..“As a result of the outstanding efforts of local fire authorities and favourable weather conditions in the last few days, the fires that have been impacting a number of our third-party infrastructure and associated producing locations are now under control,” it said in a statement. .“We expect to increase production volumes over the coming days back to full productive capacity.”
