By Township Canada
Introducing the Energy Bundle — AER Wells with Lifecycle, Pipelines, Facilities, and Treaty Boundaries on the DLS Grid
A new Business add-on that puts the full Alberta energy data stack on one map: 672K wells with orphan/abandoned flags, the AER pipeline network, 8-category facilities, and treaty boundaries.
A pipeline integrity analyst in Calgary opens five tools to plan a single inspection campaign: the AER GeoView portal for licensed pipeline segments, the AER ST37 directives portal for the wells the line connects, the Orphan Well Association inventory for closure-funded sites, the Petrinex facility lookup for batteries and gas plants, and an internal GIS to overlay treaty geography. Each tool returns part of the picture; the operator stitches the rest manually.
Township Canada's new Energy Bundle puts all of that on one map, layered against the DLS grid that every legal land description in Alberta already references.
What's in the bundle
The Energy Bundle is a Business-plan add-on at $100 CAD/seat/month that unlocks five new data layers and one API surface on top of the standard Township Canada feature set:
- AER Wells with full lifecycle — Active, Suspended, Abandoned, Reclaimed, plus the orphan flag (where the Orphan Well Association is funding closure rather than the original licensee).
- AER Pipelines — every licensed pipeline segment, rendered as a line layer with mid-point labels. Tile coalescing handles the southern-Alberta density.
- AER Facilities (ST102) — collapsed from 40+ Petrinex sub-codes into eight customer-facing buckets: battery, gas plant, compressor, disposal, custom treating, terminal, water source, other.
- Treaty Boundaries — Treaties 4, 6, 7, 8, and 10 rendered as polygons at low zoom, surfaced as a flag on every parcel report.
- BA licensee snapshot API — per-operator counts (total / active / suspended / abandoned / orphan / reclamation-certified). Materialized view for fast diligence dashboards.
Plus a sixth feature that's actually been there all along: the CCS / pore space tenure layers shipped earlier — pore space rights, project boundaries, injection wells, geothermal tenure — are part of the Energy Bundle entitlement.
Why bundle these together
The five layers are tied at the data level. A reactivated well needs a tie-in pipeline, which needs a destination facility, which sits inside a treaty area. An operator evaluating an acquisition target needs the per-BA rollup of all five. A pipeline integrity team prioritizing inspection needs the lines geometry, the connected wells, and the surrounding facilities in a single view. Splitting the layers across separate products would force operators back into the cross-portal workflow the bundle exists to replace.
Pricing math
Business is $40 CAD/month. The Energy Bundle add-on is $100/month on top, for a total of $140/seat/month. For comparison: standalone AER tools that come closest to this scope (geoSCOUT, OilTrails, Petrinex enterprise APIs) sit at five-figure annual contracts. Township Canada's pricing reflects what an individual analyst or a small team can justify on a corporate card.
The 10 existing Township Canada energy customers get the Energy Bundle through a trial promo configured in Stripe — operations runbook handles the distribution.
Who this is for
- Oil and gas operators planning new wells, reactivations, or tie-ins. See Township Canada for Oil and Gas.
- CCS and geothermal developers scoping pore space tenure submissions. See Township Canada for CCS Developers.
- Pipeline integrity, closure obligation, and surface-rights teams who need lifecycle status across the AER inventory.
- M&A diligence teams evaluating operator portfolios via the BA snapshot API.
How to subscribe
The "Add Energy Bundle" card appears on /app/account for any customer on the Business plan. One click opens Stripe Checkout for the $100/month add-on. Webhook activation is instant — the new layers unlock without re-login.
For non-Business customers, the upgrade path is Business first, then add the bundle. The customer portal flow is in docs/features/energy-bundle-cta.md.
What's still roadmapped
- Indigenous consultation overlay (beyond treaty boundaries) — reserve lands, provincial consultation databases. Pending source selection and legal sign-off. See the spec.
- Crown dispositions overlay (AB) — surface and subsurface tenure, free-data path via AB Energy GeoView. See the spec.
- SK and BC equivalents — the underlying datasets exist; the ingest pipelines follow once the AB experience proves out.