Monthly Oxygenate Report

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

OMB No. 1905-0165
Expiration Date: 8/31/19
Burden: 1.6 hours

EIA-819
MONTHLY OXYGENATE REPORT
INSTRUCTIONS
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QUESTIONS
If, after reading the instructions, you have questions about
Form EIA-819 please contact the Survey Manager at
(202) 586-6670.

PURPOSE
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Form
EIA-819, "Monthly Oxygenate Report," is used to collect
data on oxygenate production capacity, inputs, production,
end-of-month stocks, and storage capacity. The data
appear on EIA’s website at https://www.eia.gov and in
numerous government publications.

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 email is an 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-819

WHO MUST SUBMIT
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.

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 our website. Please refer to these definitions
before completing the survey form.
PART 1. RESPONDENT IDENTIFICATION

WHEN TO SUBMIT

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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.

•

Form EIA-819 Semi Annual Storage Capacity Supplement
(PART 7) 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.

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

•

If there has been a change since the last report, enter
an “X” in the block provided, and update respondent
information.

HOW TO SUBMIT

•

Enter the legal name of the plant.

Instructions on how to report are printed on PART 2 of
Form EIA-819.

•

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

•

Enter the Site Name of the facility.

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.

•

Enter the Terminal Control Number (TCN) used for
identification of terminals and other facilities in the
IRS ExSTARS system. Leave this field blank if no
TCN has been assigned. Most oxygenate
producers currently do not have TCNs assigned.

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.

•

Enter the name and physical address of the reporting
company.

•

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.

Form EIA-819 must be received by the EIA not later than
the 20th calendar day following the end of the report period
(e.g., the Form EIA-819 covering the January report period
must be received by February 20).

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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.

Nameplate Capacity is equal to Design Capacity unless plant
equipment and process modifications result in permanent
changes to production capacity. Changes affecting
Nameplate Capacity may add to or subtract from Design
Capacity.
PART 4. OXYGENATE PRODUCTION

PART 2. SUBMISSION/RESUBMISSION INFORMATION
Submission
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.
Report any unusual aspects of your reporting month’s
operations in the Comments section below Part 3 on the
first page of the form.

Report the production of denatured fuel ethanol (Code
190) and undenatured fuel ethanol (Code 191).
Report production of undenatured fuel ethanol only when it
is produced as a finished product intended for shipment.
Exclude from production any undenatured fuel ethanol that
is an intermediate product to be blended with denaturant
prior to shipment.
Exclude from production any ethanol intended for
beverage, industrial, or other nonfuel use.
Report production of Ethyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (ETBE).
Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE), and All Other
Oxygenates intended for fuel use. Exclude products
intended for nonfuel applications.
Ending Stocks
•

Report stocks as of midnight of the last day of the
report month, corrected to 60oF less basic sediment
and water (BS&W).

•

Only include stocks located at production facilities.
Report total stocks of oxygenates in the custody of the
facility regardless of ownership.

•

Include stocks in aboveground and underground
storage as well as rail cars located at the facility.

•

Exclude stocks held in tanks at facilities not operated by
your company. These stocks will be reported by the
companies operating the other facilities. Also exclude
stocks held in pipelines not operated by your company.
These stocks will be reported by the pipeline operators...

•

Reported stock quantities should represent actual
measured inventories.

•

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”.

SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS
Report fuel ethanol production capacity in million denatured
gallons per year in Part 3 of the form. The cells will accept
whole numbers (i.e. no fractions or decimals). It is
understood the data are in million gallons per year.
Report all other 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 cells that are applicable to your
operation. Leave non-applicable cells blank. Shaded cells
on the form are those in which data are not currently
required to be reported.
PART 3. Fuel Ethanol Production Capacity
Report fuel ethanol production capacity (Code 190) once
per year on the January report or when there is a change in
capacity. Report nameplate production capacity.
Report fuel ethanol production capacity as of January 1 (or
the first day of the month when capacity changes) in million
denatured gallons per year.
Nameplate Capacity
Nameplate Capacity is the volume of denatured fuel ethanol
that can be produced during a period of 12 months under
normal operating conditions.

Report all domestic and foreign stocks held at facilities and
in transit thereto, except those in transit by pipeline. Barrels
of oxygenates and renewable fuels 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:

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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

•

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

•

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.

PART 5. DENATURANTS BLENDED WITH FUEL
ETHANOL AND DENATURANTS ENDING STOCKS
Denaturant Volume Blended
Report quantities of denaturants blended with fuel ethanol
including:
• pentanes plus including natural gasoline (Code
220),
• finished reformulated motor gasoline (Code 127),
finished conventional motor gasoline (Code 130),
• Reformulated Blendstock for Oxygenate Blending
(RBOB) (Code 118),
• Conventional Blendstock for Oxygenate Blending
(CBOB) (Code 139),
• Gasoline Treated as Blendstock (GTAB)
(Code 117), and
• Other Motor Gasoline Blending Components
(Code 138).

said to occur on:
•

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

•

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

•

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.

PART 6. BLENDING TO PRODUCE FINISHED MOTOR
FUEL
Complete Part 6 of Form EIA 819 only if your plant blends
fuel ethanol, finished motor gasoline, and/or motor
gasoline blending components to produce finished motor
gasoline blended with fuel ethanol.
Leave Part 6 blank if your plant does not blend finished
motor gasoline. Note that Ed85 is reported as finished
motor gasoline blended with denatured fuel ethanol above
55 percent by volume (Code 149).
Inputs
•

Report input of Finished Motor Gasoline, Conventional
Other (Code 130), motor gasoline blending components
(Codes 118, 139, 117, and 138) and fuel ethanol
(Codes 190 and 191) that will be blended to produce
finished motor gasoline. These inputs are limited to
finished motor gasoline and motor gasoline blending
components blended to produce finished motor
gasoline blended with fuel ethanol.

•

Exclude inputs used as denaturant for fuel ethanol.
Report denaturant blending in Part 5 of Form EIA-819.

Ending Stocks
•

Report denaturants stocks as of midnight of the last
day of the report month, corrected to 60oF less basic
sediment and water (BS&W).

•

Include stocks in aboveground and underground
storage as well as rail cars located at the facility.

•

Exclude inventories held in tanks at facilities operated
by other companies. These stocks will be reported by
the companies operating those facilities. Also exclude
stocks held in pipelines not operated by your company.
These stocks will be reported by the pipeline operators.

•

Reported stock quantities should represent actual
measured inventories where an actual physical
measurement is possible.

Production

Report all domestic and foreign stocks held at facilities and
in transit thereto, except those in transit by pipeline. Barrels
of oxygenates and renewable fuels 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

Report production of Reformulated Motor Gasoline
Blended with Fuel Ethanol (Code 125), Finished
Conventional Motor Gasoline Blended with Fuel Ethanol
(Ed55 and Lower) (Code 166), and Finished Conventional
Motor Gasoline Blended with Fuel Ethanol (Greater than
Ed55) (Code 149) resulting from blending activity at
oxygenate plants.
The sum of finished motor gasoline production of all types
reported in Part 6 must equal the sum of inputs of fuel
ethanol, finished motor gasoline, and motor gasoline
blending components also reported in Part 6.

PART 7. SEMI ANNUAL STORAGE CAPACITY
SUPPLEMENT
Report fuel ethanol storage capacity 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).

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Report storage capacity for denatured and undenatured
fuel ethanol.

Figure 2. Schematic of Cavern Storage Capacity and
Stocks

Exclude leased storage capacity located at facilities
operated by other companies. This storage capacity will be
reported by the companies operating those facilities.
Report working storage capacity and net available shell
storage capacity as described in figure 1 for tanks or figure 2
for caverns. Figures 1 and 2 are based in part on
schematics developed by the National Petroleum Council
and U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Figure 1. Schematic of Tank Storage Capacity and
Stocks

TANK BOTTOMS

INVENTORY
LEVEL

TOTAL SHELL CAPACITY

WORKING
STORAGE
CAPACITY

MAXIMUM OPERATING
INVENTORY

CONTINGENCY
SPACE

NET AVAILABLE SHELL CAPACITY

UNAVAILABLE
SPACE

LIQUID
PRODUCT

GROUND
LEVEL

BRINE STRING

TOTAL SHELL CAPACITY

Exclude storage capacity in trucks, rail cars, barges, and
tankers.

WORKING STORAGE
CAPACITY

Report underground and above ground storage capacity.

NET AVAILABLE SHELL CAPACITY

Report storage capacity twice each year with submissions
for March 31 and September 30. It is unnecessary to
report storage capacity for months other than March and
September.

CRITICAL
CAVERN
DEPTH

CONTINGENCY
SPACE

BRINE

UNAVAILABLE
SPACE (BRINE
SUMP)

Terms used in Figures 1 and 2 are defined as follows.
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Contingency Space (Tank): Available space that is
above the maximum operating inventory level. This
storage space remains empty during normal operations,
but it is available if needed. It allows flexibility to
exceed working storage capacity without reaching an
inventory level that might create safety hazards or
disrupt operations. Storage space above the top of this
level is unavailable.
•

Contingency Space (Cavern): Available space that is
below the critical cavern depth but still above
unavailable space. This storage space remains filled
with brine during normal operations, but it is available if
needed. It allows flexibility to exceed working storage
capacity without reaching an inventory level that might
create hazards or disrupt operations.

•

Net Available Shell Storage Capacity (Tank): Total
available space including tank bottoms, working storage
capacity, and contingency space.

•

Net Available Shell Storage Capacity (Cavern): Total
available space including working storage capacity, and
contingency space.

•

Tank Bottoms: Inventory that is below the normal
suction line of a storage tank. In floating roof tanks, this
is at least the volume required to remain in a storage
tank in order to keep the roof from touching the bottom
of a storage tank.

•

Total Shell Capacity: Total storage space including
unavailable space and net available shell storage
capacity.

•

Unavailable Space (Tank): Storage space that is
required as part of the design of a tank but cannot be
used. Includes tank tops, safety allowance, and any
other space that is included by design but cannot be
used.

•

Unavailable Space (Cavern): Storage space that is
required as part of the design of an underground
storage facility but cannot be used. Includes the brine

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sump and any other space that is included by design
but cannot be used.
•

•

Working Storage Capacity (Tank): Available capacity
for storing crude oil or liquid products that is above tank
bottoms and below contingency space. When filled to
this capacity, inventory of crude oil or liquid products
stands at the maximum operating inventory level.
Working Storage Capacity (Underground): Available
capacity for storing crude oil or liquid products that is
above contingency space.

Storage Capacity in Operation
Storage capacity in operation includes capacity of tanks and
caverns that were available and able to be used to hold
stocks on the report date. Tanks and caverns in operation
may hold stocks, they may hold only tank bottoms, or they
may be empty, but they must have been able to be placed in
operation on the report date.
Report working storage capacity of tanks and caverns that
were in operation on the report date.
Report net available shell storage capacity of tanks and
caverns that were in operation on the report date.
Net available shell storage capacity of tanks in operation
must always be greater than or equal to working storage
capacity of tanks and caverns in operation.
Idle Storage Capacity
Idle storage capacity includes capacity of tanks and caverns
that were not usable for holding stocks on the report date
but could be placed in operation within 90 days of the report
date after maintenance or repair. When assessing whether
or not a tank can be placed in service within 90 days, it is
acceptable to use a current planned or scheduled return to
service date. It is unnecessary to try to account for possible
contingencies (e.g. maintenance delays caused by weather)
unless these were incorporated into the planned or
scheduled in operation date.
Report net available shell storage capacity of idle tanks and
caverns.
Exclude storage capacity of idle tanks and caverns when
reporting working storage capacity.
Exclude storage capacity of idle tanks and caverns that
were idle at the end of the report month and could not be
placed in operation within 90 days.
Exclude storage capacity of idle tanks and caverns if there
is no scheduled date when the capacity will be placed in
service.
Exclude storage capacity of tanks and caverns under
construction even when construction is scheduled for
completion within 90 days. Storage capacity of tanks and
caverns under construction is reported as capacity in
operation only after new tanks and caverns are placed in
service.
New Storage Capacity
Report new storage capacity beginning with the first
storage capacity report period after the new capacity was
placed in operation.

In most cases, fuel ethanol stocks reported in Part 4 of Form
EIA-819 will be less than total shell storage capacity.
However, there may be exceptions in cases where barrels
stored in rail cars, tankers, or barges are reported as stocks
in Part 4 but the storage capacity is excluded from Part 7.

PROVISIONS REGARDING
CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION
Information on fuel ethanol nameplate production capacity
reported on Form EIA-819 is not considered confidential
and will be publicly released in identifiable form by
company and site. All other 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, 1 0 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 non-statistical
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-819, “Monthly Oxygenate
Report,” is used to report aggregate statistics on and
conduct analyses of the operations of U.S. oxygenate
plants.

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.

Exclude new capacity while it is under construction even
when the scheduled completion date was within 90 days of a
storage capacity report date.
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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 1.6 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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