Oil and Gas brings 27,000 jobs and $15 billion to Atlantic Canada

Oil and gas sector an economic force for both employment and trade in Canada’s four Atlantic provinces

Using customized data from Statistics Canada, in 2016 the oil and gas sector:

Was responsible for adding nearly $6.3 billion in nominal GDP to the economies of the provinces in Atlantic Canada;
Generated nearly $15 billion in outputs,² consisting primarily of the value of goods and services produced by sectors in Atlantic Canada;
Supported nearly 27,000 jobs directly and indirectly in Atlantic Canada; and
Paid over $1.6 billion in wages and salaries to workers in the four Atlantic provinces.