CER Open Data via the Open Government Portal CKAN API

The Canada Energy Regulator publishes no API of its own for tabular data, but all of its open data is machine-readable through the Government of Canada Open Government Portal's CKAN Action API, which is operated by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat and not by the CER. Filtering that API to the CER's organization id A3EE9522-882F-47B0-BA7D-83420DC8577C returned 83 datasets carrying 944 resources on 2026-07-27 — 894 CSV, 36 HTML, 8 PDF, 2 XLSX, 2 Esri REST and 2 WMS — every one licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Coverage is the CER's regulatory and market record: crude oil, natural gas, NGL, LNG and electricity imports and exports, pipeline throughput, capacity and tolls, pipeline financial information, incidents, conditions, compliance and enforcement, the regulated company list, frontier production statistics and the Canada's Energy Future projection series. Only one of the 944 resources is loaded into the CKAN datastore, so datastore_search row-level querying is effectively unavailable; the real access pattern is metadata over the API and then bulk CSV download from https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/open/, which was confirmed serving a 10,110-byte LNG exports file anonymously.

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aid: canada-energy-regulator:cer-open-data-ckan
name: CER Open Data via the Open Government Portal CKAN API
description: 'The Canada Energy Regulator publishes no API of its own for tabular data, but all of its
  open data is machine-readable through the Government of Canada Open Government Portal''s CKAN Action
  API, which is operated by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat and not by the CER. Filtering that
  API to the CER''s organization id A3EE9522-882F-47B0-BA7D-83420DC8577C returned 83 datasets carrying
  944 resources on 2026-07-27 — 894 CSV, 36 HTML, 8 PDF, 2 XLSX, 2 Esri REST and 2 WMS — every one licensed
  under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Coverage is the CER''s regulatory and market record: crude
  oil, natural gas, NGL, LNG and electricity imports and exports, pipeline throughput, capacity and tolls,
  pipeline financial information, incidents, conditions, compliance and enforcement, the regulated company
  list, frontier production statistics and the Canada''s Energy Future projection series. Only one of
  the 944 resources is loaded into the CKAN datastore, so datastore_search row-level querying is effectively
  unavailable; the real access pattern is metadata over the API and then bulk CSV download from https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/open/,
  which was confirmed serving a 10,110-byte LNG exports file anonymously.'
humanURL: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/organization/cer-rec
baseURL: https://open.canada.ca/data/api/3/action
tags:
- Open Data
- CKAN
- Energy Markets
- Imports and Exports
- Statistics
properties:
- type: APIReference
  url: https://open.canada.ca/data/api/3/action/help_show?name=package_search
- type: Documentation
  url: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/organization/cer-rec
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/about/open-government/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/