Volumetrics

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Jurisdiction	Topic Area	Date – Last Published	Title	Purpose

AB	Volumetrics	Aug 8/24	Fuel Gas Purchased from Gas Co-Ops Associated with Gas Alberta Inc.	To remind AB stakeholders how to correctly report gas purchased from co-ops associated with Gas Alberta Inc.
AB/SK	Volumetrics	June 5/24	AB & SK Supplemental Volumetric Information Requirements	To notify AB and SK stakeholders that effective June 6, 2024. Petrinex has implemented additional supplemental volumetric information requirements in cases where there is a receipt of oil/condensate from an in-province miscellaneous facility (in Saskatchewan SKMC or in Alberta ABMC) or an unlinked well.
AB	Volumetrics	June 5/24	AER Thermal In Situ Solvent Reporting	To notify AB stakeholders that effective June 6, 2024, new thermal in situ reporting functionality to AB heavy oil operators will come into effect and allow operators to trace underground inventories of injected and recovered solvent at subtype 355 and 345 batteries and associated subtype 506 injection facilities.
AB	Volumetrics	Oct 2/24 Updated	Reporting APMC Volumes at Out-of-Province Facilities	To inform Alberta operators who deliver crown royalty (APMC) volumes to out-of-province (BC/SK) facilities of a change to the reporting requirements
AB	Volumetrics	Mar 6/24	Alberta Brine Hosted Minerals Reporting	To notify AB stakeholders of the addition of brine-hosted merals reporting functionality available in Petrinex/
AB	Volumetrics	Jan 3/24	New Edits to Prevent Gas Production Reporting at Injection/Disposal Facilities in AB	To inform AB users that edits are in place in Petrinex to prevent the reporting of gas production at all injection/disposal facilities.
AB/SK/BC/MB	Volumetrics/Reports & Queries	Oct 16/23	Volumetric Reports	This tip outlines the purpose of each of the various volumetric reports available in Petrinex.
AB/SK/BC/MB	Volumetrics/Reports & Queries/Oil Sands/Waste Plants	Oct 16/23	Non-Compliance Reports	This tip outlines the purpose of each of the non-compliance reports available in Petrinex.
AB/SK/BC/MB	Volumetrics	Aug 30/23	Access to Gross volumetric Data (Volumetric Security Blanket)	This tip describes the Petrinex "Volumetric Security Blanket" to provide an understanding as to what data is available to non-operators within Petrinex and under the public data access functionality.
AB	Volumetrics	Aug 15/23 (updated)	Alberta Geothermal Acitvity Reporting Functionality	To notify AB users of geothermal reporting functionality in Petrinex.
AB	Volumetrics	June 1/23 (Updated)	AER Volumetric Deficiency Invoice Review Process	To inform AB Facility Operators of a online process for the AER Volumetric Deficiency Invoice Review.
SK	Volumetrics	Jan 5/23	Generate VME001 and VME005 Errors When a Facility and Wells are Missing for Current Month	To notify users that effective Jan 20/23 Petrinex will generate both VME001 and VME005 errors when both the facility and linked wells are active an no volumetric activities have been submitted for a production month.
AB/SK/BC/MB	Volumetrics/ Reports & Queries	Aug 23/22 Updated	Prior Period Volumetric Non-Compliance Update	To advise Petrinex users of a change made effective Aug 3/22 to the Volumetric Non-Compliance reports in Petrinex.
AB/SK/BC/MB	Volumetrics	Apr 19/22	New Miscellaneous ID for Crude-by-Rail Reporting	To advise all users that a new Miscellaneous Railcar ID for Mexico (MX RC) is available for volumetric reporting of crude by rail.
MB	Volumetrics	Apr 1/22	Manitoba Average Well Head Pressure Reporting	To notify MB injection facility operators of requirements to report average well head pressure.
AB	Volumetrics	Feb 1/22	AB Condensate Proration Factors Required at AER Battery Subtypes 362, 364, 367	To remind stakeholders that proration factors for all products (including condensate) must be reported as part of the monthly volumetric submissions in Petrinex for facility subtypes 362, 364 and 367.
AB	Volumetrics	Sept 20/21 Updated	Alberta Helium Functionality	To notify stakeholders of helium reporting functionality available in Petrinex for AB.
SK	Volumetrics/ Valuation	Jan 28/20 Updated	PURREC at WP and CT and Limitation of "WO"	To inform Industry of changes effective Jan 2020 for use of PURREC at WP and CT, and the limitation of "WO."
SK	Volumetrics	Dec 23/19	Changes to Fuel, Flare and Vent Definitions in Saskatchewan	To inform SK operators that new definitions of fuel, flare and vent that will come into effect on Jan 1, 2020.
AB	Volumetrics	Dec 20/19 Updated	ISC and Energy Requirements for Custom Treaters, Miscellaneous and "Other" facillities	Outlines the volumetric submission requirements for In-Stream Components (ISCs) and Energy at certain facility types. Update: To include ISC requirements for cross-border facilities.
BC	Volumetrics	Nov 19/19	Changes to Fuel, Flare and Vent BCOGC Definitions	To notify BC operators that new definitions of fuel, flare and vent will come into effect on Jan 1, 2020.
SK	Volumetrics	Sept 17/19	Recovered Crude Oil (RCO) Tax on Purchase Dispositions (PURDISP)	To inform industry that when a PURDISP is reported an an IF, the RTP is currently not being assessed a recovered crude oil (RCO) tax. The Ministry Energy and Resources is working on making the necessary system changes in order to assess the appropriate RCO tax.
AB	Volumetrics	July 31/19	Changes to Fuel, flare and Vent AER Definitions	To notify operators that new definitions of fuel, flare and vent will come into effect on January 1, 2020. Operators are strongly encouraged to adopt these new definition changes prior to that date so they can test their systems and be prepared for them when this reporting becomes mandatory.
AB/SK/BC	Volumetric	June 12/19	Flared/Incinerated Acid Gas to be Reported in Petrines as FLARE/ACGAS	To notify operators that Petrinex functionality has been changed effective May 2019 production month to allow the reporting of acid gas that has been flared or incinerated as FLARE/ACGAS for AB and SK gas plants. This functionality has been effective since Nov/18 in BC.
AB	Volumetrics	Nov 2/18	New Edits in Petrinex to Prevent Fuel, Flare and Vent Reported at Subtype 343 Crude Bitumen Administrative Grouping Batteries	To notify operations that Petrinex edits have been put in place to prevent the reporting of fuel, flare and vent at the Facility level for Battery Subtype 343 (Crude Bitumen Administrative Grouping.
AB	Volumetrics	Oct 11/18	New Waste Location Description for Oilfield Spill Material During Transportation	To notify stakeholders of the new waste location ID description created for oilfield spill material location released during transportation.
SK	Volumetrics	July 6/18 Updated	Removal of INVADJ activity for Volumetric Reporting	To inform Industry that the volumetric reporting activity, inventory adjustment will no longer be allowed for most facilities. This update provides clarification on the exceptions.
SK	Monthly Reporting - Volumetrics	Aug 17/16	Introduction of the VME0010 Error for the Province of Saskatchewan	To inform Industry that ER has implemented volumetric non-compliance error VME0010. This error is similar to the VME0010 error that currently exists in Alberta and applies to specific facility subtypes.
AB	Monthly Reporting - Volumetrics	June 8/15 Updated	Proper Use of PURDISP and PURREC	Describes a clarification to the definition of PURDISP as defined by the DOE and a change to the proper use of PURDISP and PURREC when reporting volumetrics in Alberta.
SK	Monthly Reporting - Volumetrics	Sept 24/14	Reminder: New Non-Compliance Penalty Waiver Process Effective September 24, 2014	To explain that Saskatchewan's new non-compliance penalty waiver application process, implemented September 24, 2014, is now in effect.