Publications are listed by the following categories:

Acts and Regulations

Statutes and Regulations of the Province of Alberta that govern, or are administered by, the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB).

The latest consolidations of all Alberta Acts and Regulations can be purchased from the Queen's Printer office in Edmonton or can be obtained from the Queen's Printer Web site: http://www.gov.ab.ca/qp

Bulletins and Directives

The ERCB (formerly the EUB)  has begun an initiative to review and streamline ERCB requirements contained in interim directives, informational letters, and guides, as well as to update and clarify the requirements. First, the ERCB will issue only "directives" which replace interim directives, informational letters, and guides. Directives are documents setting out new or amended ERCB requirements or processes to be implemented and followed by licensees, permittees, and other approval holders under the jurisdiction of the ERCB. Existing interim directives, informational letters, and guides will be reviewed and renamed as the initiative progresses. ERCB guides have now been reissued as directives. Directives that dealt with Utilities issues have been reissued as Rules and are available through the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) web site at www.auc.ab.ca.

Second, the ERCB has renamed general bulletins as "bulletins." These contain announcements to inform the energy industry and the public of an ERCB activity, such as a consultation, a new program, electronic submission of data, or a new publication. Bulletins do not set out ERCB requirements. Bulletins not found on the ERCB Web site are available on request from the ERCB.

All active and in effect Directives and Bulletins are published and available on the ERCB Web site at no charge.

New releases are posted to the ERCB Web site as they are published
- monitor the What's New page

Subscriber List - Bulletins - annual subscription
- ERCB Web site - No charge
- RSS Feeds are now available on the ERCB Web site. Subscribe to the "What's New" feed to receive bulletins

Individual current Directives are priced on a cost recovery basis from Information Services

Bulletins, IDs, ILs, and GBs are available from Information Services - No charge

Individual superseded or non-current IDs, ILs, and GBs are available from Information Services at current pull and copy charge rates

Guides

This series of publications includes guides, manuals, and handbooks that contain information of a 'how-to' nature. Each guide is assigned a unique number prefixed by a 'G' (eg. GUIDE-3). All guides that contain requirements have now been converted to Directives. The majority of numbers have been preserved as the documents have been converted. For example, Guide 71 has become Directive 071.

Maps, Shapefiles and Map Viewers

The ERCB distributes a selection of maps related to energy and energy resource development in Alberta.

Construction and Topographic Information: The polyconic projection method of construction is employed wherever possible. Topographic information is obtained from planimetric maps issued by the Alberta Department of Energy, Department of Sustainable Resource Development, Province of Alberta.

Size: Map sizes are given in centimetres.
Prices: Purchase price is given per map unless stated otherwise.
How to Order: Maps are ordered from the ERCB's Data & Distribution Section. See details in How to Order section. 

The ERCB supplies pipeline maps in digital form. The following standards apply:
10TM Projection
NAD 83 Co-ordinates (North American Datum 1983)
Central Meridian = -115
Scale 0.9992
False Easting +500,000 m
False Northing 0.0 m

Reports

These are reports usually of a technical nature, issued once as unique documents. These reports are assigned a unique number: year-letter (eg. REPORT 90-A).

This section also includes unnumbered ERCB reports plus reports published by other agencies that are distributed by the ERCB's Information Services area as a convenience for ERCB customers.

Serial Publications

Serial publications issued on a regular basis (monthly, quarterly, annual). Each title is assigned a unique publication number prefixed by the two-letter code 'ST' (eg. ST98).

You can also download and print a full version of the 2011 Publications Catalogue for a complete listing of all ERCB publications available.