Monthly Tanker and Barge Movement Report

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION
Washington, DC 20585

OMB No. XXXX-XXXX
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EIA-817
MONTHLY TANKER AND BARGE MOVEMENTS REPORT
INSTRUCTIONS

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QUESTIONS
If you have any questions about Form EIA-817 after reading the instructions, please contact the Survey Manager at (202) 586-6254.

PURPOSE
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) Form EIA-817, Monthly Tanker and Barge Movements Report, is used to collect data
on the movement of crude oil and petroleum products. A summary of the data appear on EIA’s website at www.eia.gov and in
numerous government publications.

WHO MUST SUBMIT
Form EIA-817 is mandatory under 15 U.S.C. §772(b) and must be completed by:
All companies that have custody of crude oil or petroleum products transported by tanker and barge between PAD Districts; and

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All companies that have custody of crude oil or petroleum products originating from a PAD District and transported to the Panama
Canal with the intent that the crude oil or petroleum products be further transported to another PAD District.

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Commodities transported on company-owned tankers and barges are to be reported on Form EIA-817. In addition, the EIA-817
requires those parties that charter or lease the services of transportation companies, either on a contract or spot basis, to report to EIA
those shipments carried out by such firms.
For purposes of this report, custody is defined as physical possession of crude oil or petroleum products on a company-owned
tanker or barge. Companies that lease vessels or contract for movement of crude oil or petroleum products on a tanker or barge
between PAD Districts are also considered to have custody.

WHEN TO SUBMIT

HOW TO SUBMIT

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Form EIA-817 must be received by EIA by the 20th calendar day following the end of the report period (e.g., the Form EIA-817
covering the January report period must be received by February 20).

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Instructions on how to report are printed on Part 2 of Form EIA-817.
Secure file transmission (HTTPS) must be used 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

COPIES OF SURVEY FORMS, INSTRUCTIONS AND DEFINITIONS
Copies in spreadsheet format (XLS) are available on EIA's website. You may access the materials at the following link:
https://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-817
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.
Quantities: Report using the following criteria:
Report 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 the quantity for a product for which you usually report data
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is zero, please enter “0". Shaded cells on the form are those in which data are not currently required to be reported.
Report quantities corrected to 60 degrees Fahrenheit (°F) less basic sediment and water (BS&W).
PART 1. RESPONDENT IDENTIFICATION
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.

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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 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.

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

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Report any unusual aspects of your reporting month’s operations in the Comments section below Parts 1 and 2. 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 3 of these instructions on Page 3.

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SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS

PART 3. TANKER AND BARGE MOVEMENT

Report all shipments of crude oil or petroleum products for which your company has custody at the time of shipment.
Shipments that move through the Panama Canal from one PAD District to another PAD District are reported as regular waterborne
movements between the original shipping PAD District and the final destination PAD District. To avoid double-counting in cases
where there is a change in custody at the Panama Canal, the company that shipped the crude oil or petroleum products from a PAD
District to the Panama Canal reports the entire movement. In the event the complete movement takes place in two different months,
the entire movement is reported in the month when the crude oil or petroleum products were shipped to the Panama Canal.
Report movements of crude oil and/or petroleum products only between shipping PAD Districts and receiving PAD Districts.
Use Table 1 to determine the PAD District classification of each State.

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Table 1. State Classification
PAD DISTRICT 1
SUB-PADD 1A

SUB-PADD 1B

SUB-PADD 1C

Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont

Delaware
Dist. Columbia
Maryland
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania

Florida
Georgia
N. Carolina
S. Carolina
Virginia
West Virginia

PAD DISTRICT 2
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas

Nebraska
N. Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma

Kentucky
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri

S. Dakota
Tennessee
Wisconsin

PAD
DISTRICT 4

PAD
DISTRICT 5

Alabama
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
New Mexico
Texas

Colorado
Idaho
Montana
Utah
Wyoming

Alaska
Arizona
California
Hawaii
Nevada
Oregon
Washington

Finished Motor Gasoline

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PAD
DISTRICT 3

Report finished motor gasoline blended with fuel ethanol that contains 55% denatured fuel ethanol or less by volume as Ed55 and
Lower (code 166).

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Report finished motor gasoline blended with fuel ethanol that contains greater than 55% denatured fuel ethanol by volume as
Greater than Ed55 (code 149). All or most of the gasoline reported in this product category will be E85.

PROVISIONS REGARDING CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION

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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(b), 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 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-817, Monthly Tanker and Barge Movement Report, is used to report aggregate statistics on and
conduct analyses of movements of crude oil and petroleum products.

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SANCTIONS
The timely submission of Form EIA-817 by those required to report is mandatory under 15 U.S.C. §772(b), as amended. Failure
to respond may result in a civil penalty of not more than $10,633 each day for each 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

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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 2.25 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 Statistical Methods
and Research, EI-21, 1000 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20585; and to the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503.

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