Crown PNG Tenure: Western Canada Petroleum and Natural Gas Agreements
Crown petroleum and natural gas tenure across Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, and Manitoba - leases, licences, and pore-space agreements - with holder, status, and days-to-expiry, on the map and parcel report.
What it is
Crown petroleum and natural gas (PNG) tenure is the set of agreements that grant the right to explore for and produce oil and gas from Crown land: leases, licences, and pore-space agreements. Alberta publishes them through the Alberta Energy Agreements (AMI) service, with the sibling provinces publishing through the Saskatchewan GeoAtlas, the BC Energy Regulator, and the Manitoba Petroleum Branch. Township Canada ingests the polygons and refreshes them weekly.
What it carries
Each agreement carries its disposition number and type, status, and expiry date, from which we compute days-to-expiry and an expiring-soon flag (inside a 24-month window). Where the province publishes it, we also carry the holder name - Alberta and Manitoba include it; Saskatchewan agreements publish no expiry date and BC agreements carry no holder name in the public data. Perpetual agreements are tagged so they are not mistaken for imminent renewals. We also compute what share of each Legal Subdivision a disposition covers.
Coverage and refresh
We carry more than 63,000 PNG agreements across Alberta, refreshed weekly, and Crown PNG tenure now covers all four western provinces: Saskatchewan (Saskatchewan GeoAtlas), British Columbia (BC Energy Regulator), and Manitoba (Manitoba Petroleum Branch).
Source: Alberta Energy · AMI Crown tenure (Alberta) · refreshed weekly
Source: Saskatchewan GeoAtlas, BC Energy Regulator, Manitoba Petroleum Branch
How Township Canada shows it
PNG tenure powers the Petroleum Tenure map layer (Energy Bundle), which can be coloured by days-to-expiry through the tenure preset, and the tenure card on the Energy tab of the parcel report. The expiring-tenure watchlist surfaces agreements approaching renewal.
/images/learn/data-sources/crown-png-tenure/tenure-expiry-map.png): the Petroleum Tenure layer themed by days-to-expiry (the tenure preset), with renewals inside their window highlighted./images/learn/data-sources/crown-png-tenure/report-tenure-card.png): the parcel report tenure card showing an intersecting PNG agreement with holder, status, and days-to-expiry.Related
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