Township Canada for Oil and Gas Operators

What energy operators do with Township Canada

Every well in Western Canada has an address - not a postal code, but a legal land description tied to the Dominion Land Survey grid. The Alberta Energy Regulator tracks 672,880+ wells by LSD. Pipeline permits reference section crossings. CCS tenure applications list quarter sections by formation extent. Township Canada puts the data layers and the conversion tools in one place.

Wells with full lifecycle status

The shipped AER Wells layer renders every Alberta-licensed well as a circle on the DLS grid, colour-coded by licence status:

• Active (issued, amended, re-entered)
• Suspended
• Abandoned
• Reclaimed (re-certified, exempt)

Plus the orphan flag - wells transferred to the Orphan Well Association inventory because the licensee can no longer fulfill closure obligations. Critical for surface-rights holders evaluating closure exposure on M&A diligence.

Backed by three API endpoints: search by UWI/name/licence number, spatial lookup by lat/lng, and single-well lookup.

Pipelines and facilities

AER pipelines render as line layers with mid-point label points. AER Facilities (ST102) categorize 40+ Petrinex sub-codes into 8 buckets - battery, gas plant, compressor, disposal, custom treating, terminal, water source, other - so the catalog UI stays readable at province scale.

Treaty boundaries on the DLS grid

Treaties 4, 6, 7, 8, and 10 rendered as polygons at low zoom, surfaced in the parcel report under "Indigenous consultation hazard." For any well location or proposed activity site, the treaty overlap is visible on the same map as the wells and pipelines.

Operator snapshot (BA licensee API)

Per-Business-Associate counts: total licences, active, suspended, abandoned, orphan, reclamation-certified. Materialized view for fast lookups. API-only - useful for M&A diligence dashboards and operator-portfolio reports.

Batch conversion and field routing

For regulatory submissions with thousands of well locations, the batch converter ingests CSVs and returns coordinates, geometry, and survey metadata. For field crews, the route planner takes legal descriptions and produces turn-by-turn routes across range roads and township roads.

Which tier fits

• Business - $40 CAD/mo. Required base - unlimited searches, batch CSV upload, all export formats (CSV, KML, Shapefile, GeoJSON, DXF), team management.
• Energy Bundle add-on - $50 CAD/mo. Adds AER wells (lifecycle, orphan flag), pipelines, facilities, CCS / pore space and geothermal layers, treaty boundary overlay, Crown PNG and mineral tenure on the map and in the parcel report, operator snapshots, and production rollups. Stacks on Pro or Business.

Most O&G operators run Business + Energy Bundle = $90/mo per seat. See pricing or the energy use case page.

Related resources

• AER Wells Data Layer reference
• Asset / Operator History workflow
• DLS Tools for Alberta Well Closure
• Alberta Well Licence Legal Land Descriptions