About Royalties

Royalty is a share of the product (royalty-in-kind) or profit reserved by the owner for permitting another to use the property. It is a percentage interest in the value of production from a lease that is retained and paid to the mineral rights owner.

Understanding Alberta's Royalty System

• Energy Economics - Understanding Royalty(revised December 2010) What are royalties? How are they calculated and collected?
• Oil and Gas Fiscal Regimes of the Western Canadian Provinces and Territories(June 2011) How does Alberta's oil and gas revenue compare?
• Heavy Oil Prices(January 14, 2013) What factors influence Alberta's oil prices? How do they affect Alberta's energy revenues?
   

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Royalty Information

Frequently Asked Questions  

Bitumen Royalty in Kind  

Historical Royalty Data

Royalty Formulas, Charts, Tables and Curves

Effective since January 1, 2011

Chart of Oil Sands Royalty Rates

Royalty Calculators

Alberta Royalty Framework formulas Oil

Alberta Royalty Framework formulas Natural Gas

Alberta Royalty Framework Oil Graphs 

Alberta Royalty Framework Natural Gas Graphs

Table of Conventional Oil RatesARF

Table of Conventional Oil RatesARF (Effective January 1, 2009)

Table of Natural Gas RatesARF

Table of Natural Gas RatesARF (Effective January 1, 2009) 

Frequently Asked Questions

• General Royalty Framework
• Gas Curves
• Oil Curves
• Transition
• New Well Royalty Rate
• Natural Gas Deep Drilling Program
• Drilling Royalty Credit 
• Shale Gas
• Coalbed Methane
• Horizontal Oil
• Horizontal Gas

2009- 2011 Royalty Information is available in Alberta's Energy history.  

Bitumen Royalty in Kind (BRIK)

News release Bitumen refinery agreement promotes value-added development (February 16, 2011)
BRIK news 

Bitumen Royalty-In-Kind (BRIK) agreements, schedules and more information.