Conventional Oil Production and Royalties

Prior to 2009 conventional oil production was differentiated by vintage with the following classifications Old (pools discovered prior to 1974), New (pools discovered between 1974 and 1990) and Third Tier (pools discovered after 1990).  Additionally production was broken down into Heavy and Non-heavy production.

In 2009 the vintages were eliminated and production is broken down into Light, Medium, Heavy and Ultra Heavy production.

The New Well Royalty Rate was a royalty reduction in 2009 and up until May 2011 when it became a permanent part of the royalty formula and is considered part of the gross royalty after May 1, 2011.

    For the Period 2009 and 2010

Total production (M³)

Production Year	Light	Medium	Heavy	Ultra Heavy	Total
2009	13,171,249	5,104,656	2,632,617	5,834,747	26,743,269
2010	12,385,826	4,517,702	2,250,713	5,258,849	24,413,090

1994-2008


Crown (M³)

Production Year	Light	Medium	Heavy	Ultra Heavy	Total
2009	12,018,795	3,235,562	1,532,756	4,105,321	20,892,434
2010	12,275,000	3,165,242	1,416,085	4,155,979	21,012,306

1994-2008

Royalty Volume (M³)

Production Year	Light	Medium	Heavy	Ultra Heavy	Total
2009	2,163,308	579,325	187,349	502,892	3,432,873
2010	3,011,520	776,625	262,096	767,269	4,817,510

1994-2008

Gross royalty Rates (%)

Production Year	Light	Medium	Heavy	Ultra Heavy	Total
2009	18%	18%	12%	12%	16%
2010	25%	25%	19%	18%	23%

1994-2008

 Royalty Reduction Volumes (M³) 

Production Year	Light	Medium	Heavy	Ultra Heavy	Total
2009	272,960	18,543	2,901	36,031	330,434
2010	722,452	92,204	13,786	169,073	997,515

1994-2008

Includes Enhanced Oil recovery (EPR) and Deep Oil Program.
 

Effective Royalty Rate (%)

Production Year	Light	Medium	Heavy	Ultra Heavy	Total
2009	16%	17%	12%	11%	15%
2010	19%	22%	18%	14%	18%

1994-2008

For comparison purposes the following data shows the breakdown for heavy and non-heavy oil for the 1994-2008 periods.  Heavy oil in these charts would approximately equal the heavy and ultra heavy on the previous charts, while the non-heavy would approximately equal the light and medium classifications on the previous chart.

Total production (M³)

Production Year	Non –Heavy	Heavy	Total
1994	46,597,118	8,933,190	55,530,307
1995	45,437,043	10,156,709	55,593,751
1996	43,536,836	11,634,455	55,171,290
1997	39,869,555	12,672,910	52,542,465
1998	36,758,351	12,254,530	49,012,882
1999	32,847,267	11,034,226	43,881,493
2000	30,903,989	12,390,176	43,294,165
2001	28,953,891	12,849,840	41,803,730
2002	26,629,977	11,729,461	38,359,437
2003	25,175,196	11,144,031	36,319,227
2004	24,119,615	10,845,966	34,965,581
2005	23,208,094	9,969,435	33,177,529
2006	22,257,314	9,274,340	31,531,655
2007	21,580,194	8,854,940	30,435,133
2008	20,942,232	8,300,793	29,243,025

Crown (M³)

Production Year	Non –Heavy	Heavy	Total
1994	38,037,460	6,090,705	44,128,164
1995	36,812,292	6,600,692	43,412,984
1996	35,167,609	7,711,293	42,878,902
1997	31,900,351	8,389,461	40,289,812
1998	29,464,791	7,965,210	37,430,001
1999	26,672,587	7,278,400	33,950,987
2000	25,083,419	8,439,945	33,523,364
2001	23,556,492	8,740,449	32,296,941
2002	21,726,550	8,039,800	29,766,349
2003	20,484,614	7,809,457	28,294,071
2004	19,621,373	7,691,444	27,312,816
2005	18,906,894	7,069,015	25,975,909
2006	18,263,471	6,579,329	24,842,800
2007	17,653,933	6,325,234	23,979,166
2008	17,048,591	6,033,009	23,081,601

Royalty Volume (M³)

Production Year	Non –Heavy	Heavy	Total
1994	7,712,448	973,209	8,685,656
1995	7,562,800	1,161,818	8,724,618
1996	7,658,827	1,384,662	9,043,489
1997	6,650,939	1,417,922	8,068,861
1998	4,957,808	965,641	5,923,449
1999	4,569,952	944,765	5,514,717
2000	5,353,369	1,531,317	6,884,686
2001	4,857,527	1,398,314	6,255,841
2002	4,060,927	1,235,122	5,296,049
2003	3,874,081	1,301,150	5,175,231
2004	3,614,827	1,269,631	4,884,458
2005	3,451,509	1,112,706	4,564,215
2006	3,209,903	985,769	4,195,672
2007	3,035,661	915,279	3,950,940
2008	2,867,206	843,903	3,711,108

Gross royalty Rates (%)

Production Year	Non –Heavy	Heavy	Total
1994	20%	16%	20%
1995	21%	18%	20%
1996	22%	18%	21%
1997	21%	17%	20%
1998	17%	12%	16%
1999	17%	13%	16%
2000	21%	18%	21%
2001	21%	16%	19%
2002	19%	15%	18%
2003	19%	17%	18%
2004	18%	17%	18%
2005	18%	16%	18%
2006	18%	15%	17%
2007	17%	14%	16%
2008	17%	14%	16%

Royalty Reduction Volumes (M³)

Production Year	Non –Heavy	Heavy	Total
1994	630,012	106,319	736,331
1995	427,304	74,838	502,141
1996	446,145	93,382	539,527
1997	393,042	80,602	473,645
1998	314,968	51,772	366,740
1999	281,576	67,457	349,034
2000	436,934	127,671	564,604
2001	416,565	109,043	525,608
2002	371,962	96,602	468,564
2003	398,736	102,040	500,776
2004	361,565	99,736	461,300
2005	317,341	95,313	412,655
2006	308,463	81,210	389,673
2007	230,912	74,423	305,335
2008	139,886	49,158	189,044

Includes Enhanced Oil recovery (EOR), Developmental, Experimental, Exploratory,
Horizontal Oil recovery program, Low Productivity and Reactivated 1 and 2 Programs.

Effective Royalty Rate (%)

Production Year	Non –Heavy	Heavy	Total
1994	19%	14%	18%
1995	19%	16%	19%
1996	21%	17%	20%
1997	20%	16%	19%
1998	16%	11%	15%
1999	16%	12%	15%
2000	20%	17%	19%
2001	19%	15%	18%
2002	17%	14%	16%
2003	17%	15%	17%
2004	17%	15%	16%
2005	17%	14%	16%
2006	16%	14%	15%
2007	16%	13%	15%
2008	16%	13%	15%

     Detailed Information 

Net Oil Royalty Volumes 2011

New Royalty Framework Royalty Volumes 2011

This data does not include accruals and industry revisions of data are incorporated into the month they apply to and are not rolled into the current month as per the financial statements.

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