Alberta oil field production up 1 million barrels from March 2025 and 26 million barrels from March 2016.

By Tom Parkin

June 26th, 2026

BURLINGTON, ON

This year had the highest output of any March ever, up 1 million barrels from March 2025 and 26 million barrels from March 2016.

Alberta oil field production, barrels per month, Mar 2016-Mar 2026

Field production of Alberta crude was 86,900 barrels in March, according to StatsCan data released June 2.

While it’s not the top month ever — that came in December, when over 90,000 barrels were extracted for the first time — it is the biggest March ever. Production in March 2026 was two per cent higher than March 2025 and up 43 per cent from March 2016.

These pesky facts contradict a common argument of Alberta separatists, who claim federal policies have hurt production.

Oil companies extracting Canadian resources are also currently getting very high prices for their near-record production, although the Iran war, causing the price spike, had no impact on production costs in Canada.

Bitumen is brought to the surface and sent through pipelines to terminals for shipping to refineries.