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-819
MONTHLY OXYGENATE 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-819 after reading the
instructions, please contact the Form Manager at
(202) 586-7484.

PURPOSE
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) Form EIA-819,
"Monthly Oxygenate Report," is used to collect data on
oxygenate production, and end-of-month stocks. 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

WHO MUST SUBMIT

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

Form EIA-819 is mandatory pursuant to Section 13(b) of the
Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-275)
and must be completed by the operators of all facilities that
produce (manufacture or distill) oxygenates (including MTBE
plants, petrochemical plants, and refineries that produce
oxygenates as part of their operations located in the 50 States
and the District of Columbia.

WHEN TO SUBMIT
Form EIA-819 must be received by the EIA by the 20
calendar day following the end of the report period (e.g., the
Form EIA-819 covering the January 2007 report period must
be received by February 20, 2007).
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HOW TO SUBMIT
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Go to EIA’s website at www.eia.doe.gov
Place a cursor on By Fuel near the center of the page
and click on Petroleum from the drop down menu
Click on Survey Forms on the left 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
Definitions of petroleum products and other terms are available
on EIA’s website www.eia.doe.gov. Please refer to these
definitions before completing the survey form.
PART 1. RESPONDENT IDENTIFICATION

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 is an 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 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 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, telephone number, fax number, and
e-mail 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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Report Period
Enter the year and month. The monthly report period
begins at 12:01 a.m. on the first day of the month and
ends midnight of the last day of the month.
PART 2. SUBMISSION/RESUBMISSION INFORMATON
Refer to “How to Submit” section for more details or
methods for submitting data.
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.

Use Table 1 to determine the PAD District classification of
each state.
Table 1. State Classification
PAD DISTRICT 1
New England
SUB-PADD 1A

Central Atlantic
SUB-PADD 1B

Lower Atlantic
SUB-PADD 1C

Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire

Delaware
Dist. Columbia
Maryland
New Jersey

Florida
Georgia
N. Carolina
S. Carolina

Rhode Island
Vermont

New York
Pennsylvania

Virginia
West Virginia

PAD
DISTRICT 3

PAD
DISTRICT 4

PAD
DISTRICT 5

SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS

Alabama

Colorado

Alaska

PART 3. OXYGENATE ACTIVITY

Arkansas

Idaho

Arizona

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.
Production
Report the production of oxygenates and motor gasoline
blending components. Do not report the production of
intermediate products. For example, if isobutylene is
produced at the production facility and is used as a feedstock
to produce MTBE at the production facility do not report the
production of isobutylene. In this case, you would report
the production of MTBE.
Stocks
Only include stocks located at production facilities.
Report total stocks of oxygenates in the custody of the
facility or facilities regardless of ownership. Include stocks
in aboveground and underground storage as well as rail
cars located at the facility or facilities. Exclude inventories in
leased tankage at other facilities. Reported stock quantities
should represent actual measured inventories where an actual
physical measurement is possible. Stocks of MTBE should
only be reported by operators of merchant MTBE plants.
Merchant plants will be contacted by the EIA to ensure they
know how EIA has classified their plant in the past. Stocks
of MTBE at captive plants are excluded from Form
EIA-819 because they are reported on Form EIA-810,
“Monthly Refinery Report”.

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Louisiana

Montana

California

Mississippi

Utah

Hawaii

New Mexico

Wyoming

Nevada

Texas

Oregon
Washington

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.
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.
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

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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-819, “Monthly Oxygenate
Report,” is used to report aggregate statistics on and
conduct analyses of the production and ending stocks of
oxygenates.

SANCTIONS
The timely submission of Form EIA-819 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.

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 38 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.

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