Outlook for Western Canadian Gas
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Western Canadian natural gas producers expect to see an increase in demand in the latter half of the year on the back of a project coming online in months. The LNG Canada project is a significant liquified natural gas plant and pipeline emanating from Kitimat, British Columbia.
The facility will allow Western Canadian producers to reach global markets such as Asia, where there is significant demand for natural gas. This is one reason why BMO sees room for valuations to increase in the sector, particularly as supply gets incrementally tighter over the course of the year and into 2025. The positive outlook is a welcome change, but producers will still have to navigate a series of challenges that could constrain their output.
Understanding the market forces at play was the focus of the “Outlook for Western Canadian Gas” panel that I recently hosted in Toronto at the BMO Capital Markets CAPP Energy Symposium, featuring:
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Jamie Heard, Vice President of Capital Markets, Tourmaline Oil Corp.
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Chris Carlsen, President and CEO, Birchcliff Energy
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Jean-Paul Lachance, President and CEO, Peyto Exploration & Development Corp.
Outlook for natural gas
“There’s certainly some pessimistic views on the summer gas price, which we’ll need to get through first,” said Birchcliff’s Chris Carlsen. However, he says the LNG Canada project and a potential increase in demand for power generation in Alberta are encouraging for the sector. With that pick-up still several months away, Birchcliff is deferring some of its capital spending to the second half of the year to ensure any new production can capitalize on higher demand.
Peyto’s Jean-Paul Lachance estimates that LNG Canada will represent 10% of Western Canadian gas once the facility comes on stream. “That’s material,” he said. “Anytime you can put up a market into tension like that, it’s going to be good for the market.” LNG Canada may not have an immediate impact on Peyto’s current output, but it will be constructive to the basin's egress capacity.
What’s more, the development of LNG Canada is important to Western Canadian producers, but other new LNG facilities in the U.S. and Canada can also affect this sector.
As important as it is for the sector to have a global footprint, Tourmaline’s Jamie Heard is also encouraged by the potential for higher demand in North America, with the growing use of heat pumps, electric vehicles and data servers. “In our view, I would agree, we will continue to see weak cash pricing both locally and in the U.S. firming through the summer, and then more rapidly in the fall,” he said.
Expanding LNG
In Canada, other liquified natural gas projects are also in the works. Rockies LNG, a partnership of Western Canadian natural gas producers looking to develop LNG export opportunities, can also change the landscape.
The way these LNG projects are being developed is noteworthy. In the case of Rockies LNG, the project leads have partnered with the Nisga'a Nation, which owns the traditional territory where the floating LNG facility will be located. Nisga’a Nation also has an ownership stake in the project, which is helping the project gain traction and reach new milestones.
“Our partners in Ksi Lisims have a pipeline that’s permitted all the way to the West Coast,” said Carlsen. The project already has an offtake agreement, and it’s working on others. “From a producer point of view, it’s the access to global markets that we’re really after for Canadian producers,” he said.
Constraints on supply
As much as natural gas producers want to get their products to market, there are limitations. As Carlsen explains, finding capacity on the TransCanada Pipelines can take up to four years due to the consultation periods, system modeling, and regulatory process. “All those have added up,” he said, noting that wait time is almost double what it was many years ago.
Finding skilled workers is another challenge that affects all energy produced in Western Canada, causing companies like Birchcliff to carefully pick which projects to develop.
Nevertheless, Birchcliff’s Chris Carlsen is looking forward to a second-half pick-up in energy demand this year. “We see some real positives in terms of the demand-pull that’s coming,” he said.
Outlook for Western Canadian Gas
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Western Canadian natural gas producers expect to see an increase in demand in the latter half of the year on the back of a project coming online in months. The LNG Canada project is a significant liquified natural gas plant and pipeline emanating from Kitimat, British Columbia.
The facility will allow Western Canadian producers to reach global markets such as Asia, where there is significant demand for natural gas. This is one reason why BMO sees room for valuations to increase in the sector, particularly as supply gets incrementally tighter over the course of the year and into 2025. The positive outlook is a welcome change, but producers will still have to navigate a series of challenges that could constrain their output.
Understanding the market forces at play was the focus of the “Outlook for Western Canadian Gas” panel that I recently hosted in Toronto at the BMO Capital Markets CAPP Energy Symposium, featuring:
-
Jamie Heard, Vice President of Capital Markets, Tourmaline Oil Corp.
-
Chris Carlsen, President and CEO, Birchcliff Energy
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Jean-Paul Lachance, President and CEO, Peyto Exploration & Development Corp.
Outlook for natural gas
“There’s certainly some pessimistic views on the summer gas price, which we’ll need to get through first,” said Birchcliff’s Chris Carlsen. However, he says the LNG Canada project and a potential increase in demand for power generation in Alberta are encouraging for the sector. With that pick-up still several months away, Birchcliff is deferring some of its capital spending to the second half of the year to ensure any new production can capitalize on higher demand.
Peyto’s Jean-Paul Lachance estimates that LNG Canada will represent 10% of Western Canadian gas once the facility comes on stream. “That’s material,” he said. “Anytime you can put up a market into tension like that, it’s going to be good for the market.” LNG Canada may not have an immediate impact on Peyto’s current output, but it will be constructive to the basin's egress capacity.
What’s more, the development of LNG Canada is important to Western Canadian producers, but other new LNG facilities in the U.S. and Canada can also affect this sector.
As important as it is for the sector to have a global footprint, Tourmaline’s Jamie Heard is also encouraged by the potential for higher demand in North America, with the growing use of heat pumps, electric vehicles and data servers. “In our view, I would agree, we will continue to see weak cash pricing both locally and in the U.S. firming through the summer, and then more rapidly in the fall,” he said.
Expanding LNG
In Canada, other liquified natural gas projects are also in the works. Rockies LNG, a partnership of Western Canadian natural gas producers looking to develop LNG export opportunities, can also change the landscape.
The way these LNG projects are being developed is noteworthy. In the case of Rockies LNG, the project leads have partnered with the Nisga'a Nation, which owns the traditional territory where the floating LNG facility will be located. Nisga’a Nation also has an ownership stake in the project, which is helping the project gain traction and reach new milestones.
“Our partners in Ksi Lisims have a pipeline that’s permitted all the way to the West Coast,” said Carlsen. The project already has an offtake agreement, and it’s working on others. “From a producer point of view, it’s the access to global markets that we’re really after for Canadian producers,” he said.
Constraints on supply
As much as natural gas producers want to get their products to market, there are limitations. As Carlsen explains, finding capacity on the TransCanada Pipelines can take up to four years due to the consultation periods, system modeling, and regulatory process. “All those have added up,” he said, noting that wait time is almost double what it was many years ago.
Finding skilled workers is another challenge that affects all energy produced in Western Canada, causing companies like Birchcliff to carefully pick which projects to develop.
Nevertheless, Birchcliff’s Chris Carlsen is looking forward to a second-half pick-up in energy demand this year. “We see some real positives in terms of the demand-pull that’s coming,” he said.
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