About Oil Royalties

Alberta's Royalty Framework

March 2009 Incentive Program

• Frequently Asked Questions - Drilling Royalty Credit (July 3, 2009)
  • News release - Province extends energy incentive programs; moves forward on competitiveness review(June 25, 2009)
• Frequently Asked Questions - New Well Reduction(June 26, 2009)
• Frequently Asked Questions - Transition Wells  
• Talk about the Incentive program(fact sheet)
• Province announces three-point incentive program for energy sector News release(March 2009)

Formulas and Charts of Royalty Rates and Curves

• Table of Oil Sands Royalty Rates
• Transition Wells Charts (Natural Gas and Oil)
• Alberta's Royalty Framework (Natural Gas and Oil) - Charts
• Formulas for calculating conventional oil royalties
• Formulas for calculating natural gas royalties
• Table of conventional oil rates
• Chart of Natural Gas Combined Royalty Rates
• Frequently Asked Questions - Royalty Framework
• Frequently Asked Questions - See Information on the Royalty Framework(Natural Gas)
• Frequently Asked Questions - Crude Oil
  

A team led by Alberta Energy consulted with industry participants, CAPP and SEPAC on implementation details for Alberta’s royalty framework.

If you have technical questions regarding the Royalty Framework, please e-mail us at Response.Energy@gov.ab.ca.

On August 15, 2008, the Government released a Bitumen Royalty-In-Kind (BRIK) Request for Expression of Interest (REOI) inviting interested parties to make a submission detailing their interest, and explaining how they could participate in using the government’s BRIK volumes.  Twenty submissions were received by the October 17th deadline.  An update of the current status has been posted.  

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