Historical Royalty Revenue from Alberta's Energy Sector, 1970-Present

1970 to present annual royalty revenue data from Alberta's energy sector, updated yearly. The report is prepared by Energy's Strategic Policy area and includes revenue from natural gas, conventional oil, oil sands, coal, bonuses, sales of crown leases, rentals, and fees. The data is summary and unaudited, and final numbers may change.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in government revenue from natural gas and by-products based on the reported revenue source.
• Model fiscal impacts of oil sands production based on the oil sands royalty revenue.
• Compare historical contributions of conventional oil versus coal royalties based on the listed revenue sources.
• Track annual changes in revenue from crown lease sales and bonuses based on the reported categories.

Strengths

• Time series spans from 1970 to the present, providing over 50 years of historical data.
• Updated annually with information from the previous year, offering recent data.
• Includes multiple distinct revenue sources: natural gas, conventional oil, oil sands, coal, bonuses, sales, rentals, and fees.

Limitations

• Data is unaudited summary information and may change when final actual resources are reported.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government of Alberta | Gouvernement de l'Alberta

Collection Method

Report prepared by Energy's Strategic Policy area.

Time Range

1970 to present

Freshness

Updated annually; last metadata update 2026-04-17.

Geography

Alberta, Canada