Monthly Natural Gas Liquids Report

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

OMB No. 1905-0165
Expiration Date: 8/31/19
Burden: 0.95 hours

EIA-816
MONTHLY NATURAL GAS PLANT LIQUIDS REPORT
INSTRUCTIONS
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QUESTIONS
If you have any questions about Form EIA-816 after reading the
instructions, please contact the Survey Manager at (202) 2876323.

PURPOSE

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 by following the steps below:

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) Form EIA-816,
"Monthly Natural Gas Liquids Report," is used to collect data on
the operations of natural gas processing plants and end-ofmonth stocks of fractionators. A summary of the data appear
on EIA’s website at www.eia.gov and in numerous government
publications.

http://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-816

WHO MUST SUBMIT

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

Form EIA-816 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
extract liquid hydrocarbons from a natural gas stream (natural
gas processing plant) and/or separate a liquid hydrocarbon
stream into its component products (fractionator), and/or
convert normal butane to isobutane (isomerization plant)..

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

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

PART 1. RESPONDENT IDENTIFICATION DATA
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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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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.

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

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Enter the site name of the facility.

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Enter the Terminal Control Number (TCN) used for
identification of terminals and other facilities in the IRS
ExSTARS system.

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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, 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.

WHEN TO SUBMIT
Form EIA-816 must be received by the EIA by the 20th calendar
day following the end of the report period (e.g., the Form EIA816 covering the January 2010 report period must be received
by February 20, 2010).

HOW TO SUBMIT
Instructions on how to report are printed on PART 2 of Form
EIA-816.
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
insecure means of transmission because the data are not
encrypted, and there is some possibility that your data could be
compromised.

PART 2. SUBMISSION/RESUBMISSION INFORMATION
Submission
Refer to “How to Submit” section for more details or methods
for submitting data.

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Resubmission

Stocks (Beginning and End of Month)

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.

Report all stocks in the custody of the facility regardless of
ownership. Reported stock quantities should represent actual
measured inventories.

Enter "X" in the resubmission box if you are correcting
information previously reported.

Report beginning stocks as of midnight of the last day of the
month prior to the current report month. Report ending stocks
as of midnight of the last day of the current report month. All
stocks should be corrected to 60oF less basic sediment and
water (BS&W).

Enter only those data cells which are affected by the changes. You
are not required to file a complete form when you resubmit.
Report any unusual aspects of your reporting month’s operations
in the Comments section below Part 3.

Note: For natural gas processing plants only, stocks at the
beginning of the month are to be the same as those reported
as end-of-month stocks on the report for the preceding
month.

SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS

Note: Fractionators are only required to report end-of-month
stocks.

PART 3. NATURAL GAS LIQUIDS ACTIVITY
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.

Report all domestic and foreign stocks held at facilities and in
transit thereto, except those in transit by pipeline. Petroleum
products in transit by pipeline are reported by pipeline operators
on Form EIA-812, “Monthly Product Pipeline Report.” Include
foreign stocks only after entry through Customs. Exclude stocks of
foreign origin held in bond.
For purposes of this report, entry through Customs is said to occur
on:
For purposes of this report, “after entry through Customs” is
said to occur on:

Natural Gas Processing Plants
Report for each natural gas liquid identified on the form,
beginning and end-of-month stocks, receipts, inputs, production,
shipments, and refinery fuel use and losses during the month,
except where shaded.
Note: Ending stocks for each of the natural gas liquids
identified on the form must be equal to the following:
beginning stocks + receipts - inputs + production - shipments plant fuel use and losses during the month.
Fractionators
Report only end-of-month stocks for each of the products
identified on the form.
Note: If the fractionation facility also has isomerization units,
report inputs and production of the products being converted.
Report all mixes of natural gas plant liquids (including
unfractionated streams) by the individual components as
determined by chemical analysis (i.e., ethane, propane, normal
butane, isobutane, and pentanes plus).

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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

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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

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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.

Receipts During Month
Report all receipts at the facility and in transit thereto, using the
same criteria as those used to report stocks. Include
intra-company transactions.
Inputs During Month

Combined Operations (Natural Gas Processing Plants and
Fractionators)

Report only inputs of normal butane being converted by an
isomerization process into isobutane.

Operators of natural gas processing plants that also operate a
fractionator at the same location/facility are required to file a
separate Form EIA-816 for each of these processes. Use the
preceding instructions to prepare one Form EIA-816 as a natural
gas processing plant and one Form EIA-816 as a fractionator.
Designate whether the report is for a gas processing plant or a
fractionator in Part 1 on the line labeled “Site Name.”

Production During Month
Report production during the month by individual components as
determined by chemical analysis (i.e., ethane, propane, normal
butane, isobutane, and pentanes plus).
Report plant condensate and scrubber oil production as
pentanes plus (Code 220).
Report production of isobutane converted from normal butane
through isomerization as well as isobutane extracted from
natural gas.

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Shipments During Month
Report all shipments, including intracompany shipments to other
plants, storage facilities, refineries, chemical plants or
fractionating facilities.
Plant Fuel Use and Losses During Month
Report products consumed at the facility for all purposes.
Report all nonprocessing losses (e.g., spills, fire losses,
contamination, etc.) by product.

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.
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-816, “Monthly Natural Gas
Liquids Report,” is used to report aggregate statistics on and
conduct analyses of the operation of U.S. natural gas processing
plants and fractionators.

SANCTIONS
The timely submission of Form EIA-816 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 .95 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.

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