[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-\u002Fblog\u002Fmulti-province-energy-map-western-canada":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":266,"cover":267,"date":268,"description":269,"extension":270,"meta":271,"navigation":273,"path":274,"seo":275,"stem":276,"tags":277,"__hash__":287},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fmulti-province-energy-map-western-canada.md","One Energy Layer Panel Across Four Provinces — Unified, Filterable, and Less Cluttered","Township Canada",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":258},"minimark",[10,14,53,58,92,101,104,113,117,120,123,143,149,157,161,164,193,196,203,207,221,241],[11,12,13],"p",{},"A landman working an AB–SK border pipeline opens the energy layer panel and is presented with twenty checkboxes: Wells (AB), Wells (SK), Wells (BC), Wells (MB), Pipelines (AB), Pipelines (SK), and on down the list. To see every licensed well within five kilometres of a crossing at the 4th meridian, four boxes get clicked. Pipelines, another three. Facilities, another three. Three quarters of the panel is open before the map renders the picture.",[11,15,16,17,21,22,25,26,29,30,33,34,37,38,41,42,41,45,48,49,52],{},"That is the friction this release removes. The energy catalog now ships ",[18,19,20],"strong",{},"12 unified layers"," instead of 20 per-province entries. One ",[18,23,24],{},"Wells"," layer covers AB, SK, BC, and MB. One ",[18,27,28],{},"Pipelines"," layer covers AB, SK, and BC. One ",[18,31,32],{},"Facilities"," layer the same. One ",[18,35,36],{},"Fields & Pools"," layer covers AB, SK, BC, and MB. Each layer carries its own filter sections — ",[18,39,40],{},"Province",", ",[18,43,44],{},"Product \u002F Substance",[18,46,47],{},"Type",", and ",[18,50,51],{},"Status"," — so a single toggle covers the four-province picture and the filters narrow it.",[54,55,57],"h2",{"id":56},"how-the-unified-layers-actually-work","How the unified layers actually work",[11,59,60,61,41,65,41,68,41,71,74,75,78,79,41,82,41,85,41,88,91],{},"Under the hood, every unified layer is a single PMTiles archive — ",[62,63,64],"code",{},"wells.pmtiles",[62,66,67],{},"pipelines.pmtiles",[62,69,70],{},"facilities.pmtiles",[62,72,73],{},"og_fields.pmtiles"," — built from each province's regulatory feed (AER ST37\u002FST76\u002FST102 for Alberta, the Petrinex extract for Saskatchewan, the BC Energy Regulator dataset for BC, and the Manitoba provincial registry for MB wells). The transform pipeline normalizes each feature into a small set of ",[62,76,77],{},"*_class"," properties: ",[62,80,81],{},"province_class",[62,83,84],{},"substance_class",[62,86,87],{},"type_class",[62,89,90],{},"status_class",". Those are the chips you see in the filter sections — the same vocabulary across provinces, regardless of which acronym the source system used.",[11,93,94,95,100],{},"The benefit shows up in places that used to be per-province too. Popups, the parcel report card, the energy index, and the operator view all read against the unified layer IDs. Clicking a Husky-operated well in the Lloydminster heavy-oil belt and a Tourmaline-operated well in the Montney both open a popup with the same fields in the same order. The ",[96,97,99],"a",{"href":98},"\u002Foil-and-gas\u002Foperators","oil and gas operator pages"," read from the same source, so a single operator query returns wells across all four provinces in one list instead of four.",[11,102,103],{},"CCS, geothermal, tenure, and activity layers are unchanged — those layers are already cross-province or single-jurisdiction by design.",[105,106,107],"blockquote",{},[11,108,109,112],{},[18,110,111],{},"📸 Screenshot placeholder:"," Layer panel open in the Township Canada map at app.townshipcanada.com — show the new Energy section with four unified entries (Wells, Pipelines, Facilities, Fields & Pools), the Wells entry expanded showing the Province filter with all four chips (AB \u002F SK \u002F BC \u002F MB) active, and the Substance, Type, and Status sections collapsed below. Capture at zoom 6 centred over western Canada in light map style.",[54,114,116],{"id":115},"a-pipeline-crossing-the-absk-border-at-township-10","A pipeline crossing the AB–SK border at Township 10",[11,118,119],{},"Consider a pipeline application crossing the 4th meridian near Maple Creek — Township 10, Range 1 W4M on the Alberta side, Range 30 W3M on the Saskatchewan side. Both regulatory packages reference quarter sections; both want a map of every existing well, every pipeline corridor, and every facility within a defined buffer.",[11,121,122],{},"In the old panel, that map required toggling Wells (AB), Wells (SK), Pipelines (AB), Pipelines (SK), Facilities (AB), Facilities (SK) — six checkboxes for two provinces. Pan to a BC export route a week later, and a new six-checkbox dance starts over.",[11,124,125,126,41,128,41,130,132,133,135,136,138,139,142],{},"In the new panel, three toggles handle it: ",[18,127,24],{},[18,129,28],{},[18,131,32],{},". Open the ",[18,134,40],{}," filter on each one and the chips for AB and SK are already on by default. Open ",[18,137,51],{}," on Wells and turn off Abandoned if the package only cares about active producers. Open ",[18,140,141],{},"Substance"," on Pipelines and keep Gas and Liquid Petroleum on, drop Water and Service. Three layers, three filter passes — the application map renders in seconds.",[11,144,145,146,148],{},"A click on any well between SW-12-10-30-W3 and NE-7-10-1-W4 returns the same popup with operator, licence, substance, province, and status — regardless of which side of the meridian it sits on. Exporting the visible features to GeoJSON gives one file with both provinces' wells in it, tagged with ",[62,147,81],{}," so the regulator's reviewer can sort by jurisdiction in their own tool.",[105,150,151],{},[11,152,153,156],{},[18,154,155],{},"🗺️ Diagram placeholder:"," A simplified plan-view sketch of Township 10 straddling the 4th meridian. Show two side-by-side township blocks — Range 1 W4M on the left, Range 30 W3M on the right — with the meridian as a heavier vertical line down the middle. Mark three wells in the W4M block with status icons, two wells in the W3M block, and a single pipeline line crossing the meridian at section 7\u002F12. Label the meridian as \"W4M — AB–SK border\". Two ink colours, drafting-plate aesthetic.",[54,158,160],{"id":159},"what-each-filter-section-does","What each filter section does",[11,162,163],{},"Four filter sections sit inside every unified layer. Each one drives a different decision a land or GIS user is already making in their head — the change here is that the panel finally exposes that decision instead of forcing it onto the layer list.",[165,166,167,173,178,183],"ul",{},[168,169,170,172],"li",{},[18,171,40],{}," — limit the layer to AB, SK, BC, or MB. Used for jurisdictional scoping: a SK-only regulatory map, an AB-only entitlement check, a BC-only Peace River pull.",[168,174,175,177],{},[18,176,44],{}," — Crude Oil, Gas, Bitumen, Coal, Water, Helium, and the standard regulatory categories. Used for product-line analysis: a gas-only network map for a midstream operator, an oil-only competitor scan, an injection-only map for waterflood planning.",[168,179,180,182],{},[18,181,47],{}," — well type (vertical, horizontal, observation), pipeline type (gathering, transmission, distribution), facility type (battery, custom treater, compressor, gas plant, etc.). Used when the question is about infrastructure category, not commodity.",[168,184,185,187,188,192],{},[18,186,51],{}," — Producing, Suspended, Abandoned, Reclaimed, Permitted, Cancelled, and the rest of the lifecycle states. Used constantly — the right status filter is what separates a \"live producing wells\" map from a \"what is left to abandon\" map. The ",[96,189,191],{"href":190},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Faer-wells-lifecycle-status","AER wells lifecycle status guide"," walks through how status codes map across provinces.",[11,194,195],{},"Each filter is additive. A landman scoping new acquisitions can set Province → AB, Substance → Crude Oil + Bitumen, Status → Producing, and the Wells layer returns only the wells those three filters all agree on. Turn off Province and the same filter set runs across all four provinces in one pass.",[105,197,198],{},[11,199,200,202],{},[18,201,111],{}," Close-up of the expanded Wells layer with all four filter sections visible — Province with AB chip active and SK\u002FBC\u002FMB greyed, Substance with Crude Oil and Bitumen highlighted, Type collapsed, Status with Producing on and Abandoned\u002FSuspended off. Map background tinted to show the resulting well dots only over central Alberta (Lloydminster heavy-oil belt and southern Athabasca). Zoom 7, hybrid imagery.",[54,204,206],{"id":205},"how-to-get-started","How to get started",[11,208,209,210,216,217,220],{},"The unified layer panel is live now at ",[96,211,215],{"href":212,"rel":213},"https:\u002F\u002Fapp.townshipcanada.com",[214],"nofollow","app.townshipcanada.com",". Open the map, click ",[18,218,219],{},"Layers",", and the Energy section sits near the top. The four unified entries — Wells, Pipelines, Facilities, Fields & Pools — replace the old per-province list. Expand any one to reveal its four filter sections.",[11,222,223,224,41,228,41,232,48,236,240],{},"Access requires Business tier (Energy Bundle). The new Wells layer is the same data that powers the ",[96,225,227],{"href":226},"\u002Falberta-legal-land-converter","Alberta legal land converter",[96,229,231],{"href":230},"\u002Fsaskatchewan-legal-land-converter","Saskatchewan legal land converter",[96,233,235],{"href":234},"\u002Fbc-nts-converter","BC NTS converter",[96,237,239],{"href":238},"\u002Fmanitoba-legal-land-converter","Manitoba legal land converter"," — so any quarter section or NTS reference looked up in those tools now opens onto a map with the same well, pipeline, and facility data already loaded.",[11,242,243,244,248,249,253,254,257],{},"For background on what the Energy Bundle covers and how it pairs with the Agriculture Bundle, the ",[96,245,247],{"href":246},"\u002Fblog\u002Fannouncing-ag-energy-bundles","Energy and Agriculture Bundles announcement"," and the ",[96,250,252],{"href":251},"\u002Fblog\u002Fsk-bc-manitoba-energy-agriculture-map-layers-live","June launch of SK, BC, and Manitoba layers"," cover the data sources behind each layer. See ",[96,255,256],{"href":256},"\u002Fpricing"," for plan details.",{"title":259,"searchDepth":260,"depth":260,"links":261},"",2,[262,263,264,265],{"id":56,"depth":260,"text":57},{"id":115,"depth":260,"text":116},{"id":159,"depth":260,"text":160},{"id":205,"depth":260,"text":206},"product",null,"2026-06-12","Township Canada's multi-province energy map now uses one Wells layer covering AB, SK, BC, and MB instead of twenty per-province entries — filter by Province, Substance, Type, and Status.","md",{"hero_image":272},"https:\u002F\u002Fb9bukyyl5yuyveqq.public.blob.vercel-storage.com\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002F2026-06\u002F7706095a-27b1-4314-bbcc-b4aaf788f6c4.jpeg",true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fmulti-province-energy-map-western-canada",{"title":5,"description":269},"blog\u002Fmulti-province-energy-map-western-canada",[278,24,28,32,279,280,281,282,283,284,285,286],"Oil and Gas","Multi-Province","Alberta","Saskatchewan","British Columbia","Manitoba","Energy Bundle","Product Launch","Map Layers","IKyKaXH3IaiMd6S0jpiCg7VCk-npFOipWjFAb_SGdiw"]