California Code of Regulations › Title 20 - Public Utilities and Energy › Division 2 - State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission › Chapter 3 - Data Collection › Article 3 - Petroleum Information Reports › Section 1363.2 - Definitions: Specific Definitions for Purposes of Reporting Requirements

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
"1/1/1" means a pricing window associated with the loading or discharge of a marine vessel that is benchmarked to a published reference price (such as OPIS prompt spot LA CARBOB Regular) the business day before, business day of, and business day after title transfer has commenced.
"3-Day Wrap" means a pricing window associated with the pumping of a pipeline tender that is benchmarked to a published reference price (such as OPIS prompt spot LA CARBOB Regular) the business day before, business day of, and business day after the pumping of the tender has commenced.
"Additives" means compounds formulated to reduce the formation of engine deposits when combined with gasoline intended to be sold at retail or to other end-user customers. Additives can include registered generic or proprietary formulations.
"Adjusted Dealer Tank Wagon (ADTW)" means the delivered wholesale transaction price for gasoline transported by tanker truck to a retail dealer or franchisee that has been adjusted to reflect the "net cost" to the retail dealer or franchisee such that all rebates or other discounts are subtracted from the original dealer tank wagon (DTW) price to reflect the net cost of the gasoline to the retail dealer or franchisee.
"Airport retail fuel outlet" refers to a facility that stores and dispenses petroleum products, typically jet fuel and aviation gasoline for use in private and/or commercial aircraft. Airport refueling operations that provide refueling services to military aircraft are excluded from this definition.
"All other taxes and fees" means the volume-weighted average price of all taxes and fees, other than underground storage tank fees and fees related to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard or Cap-and-Trade Program, included in a wholesale gasoline sale (such as branded rack, unbranded rack, bulk, spot pipeline, dealer tank wagon, company-owned, company-operated, or sales to other end-users).
"API" means the American Petroleum Institute.
"Average Throughput" means the liquid volume transported by a pipeline during a specific period divided by the number of days in that period.
"Barrel" means a unit of liquid measurement that consists of 42 U.S. gallons.
"Book Transfer" means the completion of a spot market purchase or sale obligation without a physical movement or title transfer of the product as a result of two parties having purchase and sale contracts that serve to offset each other, directly or in a contractual chain with other parties.
"Branded Rack Sales" means wholesale sales, not exceeding the size of a truckload, of petroleum products sold under a brand name with a proprietary additive package included, where title transfers at a distribution terminal.
"Broker" means an entity that negotiates contracts of purchase and sale of spot market transactions that is not classified as a refiner or a trader.
"Bulk Sales" means wholesale sales of petroleum products in individual transactions that exceed the size of a truckload. Examples include without limitation marine vessel (product tanker or barge) and rail tank car.
"Bulk Terminal" means a storage and distribution facility not open to the public that is used primarily for wholesale marketing of petroleum products and oxygenates with a minimum storage capacity of 50,000 barrels.
"Bunkering" means the physical transfer of marine fuels from one marine vessel to another marine vessel.
"CARB" means the California Air Resources Board.
"Cardlock Retail Fuel Outlet" means a facility, normally unattended by any operator, that dispenses refined petroleum products to consumers as a sole or predominant activity of their business operation.
"Catalyst" means a substance used to accelerate or retard a chemical reaction in refinery process units (such as catalytic cracking, hydrocracking, hydrotreating, and reforming) without itself undergoing significant chemical change or change in volume during the process.
"CEC" means the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission or the California Energy Commission.
"Central Coast Region" means a geographic area in California that includes the counties of Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara.
"Company-Owned, Company-Operated Sale" means a sale of gasoline, on-highway diesel fuel, or propane for on-highway vehicle use by any company-owned outlet, such as a service station, under the direct control of the refiner, such that the refiner can set the retail product price and directly collect all or part of the retail margin. This category includes retail outlets:
(1) being operated by salaried employees of the refiner or its subsidiaries and affiliates, or
(2) involving personnel services contracted by the refiner.
"Contract Identification Number" means the unique identification number for a transaction, which reporting entities can self-assign based on internal requirements but must be alpha-numeric and not exceed 25 characters.
"Contract Position Identification Number" means the sequence number for each transaction under a spot market contract.
"Costs of Labor" means the sum of employee wages, employee benefits costs, and payroll taxes paid by an employer.
"Counterparty" means the entity identified by the reporting form filer as either the buyer or seller of a contract transaction.
"Crude Oil Acquisition Cost" means the cost of crude oil, including transportation and other fees paid by the refiner but not including the cost of crude oil purchased for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve or profits and losses from crude oil futures or options trading activity.
"Crude Oil Pipeline System" means a facility that receives its supply from pipeline gathering systems, tanker or barge, and has its terminals located at a refinery or waterside terminal and from which crude oil is shipped directly to one or more refineries in California or transported out of state. A crude oil pipeline system includes all points of origin, terminals, working tank storage capacity, and points of interconnection with crude oil pipeline systems operated by others.
"Dealer Tank Wagon (DTW)" means a delivered wholesale price for gasoline transported by tanker truck to a retail fuel outlet.
"Delivery Chain" means the list of all parties involved in final settlement from originating buyer to supplying seller.
"Desert Region" means a geographic area in California that includes the counties of Riverside and San Bernardino.
"Detergent Additive" means any chemical compound or combination of chemical compounds that are added to gasoline to control deposit formation and which may contain non-detergent-active components such as corrosion inhibitors, antioxidants, metal deactivators, and handling solvents.
"Ending Inventory" means the quantity (measured in thousands of barrels) of crude oil, petroleum products or oxygenates that is held as stocks at a refinery, bulk plant, public storage facility or tank farm at the end of a designated reporting period.
"EPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
"Exchange" means a transaction in which title or interest in petroleum products or crude oil stocks are transferred between firms in return for other petroleum products or crude oil stocks.
"Exchange Futures for Physical (EFP)" means a negotiated and simultaneous exchange of a futures position for a corresponding cash position, priced as a differential to a NYMEX futures reference product.
"Exporter" means a firm that is the owner of record at the point of loading for crude oil, petroleum products or oxygenates destined for export from California and has exported 20,000 barrels or more of any combination of crude oil, petroleum products or oxygenates during any month of the current or previous year.
"Exports" mean crude oil, petroleum products or oxygenates transported to destinations outside of California by means of marine vessel, rail car, tanker truck, or pipeline.
"Firm" means any person or entity engaged in any activity included in the Cal. Code of Regulations, Title 20, Public Utilities and Energy Division 2, Chapter 3, Article 3, Section 1361 et seq.
"Floating Price" means a pricing method for a spot market transaction in which the buyer and seller agree that the cash price will be determined at some future time and agree on an event or a specific timeframe and pricing reference from which the cash price will be set.
"Franchisee" means a retailer or distributor authorized or permitted, under a franchise, to use a trademark in connection with the sale, consignment, or distribution of motor fuel.
"Gasoline Blendstock" means any motor gasoline component intended for blending with oxygenates to produce finished conventional motor gasoline. It includes reformulated gasoline blendstock for oxygenate blending (RBOB) but excludes oxygenates (alcohols, ethers), butane, and pentanes plus.
"Gasoline Treated As Blendstock" means on-certified Foreign Refinery gasoline classified by an importer as blendstock to be either blended or reclassified with respect to reformulated or conventional gasoline.
"Gross Production" means total crude oil production, including all crude oil consumed in the production process.
"Hypermart Retail Fuel Outlet" means a facility, normally attended by one or more operators, that dispenses refined petroleum products to consumers as a subset of their primary business activity. The predominant business activity consists of the sale to ultimate consumers of non-petroleum goods and services.
"Importer" means a firm that is owner of record at the point of discharge for crude oil, petroleum products or oxygenates imported to California and has imported 20,000 barrels or more of any combination of crude oil, petroleum products or oxygenates during any month of the current or previous year. Importer also includes firms delivering 5,000 gallons or more of non-California fuels to a site in California by tanker trucks.
"Imports" include crude oil, petroleum products, oxygenates and non-California fuels that are transported to California from destinations originating outside of California by means of marine vessel, rail car, tanker truck, or pipeline.
"Independent Retail Fuel Outlet Operator" means a firm, other than a Refiner or Major Petroleum Products Marketer, that owns or leases a retail fuel outlet, that is engaged in the trade or business of purchasing refined petroleum products and reselling these products to consumers without substantially changing the form of these products.
"In-tank Transfer" means the change of ownership of inventory of refined petroleum product or renewable fuel on the books and records of a terminal operator where the buyer and seller are both terminal customers in the same storage tank in California.
"Intermediate Oil Product" means a general classification of refined petroleum product that is used in refinery processes to create a finished transportation fuel.
"Inter-tank Transfer" means the change of ownership of inventory of refined petroleum product or renewable fuel where the seller delivers material from one tank to a different tank owned or leased by the buyer and where the buyer and seller are both terminal customers.
"Landed Cost" means the sum of all expenses associated with importing the product. This includes, but is not limited to, price of goods, shipment cost, insurance fees, and customs duties.
"Lease" means a crude oil or natural gas producing property.
"Lease Storage Facilities" means storage tanks used to accumulate crude oil from producing properties prior to first sale or shipment.
"Los Angeles Basin Region" means a geographic area of California that includes the counties of Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura.
"Major Crude Oil Producer" means an operator or firm that produces crude oil in California, California tidelands or the Outer Continental Shelf adjacent to California tidelands in an amount greater than 20,000 barrels during any month of the current or preceding calendar year.
"Major Crude Oil Storer" means a firm or public storage facility, excluding refiners, that owns or operates a tank farm that stores or processes more than 50,000 barrels of crude oil at any time during the current or preceding calendar year.
"Major Crude Oil Transporter" means a firm that owns or operates a trunk pipeline and that has transported 20,000 barrels or more during any one month of the current or preceding calendar year. End users and public storage facilities that transport crude oil only between facilities owned or leased by such end users for their own use are not considered major crude oil transporters.
"Major Petroleum Products Marketer" means a firm that sells or sold 20,000 barrels or more of petroleum products during any month of the current or preceding calendar year, excluding service stations or truck stops. An electric utility shall not be considered a major petroleum products marketer unless it has sold or otherwise disposed of, other than through its own consumption, 20,000 barrels or more of petroleum products per month during any four months of the current or preceding calendar year.
"Major Petroleum Products Storer" means a facility that produced or received into storage a minimum of 50,000 barrels of any combination of petroleum products or oxygenates during any month of the current or preceding calendar year.
"Major Petroleum Products Transporter" means a firm that owns or operates a petroleum product pipeline, trucks, tankers, barges or railroad cars, and that transported 20,000 barrels or more of petroleum products during any month of the current or preceding calendar year. End users that transport products only between facilities owned or leased by such end users for their own use shall not be considered major petroleum products transporters. Public storage facilities that transport petroleum product only between their owned and operated storage, terminal, or warehousing operations shall not be considered major petroleum product transporters.
"Marina Retail Fuel Outlet" means a facility, normally attended by one or more operators, that dispenses refined petroleum products to ultimate consumers for use in recreational or commercial marine craft. A marina retail fuel outlet does not include businesses that dispense marine fuels by the bunkering process.
"Marine Exports" mean crude oil, petroleum products or oxygenates that are transported to destinations outside of California by means of a marine vessel.
"Marine Facility Operator" means an operator of a facility of any kind, other than a marine vessel or tank barge that is used for the purposes of importing, exporting, storing, handling, transferring, processing, refining or transporting crude oil or petroleum products. A Marine Facility Operator does not include the person or entity that owns the land where the marine facility is located unless the person or entity is involved in the operation of the marine facility.
"Marine Fuels Distributor" means one of the following: a firm that owns or operates marine vessels that are used wholly or in part to deliver 20,000 barrels or more of marine fuels during any month of the current or previous year to other marine vessels or a firm that delivers 20,000 barrels or more of marine fuels to marine vessels during any month of the current or previous year from storage tanks rather than from marine vessels. The transfer of these marine fuels is referred to as bunkering.
"Marine Imports" mean crude oil, petroleum products or oxygenates transported to California from destinations originating outside of California by means of a marine vessel.
"Marine Vessel" is a waterborne tanker or barge used to convey crude oil, petroleum products or oxygenates.
"Maximum Storage Tank Capacity" means the maximum volume of crude oil, petroleum product or oxygenate that can be safely discharged into an individual storage tank without exceeding the high level design limits.
"Maximum Throughput" means the maximum liquid volume that may be transported through a pipeline for an indefinite period without damaging any pipeline equipment.
"Mountain Region" means a geographic area in California that includes the counties of Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Inyo, Lassen, Modoc, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Trinity and Tuolumne.
"Net-Out" means a type of settlement that is consummated through an exchange of cash, instead of through physical delivery of the product.
"Non-California Fuel" means finished motor gasoline and No. 2 diesel fuel that does not meet CARB standards sold in California at retail locations that dispense transportation fuels.
"Non-California Fuel Transporter" means a firm that owns or operates tanker trucks that are used wholly or in part to deliver 5,000 gallons or more of fuels that do not meet CARB regulations to retail locations in California during any month of the current or previous year.
"North Coast Region" means a geographic area in California that includes the counties of Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake and Mendocino.
"Northern California Region" means a geographic area in California that includes the counties of Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, Merced, Stanislaus, Alameda, San Joaquin, Tuolumne, Calaveras, Mono, Alpine, Amador, Sacramento, Solano, Napa, Marin, Sonoma, Yolo, El Dorado, Placer, Sutter, Colusa, Lake, Mendocino, Glenn, Butte, Nevada, Sierra, Yuba, Plumas, Tehama, Lassen, Shasta, Trinity, Humboldt, Del Norte, Siskiyou, Mariposa, Madera, Modoc, Contra Costa, San Luis Obispo, Kern, Inyo, Tulare, Kings, Monterey, San Benito and Fresno.
"Notice of Readiness (NOR)" means a communication provided by a marine vessel owner or agent that the vessel has arrived and is ready for loading or discharge at a designated berth within a designated period of time.
"Number of Sites" means the number of different locations for a specified region of California that receive DTW fuel during a reporting period.
"OPEC" means the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. The countries belonging to this organization are subdivided into the following geographic regions:
(a) "Middle East OPEC" means the countries of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
(b) "Non-Middle East OPEC" means the countries of Algeria, Libya, Nigeria and Venezuela.
"Operator" means any person drilling, maintaining, operating, pumping, or in control of any well as defined by the California Public Utilities Commission or by the California Department of Conservation's Division of Oil and Gas, & Geothermal Resources.
"PIIRA" means the Petroleum Industry Information Reporting Act.
"Pipeline" means a crude oil pipeline system or product pipeline system.
"Pipeline Delivery Subcycle" means the contract subcycle for pipeline deliveries given by the pipeline company transporting the product.
"Pipeline Exports" mean crude oil, petroleum products or oxygenates that are transported to destinations outside of California by means of a pipeline.
"Pipeline Imports" means crude oil, petroleum products or oxygenates that are transported to California from destinations originating outside of California by means of a pipeline.
"Pipeline Gathering System" means a pipeline system that collects crude oil from lease storage facilities and delivers it to a crude oil pipeline system.
"Pipeline Storage Tanks" means a storage facility owned by a pipeline firm and located at the points of origin and at terminals of pipeline segments used to maintain normal pipeline operations.
"Position Sequence Number" means the location identifier assigned by the pipeline company shipping the product.
"PPM" means parts per million.
"Price Basis" means the type of pricing method agreed upon between counterparties for a trade.
"Pricing Event" means a pricing occurrence for floating price contracts that was agreed to at the time of contract that relates to a specific date or range of dates associated with the title transfer that determines the value of the settlement.
"Producing Property" means property that produced crude oil during the reporting period in an amount as to require reporting of production to the California Department of Conservation's Division of Oil and Gas, & Geothermal Resources.
"Product Pipeline System" means a system that transports petroleum products from refineries or bulk terminals or marine facilities to other terminals or interconnections with other pipelines; a product pipeline system does not include interconnections within a terminal facility or those lines connecting public storage facilities to one another. A product pipeline system includes all points of origin, terminals, working tank storage capacity and points of interconnection with product pipeline systems operated by others.
"Public Storage Facility" means a public liquid bulk storage, terminal, or warehousing operation for hire in which the owner or operator of the facility has no ownership interest in any of the materials stored on contract with its customers.
"Pump-over Transfer" means the transfer of physical inventory and ownership of refined petroleum product or renewable fuel on the books and records of a terminal operator from one storage tank to another where the buyer and seller are both terminal customers.
"Rail Car" means a railroad car that is used to transport crude oil, petroleum products or oxygenates via a network of railroad tracks.
"Rail Exports" mean crude oil, petroleum products or oxygenates that are transported to destinations outside of California by means of rail.
"Rail Imports" mean crude oil, petroleum products or oxygenates that are transported into California from destinations originating outside of California by means of rail.
"Receipts" mean delivery of crude oil, petroleum products or oxygenates into storage tanks located at the refinery, bulk plant, public storage facility or tank farm for the specified reporting period from tanker truck, marine vessel, rail car or pipeline.
"Refiner" means a firm that produces or alters products or blends to manufacture liquid hydrocarbons from oil and gas field gases, recovers liquefied petroleum gases incident to petroleum refining or produces fuel ethanol and sells those products to resellers, retailers, reseller/retailers or ultimate consumers.
"Refinery" means a facility, regardless of processing capacity, that manufactures transportation fuel products including, but not limited to, finished petroleum products, unfinished products from crude oil, unfinished oils, natural gas liquids, other hydrocarbons, and oxygenates and fuel ethanol.
"Refinery Fuel Use and Losses During the Month" means all fuel consumed at the reporting facility except non-processing losses (spills, fire losses, contamination, etc.).
"Refinery Storage Facility" means storage located on a refinery site or operated in conjunction with a refinery that primarily receives its petroleum product directly from a refiner.
"Renewable Identification Number (RIN)" means a serial number assigned to a batch of biofuel for the purpose of tracking its production, use, and trading as required by the US EPA's renewable fuels standard (RFS).
"Retail Fuel Outlet" means an individual business location that dispenses refined petroleum products or alternative fuels to ultimate consumers.
"Retailer" means a firm that carries on the trade or business of purchasing refined petroleum products and reselling them to ultimate consumers without substantially changing their form.
"Sacramento Valley Region" means a geographic area in California that includes the counties of Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Sacramento, Shasta, Sutter, Tehama, Yolo and Yuba.
"Sale to Other End-Users" means a direct sale to an end-user not made through company-operated retail outlets. This term includes sales to non-retail station bulk consumers including, but not limited to, agriculture, industry, and utilities, as well as residential and commercial consumers. Sales made to retail outlets other than those operated directly by the reporting company, or its affiliates or subsidiaries, must be included in the following wholesale sales categories as applicable: DTW, Branded Rack, Unbranded Rack, or Bulk.
"San Diego Region" means a geographic area in California that includes the counties of Imperial and San Diego.
"San Francisco Bay Area Region" means a geographic area in California that includes the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano and Sonoma.
"San Joaquin Valley Region" means a geographic area in California that includes the counties of Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Tulare.
"Service Station" means a retail fuel outlet, normally attended by one or more operators, that dispenses refined petroleum products to ultimate consumers as the sole or predominant activity of their business operation.
"Settlement" means the final step in a transaction and represents either transfer of ownership involving the physical exchange of securities or payment and verification of the quantity of product exchanged, whichever is later.
"Shipment Issued Entity" means the party that a request for shipment was tendered to by a purchaser of product.
"Southern California Region" means a geographic area in California that includes the counties of Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Imperial.
"Spot Market Transaction" means a trade in which petroleum products, including blendstocks for finished petroleum products, are purchased on the spot for delivery by pipeline, inter-tank transfer, pump-over transfer, in-tank transfer, marine vessel, rail car discharge, or imports.
"Spot Pipeline Sale" means a sales transaction that physically changes hands at a refinery gate or other major pricing hub for delivery on a pipeline in either the Los Angeles or San Francisco spot pipeline markets. This term also includes without limitation pump-over and in-tank transfer delivery methods.
"Stocks" mean volumes of crude oil, petroleum products or oxygenates (corrected to 60 degrees Fahrenheit less basic sediment and water) of domestic origin held at refineries, bulk plants, public storage facilities or tank farms. Crude oil and petroleum products in transit by pipeline are excluded. Stocks include foreign stocks held at refineries, bulk plants, public storage facilities or tank farms only after entry through Customs for domestic consumption. Stocks of foreign origin held in bond and/or in transit by pipeline are excluded.
"Support Staff," for purposes of this article, include temporary independent contractors hired by the CEC for the sole purpose of performing PIIRA data entry. Support staff will be subject to all PIIRA confidentiality requirements.
"Tank Farm" means a facility, not available for public storage, used for the storage of crude oils, petroleum products or oxygenates with total combined storage capacity of 50,000 barrels or more which receives crude oil, petroleum products and oxygenates by tanker truck, marine vessel, rail car or pipeline and does not contain lease storage facilities.
"Tank Heel" means the volume of crude oil, petroleum product or oxygenate that remains in a storage tank at the lowest operable level.
"Tanker Truck" means a motorized vehicle with an attached storage vessel that is used to transport crude oil, petroleum products, oxygenates or non-California fuels overland.
"TEOR" means thermally enhanced oil recovery.
"Terminal Operator" means a firm that owns, leases or operates a bulk terminal, tank farm or public storage facility and provided storage services of 50,000 barrels or more of any combination of crude oil, petroleum products or oxygenates during any month of the current or previous year and includes refiners.
"Trader" means an individual, company, or other entity that does not have a refining presence in California but either sells or takes possession of refined petroleum products or renewable fuels, or both, via spot market transactions.
"Transportation Fuel Product" means gasoline, blending components, diesel fuel, aviation fuel, and renewable fuels.
"Truck Stop Retail Fuel Outlet" means a facility, normally attended by one or more operators, that is accessible to operators of heavy duty on-road motor vehicles and dispenses refined petroleum products to ultimate consumers as a sole or predominant activity of their business operation.
"Turnaround" has the same meaning as in Section 7872 of the Labor Code.
"Unbranded Rack Sales" means wholesale truckload sales or smaller of petroleum products where title transfers at a distribution terminal. Unbranded gasoline is not associated with a specific brand name and is typically sold by single-station retail outlets, relatively small chain retailers that specialize in gasoline sales, and large supermarket chain stores.
"Usable Storage Tank Capacity," when used in connection with crude oil or petroleum product pipeline systems, bulk terminals, tank farms and public storage facilities, means the total liquid storage volume less that volume that cannot be used for normal operations (tank heel, basic sediment, and water, corrected to 60 degrees Fahrenheit).
U.S.C. " means United States Code.
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