{"id":751933,"date":"2026-06-21T17:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751933\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T17:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:09:11","slug":"national-oil-production-hits-all-time-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751933\/","title":{"rendered":"National Oil Production Hits All Time High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780667413_equinor-oil-rig-stock.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"National Oil Production Hits All Time High\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Equinor)<\/p>\n<p>The federal government says Canada set a new oil production record in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cer-rec.gc.ca\/en\/data-analysis\/energy-markets\/market-snapshots\/2026\/market-snapshot-canada-sets-new-record-in-crude-oil-production-in-2025.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stats<\/a> were released this week. <\/p>\n<p>Canadian production of crude oil averaged 5.35 million barrels per day last year \u2013 up from the previous record of 5.14 million barrels set in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest volumes came from Alberta at 83.8 per cent, trailed by Saskatchewan at 8.2 per cent and Newfoundland and Labrador at 4.5 per cent. <\/p>\n<p>This province\u2019s oil production increased by roughly 14 per cent in 2025 compared to the year before.<\/p>\n<p>The amount of heavy crude extracted off the coast rose from 114,000 to 137,000 barrels per day between 2024 and 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Early estimates for the first three months of 2026 show that average climbing even higher, hitting 164,000 barrels per day.<\/p>\n<p>Light crude also saw a boost, increasing from 94,000 to 102,000 barrels per day over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, Canada has been posting record-breaking production figures since 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Equinor) The federal government says Canada set a new oil production record in 2025. The stats were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-751933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}