Petroleum Supply Reporting System

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION
Washington, D.C. 20585

OMB No. 1905-0165
Expiration Date: 12/31/09
(Revised 2006)

EIA-815
MONTHLY TERMINAL BLENDERS REPORT
INSTRUCTIONS
that will enable you to enter data interactively, import data
from your own database, validate your data online, and
transmit the encrypted data electronically to EIA via the
Internet or a dial-up modem. If you are interested in
receiving this free software, contact the Electronic Data
Collection Support Staff at (202) 586-9659.

QUESTIONS
If you have any questions about Form EIA-815 after reading the
instructions, please contact the Form Manager at (202) 5866281.

PURPOSE
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) Form EIA-815,
"Monthly Terminal Blenders Report," is used to collect data on
the operations of all motor gasoline blending plants/terminals
located in the 50 States, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the
Virgin Islands, Guam, and other U.S. possessions. The data
appear on EIA’s website at www.eia.doe.gov and in numerous
government publications.

COPIES OF SURVEY FORMS, INSTRUCTIONS
AND DEFINITIONS
Copies in portable document format (PDF) and spreadsheet
format (XLS) are available on EIA's website at:
www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/survey_forms/pet_survey_forms.html

You may also access the materials by following the steps below:

WHO MUST SUBMIT
Form EIA-815 is mandatory pursuant to Section 13(b) of the
Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974 (Public Law 9-275)
and must be completed by the operators of all blending
terminals located in the 50 States, District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and other U.S.
possessions.

WHEN TO SUBMIT

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Go to EIA’s website at www.eia.doe.gov
Click on Petroleum
Click on Petroleum Survey Forms located in the
References box on the right side of the page
Select the materials you want.

Files must be saved to your personal computer. Data cannot be
entered interactively on the website.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

Form EIA-815 must be received by the EIA by the 20
calendar day following the end of the report period (e.g., the
Form EIA-815 covering the January 2007 report period must
be received by February 20, 2007).
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HOW TO SUBMIT

PART 1. RESPONDENT IDENTIFICATION DATA

Instructions on how to report via fax, secure file transfer, or email are printed on PART 2 of Form EIA-815.
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Definitions of petroleum products and other terms are available
on our website. Please refer to these definitions before
completing the survey form.

Secure File Transfer: This form may be submitted to the
EIA by fax, e-mail, or secure file transfer. Should you
choose to submit your data via e-mail or facsimile, we
must advise you that e-mail and facsimile are insecure
means of transmission because the data are not
encrypted, and there is some possibility that your data
could be compromised. You can also send your Excel files
to EIA using a secure method of transmission: HTTPS.
This is an industry standard method to send information
over the web using secure, encrypted processes. (It is the
same method that commercial companies use to
communicate with customers when transacting business
on the web.) To use this service, we recommend the use
of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later or Netscape 4.77
or later. Send your surveys using this secure method to:
https://idc.eia.doe.gov/upload/noticeoog.jsp

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Enter the year and month. The monthly report period
begins at 12:01 a.m. EST on the first day of the month and
ends midnight of the last day of the month.

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Enter the 10-digit EIA ID Number. If you do not have a
number, submit your report leaving this field blank. EIA
will advise you of the number.

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Enter the name and mailing address of the reporting
company. If there has been a change since the last
report, enter an “X” in the block provided.

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Enter the blending plant site name.

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Enter the name, telephone number, fax number, and email address of the person to contact concerning
information shown on the report. The person listed should
be the person most knowledgeable of the specific data
reported. Check the box provided if the contact
information is different from the prior month.

Electronic Filing Option: The PC Electronic Data
Reporting Option (PEDRO) is a Windows-based application
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PART 2. SUBMISSION/RESUBMISSION INFORMATON
Refer to “How to Submit” section for more details or methods
for submitting data.

Report the volume of finished motor gasoline and motor
gasoline blending components produced through blending
activity or reclassification.
Report the total input and total production (code 999). Total
input should equal total production.

Resubmission
A resubmission is required whenever an error greater than
5 percent of a previously reported value is discovered by a
respondent or if requested by the EIA.
Enter "X" in the resubmission box if you are correcting
information previously reported.
Enter only those data cells which are affected by the changes.
You are not required to file a complete form when you resubmit.
PART 3. TERMINAL BLENDING ACTIVITY
The Form EIA-815 is designed to collect the amount of finished
motor gasoline being produced at petroleum storage terminals.
The form also collects the amounts of various components, such
as fuel ethanol, motor gasoline blending components and
conventional gasoline that are blended together to produce
various types of finished motor gasoline. When the form is
filled out correctly there should be a material balance on
the total line (code 999) where total inputs equals total
production.
Quantities: Report using the following criteria.
• Report all quantities to the nearest whole number in
thousand barrels (42 U.S. gallons/barrel). Quantities
ending in 499 or less are rounded down, and quantities
ending in 500 or more are rounded up (e.g., 106,499 barrels
are reported as 106 and 106,500 barrels are reported as
107).
• Report data for only those lines which are applicable to
your operation. If there are no data for a specific line, leave
the entire line blank. Shaded cells on the form are those in
which data are not currently required to be reported.
• For each product, report inputs and production, except
where shaded.
• Do not report negative quantities.
Input During Month
Input represents the volume of various materials physically
mixed together (e.g. splash blending or comingled in a tank) to
produce finished gasoline and motor gasoline blending
components or the reclassification of one product to another.
See “Reclassification of Inventory” for additional information.

Reclassification of Inventory
If a product is reclassified as a different product, the quantity of
the original product is reported in the “Input” column and the new
product is reported in the “Production” column.
For example, if tank bottoms of “Reformulated Motor Gasoline
Blended with Alcohol” (Code 125) no longer meet product
specification and it is decided to blend this off-spec material into a
tank containing “RBOB for Blending with Alcohol”, report the
quantity of reformulated gasoline that is blended into the RBOB
tank as “Input” of “Reformulated Motor Gasoline Blended with
Alcohol” (Code 125) and report an equal quantity as
“Production” of “Reformulated Blendstock for Oxygenated
Blending with Alcohol” (Code 123).
Gasoline Treated as Blendstock (GTAB)
When GTAB is tested at the terminal and is certified as a
finished motor gasoline where no further blending or treatment
such as adding oxygenates is required, report GTAB as
follows. Report the quantity of GTAB that is certified as a
finished product as an input of “GTAB”” and report an equal
volume of the appropriate finished motor gasoline as a
“Production” of the finished motor gasoline that it has been
certified.
If GTAB requires oxygenate in order to meet the intended
product specification, report the oxygenate and GTAB as “Input”
and the resulting finished motor gasoline as “Production”.
Stocks
All stocks located at motor gasoline blending terminals
should be reported on Form EIA-811, “Monthly Bulk
Terminal Report”.

PROVISIONS REGARDING CONFIDENTIALITY
OF INFORMATION
The information contained on this form will be kept confidential
and not disclosed to the public to the extent that it satisfies the
criteria for exemption under the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA), 5 U.S.C. §552, the DOE regulations, 10 C.F.R.
§1004.11, implementing the FOIA, and the Trade Secrets Act,
18 U.S.C §1905. The Energy Information Administration (EIA)
will protect your information in accordance with its
confidentiality and security policies and procedures.

Production During Month
Production during the month represents the total volume of
various finished motor gasoline that is produced during the
month.
Report gross production during the month for each item
identified on the survey except where shaded.
Do not “net out” the production by reporting the difference
between inputs and production.
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The Federal Energy Administration Act requires the EIA to
provide company-specific data to other Federal agencies when
requested for official use. The information reported on this
form may also be made available, upon request, to another
component of the Department of Energy (DOE); to any
Committee of Congress, the General Accounting Office, or
other Federal agencies authorized by law to receive such
information. A court of competent jurisdiction may obtain this
information in response to an order. The information may be
used for any nonstatistical purposes such as administrative,
regulatory, law enforcement, or adjudicatory purposes.

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Disclosure limitation procedures are not applied to the
statistical data published from this survey's information. Thus,
there may be some statistics that are based on data from fewer
than three respondents, or that are dominated by data from
one or two large respondents. In these cases, it may be
possible for a knowledgeable person to estimate the
information reported by a specific respondent.
Company specific data are also provided to other DOE offices
for the purpose of examining specific petroleum operations in
the context of emergency response planning and actual
emergencies.
The data collected on Form EIA-815, “Monthly Terminal
Blenders Report,” is used to report aggregate statistics on and
conduct analyses of the motor gasoline blending activity at
terminals.

SANCTIONS

FILING FORMS WITH THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT AND ESTIMATED REPORTING
BURDEN
Respondents are not required to file or reply to any Federal
collection of information unless it has a valid OMB control
number. Public reporting burden for this collection of information
is estimated to average 1 hour and 9 minutes per response.
This includes the time for reviewing instructions, searching
existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data
needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of
information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or
any other aspect of this collection of information including
suggestions for reducing this burden to: Energy Information
Administration, Statistics and Methods Group, EI-70, 1000
Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20585; and to
the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, Washington, D.C. 20503.

The timely submission of Form EIA-815 by those required to
report is mandatory under Section 13(b) of the Federal Energy
Administration Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-275), as amended.
Failure to respond may result in a civil penalty of not more than
$2,750 each day for each violation, or a fine of not more than
$5,000 for each willful violation. The government may bring a
civil action to prohibit reporting violations which may result in a
temporary restraining order or a preliminary or permanent
injunction without bond. In such civil action, the court may also
issue mandatory injunctions commanding any person to comply
with these reporting requirements.

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