Monthly Product Pipeline Report

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

OMB No. 1905-0165
Expiration Date: 8/31/19
Burden: 3 hours

EIA-812
MONTHLY PRODUCT PIPELINE REPORT
INSTRUCTIONS
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QUESTIONS
If you have any questions about Form EIA-812 after reading the
instructions, please contact the Survey Manager at (202) 2876323.

PURPOSE
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) Form EIA-812,
"Monthly Product Pipeline Report," is used to collect data on
end-of-month stocks and movements of petroleum products
transported by pipeline. A summary of the data appear on EIA’s
website at https://www.eia.gov and in numerous government
publications.

insecure means of transmission because the data are not
encrypted, and there is some possibility that your data could be
compromised.

COPIES OF SURVEY FORMS, INSTRUCTIONS
AND DEFINITIONS
Copies in portable document format (PDF) and spreadsheet
format (XLS) are available on EIA's website. You may access
the materials at the following link:
https://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-812
Files must be saved to your personal computer. Data cannot be
entered interactively on the website.

WHO MUST SUBMIT
Form EIA-812 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 product pipeline
companies that carry petroleum products (including interstate,
intrastate, and intracompany pipelines) in the 50 States and the
District of Columbia.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
Definitions of petroleum products and other terms are available
on our website. Please refer to these definitions before
completing the survey form.
PART 1. RESPONDENT IDENTIFICATION DATA

WHEN TO SUBMIT

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Enter the year and month on each page. 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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If there has been a change since the last report, enter an “X”
in the block provided.

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Enter the name of the reporting company.

HOW TO SUBMIT

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Enter the Doing Business As “DBA” name if appropriate.

Instructions on how to report are printed on PART 2 of Form
EIA-812.

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Enter the physical address of the reporting company.

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Enter the mailing address of the Contact. (Note: If the
physical address and mailing address are the same, provide
the information only for the physical address.)

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Enter the name, telephone number, facsimile 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.

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Form EIA-812 must be received by the EIA by the 20 calendar
day following the end of the report period (e.g., the Form
EIA-812 covering the January report period must be received by
February 20).
Form EIA-812 Semi Annual Storage Capacity Supplement
must be received by the EIA by the 20th of April for the March
report period and by the 20th of October for the September
report period.

We recommend secure file transmission (HTTPS) for companies
to use when sending this form to EIA. Secure transmission is an
industry standard method to send information over the internet
using encrypted processes. Access the EIA secure transmission
site at: https://signon.eia.doe.gov/upload/noticeoog.jsp.
Other methods of sending this form to EIA include the PC
Electronic Data Reporting Option (PEDRO), mail, and facsimile.
PEDRO is a Windows-based application that enables 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. If you are interested in receiving this free
software, contact the Electronic Data Collection Support Staff at
(202) 586-9659.
Email may be used for sending PDF forms, but EIA cannot
accept Excel files sent by email. Should you choose to submit
your PDF data by email, we must advise you that e-mail is an

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PART 2. SUBMISSION/RESUBMISSION INFORMATION
Submission

Report stocks of mixed liquefied petroleum gases (including
unfractionated streams) by the individual components (i.e.,
ethane, propane, normal butane, and isobutane) as determined
by chemical analysis.

Refer to “How to Submit” section for more details or methods
for submitting data.

All Other Oxygenates (Code 445) includes other aliphatic
alcohols and aliphatic ethers intended for motor gasoline
blending (e.g., isopropyl ether (IPE) or n-propanol).

Resubmission

Exclude oxygenates as motor gasoline blending components
unless they have been commingled with motor gasoline blending
components.

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 and contact information.

Report all domestic and foreign stocks held in pipelines and in
working tanks and in transit thereto, except those in transit by
pipelines which you do not operate. Include foreign stocks only
after entry through Customs. Exclude stocks of foreign origin
held in bond.
Table 1. State Classification

Comments
PAD DISTRICT 1

Report any unusual aspects of your operations during the
current reporting period in the Comments section at the
bottom of the form below Parts 1 and 2 on the cover page.
Comments will be used in the validation process and should
address any data anomalies that could raise questions
requiring contact by survey staff for clarification. Comments
will be protected in the same manner as other information
reported on this form as described in detail in “Provisions
Regarding Confidentiality of Information” following Part 7 of
these instructions on Page 4.

SUB-PADD 1A
Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont

SUB-PADD 1B
Delaware
Dist. Columbia
Maryland
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania

SUB-PADD 1C
Florida
Georgia
N. Carolina
S. Carolina
Virginia
West Virginia

PAD DISTRICT 2
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas

SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS
PART 3. PRODUCT PIPELINE STOCKS

Kentucky
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri

Nebraska
N. Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma

S. Dakota
Tennessee
Wisconsin

Quantities: Report using the following criteria.
PAD
DISTRICT 3

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).

Alabama
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
New Mexico
Texas

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.
Report calculated volumes of products in lines (pipeline fill) and
measured volumes of products in working, breakout, and transshipment tanks at the end of the report period by Petroleum
Administration for Defense (PAD) Districts and Sub-PAD
Districts. Use Table 1 to determine the PAD District
classification of each State.

PAD
DISTRICT 4
Colorado
Idaho
Montana
Utah
Wyoming

PAD
DISTRICT 5
Alaska
Arizona
California
Hawaii
Nevada
Oregon
Washington

For purposes of this report, “after entry through Customs” is said
to occur on:
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the “entry date” specified in block 7 on the U.S. Customs
and Border Protection CBP Form 7501, “Entry Summary;”
(The entry date for a warehouse withdrawal is the date of
withdrawal). or

Exclude stocks of petroleum products held in bulk terminals.
Stocks held at bulk terminals, including bulk terminals operated
by product pipeline companies, are reported on Form EIA-815
“Monthly Bulk Terminal and Blender Report”.

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the “import date” specified in block 5 on the U.S. Customs
and Border Protection CBP Form 214A (Statistical Copy),
“Application for Foreign Trade Zone Admission and/or
Status Designation;” or

Stocks

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the “export date” specified in block 4 on the U.S.
Department of Commerce Form 7525-V, “Shipper’s Export
Declaration,” for shipments from Puerto Rico to the 50
States and the District of Columbia.

Report all stocks in the custody of the facility regardless of
ownership. Reported stock quantities should represent actual
measured inventories.
Report stocks as of midnight of the last day of the report month,
corrected to 60 degrees Fahrenheit (oF) less basic sediment and
water (BS&W).

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PART 4. PRODUCT PIPELINE MOVEMENTS DURING THE
MONTH BETWEEN PAD DISTRICTS
Report all movements of petroleum products between PAD
Districts made by your company during the month.
Report intermediate movements for pipeline systems operating
in more than two PAD Districts. For example, a shipment
originating in PAD District 3, passing through PAD District 2, and
terminating in PAD District 1, is reported as a movement from
PAD District 3 to PAD District 2 and also from PAD District 2 to
PAD District 1.
Transmix
Transmix is created when two different petroleum products (e.g.
motor gasoline and distillate fuel oil) become commingled during
pipeline transport.
Exclude stocks held in transmix tanks from quantities reported
on Form EIA-812.

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 Government Accountability 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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SANCTIONS
The timely submission of Form EIA-812 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 3 hours 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, Office of Survey
Development and Statistical Integration, EI-21, 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.

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-812, “Monthly Product Pipeline
Report,” is used to report aggregate statistics on and conduct
analyses of end-of-month stocks and movements of petroleum
products by pipeline.

EIA-812, Monthly Product Pipeline Report