Alberta Crown Oil Sands Rights Auction Prices, 1998 to Present

Statistics for each public offering from 1998 to the last calendar year. The dataset contains average price per hectare totals for the Athabasca, Cold Lake, and Peace River areas. It is provided by the Government of Alberta and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling historical price trends for oil sands land rights based on annual auction data.
• Analyzing regional price differences between the Athabasca, Cold Lake, and Peace River areas.
• Forecasting future land rights valuation based on multi-decade public offering statistics.

Strengths

• Data spans from 1998 to the last calendar year, providing over two decades of historical context.
• Provides statistics for three distinct geographic areas: Athabasca, Cold Lake, and Peace River.

Limitations

• 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

Time Range

1998 to the last calendar year

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 07:03:33.428962; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Athabasca, Cold Lake, and Peace River areas in Alberta, Canada