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-805
WEEKLY TERMINAL BLENDERS REPORT
INSTRUCTIONS
application 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-805 after reading the
instructions, please contact the Form Manager at
(202) 586-9612 or (202) 586-4522.

PURPOSE
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) Form EIA-805,
“Weekly Terminal Blenders Report," is used to collect data on
the operations of 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 the EIA
publication, Weekly Petroleum Status Report.

COPIES OF SURVEY FORMS, INSTRUCTIONS
AND DEFINITIONS

WHO MUST SUBMIT

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

The Form EIA-805 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 blending
plants selected by the EIA. Companies are selected into the
EIA weekly sample according to a procedure that assures
coverage of 90 percent of each information element.

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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

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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.

WHEN TO SUBMIT
The Form EIA-805 must be received by the EIA by 5 p.m. EST
on the Monday following the end of the report period (e.g.,
the “Weekly Terminal Blenders Report” covering the week
ending January 12, 2007 must be received by 5 p.m. EST
January 15, 2007).

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
Definitions of petroleum products and other terms are available
on our website. Please refer to these definitions before
completing the survey form

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-805.
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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.
Electronic Filing Option: The PC Electronic Data
Reporting Option (PEDRO) is a Windows-based

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Enter the month, day, and year for which you are filing
(e.g., January 12, 2007 is: Month 01 Day 12 Year 07).
The weekly report period begins at 7:01 a.m. EST on
Friday and ends at 7:00 a.m. EST on the following Friday.

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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 address of the company filing the
report. If there has been a change since the last report,
enter an “X” in the block provided.

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Enter the terminal site name.

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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 week.

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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 the true 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.
Identify only those data cells and lines which are affected by the
changes. You are not required to file a complete form when
you resubmit, but be sure to complete the EIA ID number, the
report period for which you are resubmitting, state code, and
contact information.

SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS
PART 3. BLENDER ACTIVITY
The Form EIA-805 is designed to collect the amount of finished
motor gasoline 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
where total net inputs equals total net 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 only for those products which the facility
processes, produces, or stores. If the quantity for a product
for which you usually report data is zero, please enter “0".
Shaded cells on the form are those in which data are not
currently required to be reported.
Input
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.
Production
Production represents the total volume of various finished
motor gasolines and motor gasoline blending components
produced. Production is reported as gross production for
each item identified on the survey except where shaded. Do
not “net out” the production by reporting the difference
between inputs and production. The sum of the inputs must
equal the sum of the production column and are reported in
the total input and total production row (code 999).
Reclassification of Inventory
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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
is required, such as adding oxygenates, 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 this terminal site should be reported on
Form EIA-801, “Weekly Bulk Terminal Report.”

PROVISIONS REGARDING CONFIDENTIALITY
OF INFORMATION
The information reported on this form will be protected 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 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 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

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FILING FORMS WITH THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT AND ESTIMATED REPORTING
BURDEN

SANCTIONS
The timely submission of Form EIA-805 by those required to
report is mandatory under Section 13(b) of the Federal Energy
Administration Act of 1974 (FEAA) (Public Law 93-275), as
amended. Failure to respond may result in a civil penalty of not
more than $2,750 per day for each violation, or a fine of not
more than $5,000 per day for each criminal 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.

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 35 minutes per response,
including the time of 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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