Weekly Natural Gas Liquids Report

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

OMB No. XXXX - XXXX
Expiration Date: m/dd/yyyy
Burden: 0.68 hours

EIA-806
WEEKLY NATURAL GAS LIQUIDS REPORT
INSTRUCTIONS
............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

QUESTIONS
If you have any questions about Form EIA-806 after reading the instructions, please contact the Survey Manager at (202) 287-6323.

PURPOSE
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) Form EIA-806, "Weekly Natural Gas Liquids Report," is used to collect data on the
operations of natural gas processing plants and fractionators. A summary of the data appear on EIA’s website at https://www.eia.gov/
and in numerous government publications.

WHO MUST SUBMIT

AF
T

Form EIA-806 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 inlet stream (natural gas processing
plant) and/or separate liquid hydrocarbon streams into component products (fractionator) 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.

WHEN TO SUBMIT

The Form EIA-806 must be received by the EIA by 5 p.m. Eastern Time on the Monday following the end of the report period (e.g., the Form
EIA-806 covering the week ending January 6, 2023 must be received by 5 p.m. Eastern Time January 9, 2023).

HOW TO SUBMIT

Instructions on how to report are printed on PART 2 of Form EIA-806.

R

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

D

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:
http://www.eia.gov/survey/#petroleum

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.
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 quantities to the nearest whole number in thousand barrels (42 U.S. gallons/barrel). 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 stocks as of the end of the report week (7:00 a.m. eastern time on Friday). Report all quantities corrected to 60 degrees
Fahrenheit (0F) less basic sediment and water (BS&W).

PART 1. RESPONDENT IDENTIFICATION DATA
•

Enter the month, day, year for which you are filing (e.g., January 6, 2023 is: Month 01 Day 06 Year 2023). The weekly report
EIA-806, Weekly Natural Gas Liquids Report

Page 1

period begins at 7:01 a.m. Eastern Time on Friday and ends at 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time on the following Friday.
•

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.

•

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

•

Enter the name of the reporting company.

•

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

•

Enter the site name of the facility.

•

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

•

Enter the 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.)

•

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.

PART 2. SUBMISSION/RESUBMISSION INFORMATION
Submission

Resubmission

AF
T

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

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.

R

SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS

PART 3. PRODUCTION OF NATURAL GAS LIQUIDS

D

Report production during the report week of natural gas plant liquids equal to barrels extracted from inlet natural gas.
Report production of condensate and scrubber oil as condensate (product 210).
There is no requirement for operators of fractionators to report barrels separated from a mixed natural gas liquids stream as production.
Reporting barrels fractionated from mixed natural gas liquids streams as production will double count barrels already reported as
production by operators of natural gas processing plants.

PART 4. STOCKS OF UNFRACTIONATED NATURAL GAS LIQUIDS
Report stocks of mixed natural gas liquids (y-grade) in custody of the natural gas processing plant in tanks and underground caverns
and stocks in transit to the plant by water and rail. Include stocks in custody of the plant regardless of ownership.
Exclude stocks in transit to the plant by pipeline when reporting stocks. Barrels in transit by pipeline will be reported by pipeline
operators on Form EIA-802 “Weekly Product Pipeline Report”.
Exclude stocks reported by product component in part 5.

PART 5. STOCKS OF FRACTIONATED NATURAL GAS LIQUIDS STORED AS SEPARATE PRODUCTS
Reporting by operators of natural gas liquids fractionators on Form EIA-806 is limited to stocks in custody of the fractionator in tanks
and underground storage.
Report fractionated natural gas liquid stocks by individual components stored in tanks and underground caverns and stocks in transit by
EIA-806, Weekly Natural Gas Liquids Report

Page 2

water and rail. Report all fractionated stocks in custody of the plant regardless of ownership.
Exclude stocks reported as mixed natural gas liquids (including y-grade) on Part 4 of the form.
Report stocks of condensate and scrubber oil as condensate (product 210).
Exclude barrels in transit to the plant by pipeline when reporting stocks. Barrels in transit by pipeline will be reported by pipeline
operators on Form EIA-802 “Weekly Product Pipeline Report”.
Combined Operations (Natural Gas Processing Plants and Fractionators)
Operators of natural gas processing plants that also operate a fractionator at the same location/facility may report production and/or stocks
of both operations on one Form EIA-806.
Reporting stocks of foreign origin
Report stocks of foreign origin after entry through customs. For purposes of this report, entry through customs is said to occur on one
of the following dates:
The “entry date” specified in block 7 of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Form 7501 “Entry Summary” or

•

The “import date” specified in block 5 on CBP Form 214A (Statistical Copy) “Application for Foreign Trade Zone Admission
and/or Status Designation or

•

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

AF
T

•

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(b), the DOE regulations, 10 C.F.R. §1004.11, implementing the FOIA, and
the Trade Secrets Act, 18 U.S.C. §1905.

R

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.

D

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.

SANCTIONS

The timely submission of Form EIA-806 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
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 0.75 hours 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, Office of Survey 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.

EIA-806, Weekly Natural Gas Liquids Report

Page 3