Fuel Oil and Kerosene Sales 2000 is the 75th edition of a report series that began as the National Survey of Fuel Oil Distribution in 1926. The latter report resulted from a cooperative agreement between the U.S. Bureau of Mines and the American Petroleum Institute to conduct a survey in response to many requests for information on the consumption of "gas oil and fuel oil" in the United States.

The modern report continues the tradition of recording fuel oil sales by end-use category and by State. The three petroleum products covered by this report--distillate fuel oil, residual fuel oil, and kerosene--together accounted for nearly one-fourth of all petroleum products consumed in the United States in 2000. Because of the three fuels' large market share, knowing how and where they are used is fundamental in energy analysis.

The report's data are used to derive the Energy Information Administration's end-use consumption estimates for these three petroleum products in the historical integrated energy consumption summaries that appear in the Monthly Energy Review, the Annual Energy Review, and the State-level detail in the State Energy Data Report. The end-use sales groupings are aggregated to the five traditional sectors covered by those reports: residential, commercial, industrial (formed from the report's industrial, oil company, farm, off-highway, and other sales categories), transportation (from the railroad, vessel bunkering, on-highway, and military sales categories), and electric utilities.

Transportation uses accounted for nearly two-thirds of total distillate fuel oil sales in 2000. Diesel fuel for on-highway driving accounted for over half. The next largest share went for heating homes.

Residual fuel oil was heavily used for vessel bunkering in 2000, which accounted for almost half of all sales. Another third went to electric utilities, although sales in this category declined in 1999 and 2000.

Residences accounted for over two-thirds of 2000 kerosene sales; another fifth went to commercial sites. Industrial end uses and farms accounted for most of the balance.

Fuel Oil and Kerosene Sales by End Use, 2000
	Distillate Fuel Oil		Residual Fuel Oil		Kerosene
End Use	Volume (Million Gallons)	Percent Share	Volume (Million Gallons)	Percent Share	Volume (Million Gallons)	Percent Share
Residential	6,830	11.5	-	-	701	67.6
Commercial	3,706	6.2	664	5.0	220	21.2
Industrial	2,331	3.9	1,585	12.0	87	8.4
Oil Company	686	1.2	154	1.2	-	-
Farm	3,455	5.8	-	-	23	2.2
Electric Utilities	1,015	1.7	4,363	33.0	-	-
Railroad	3,291	5.5	-	-	-	-
Vessel Bunkering	2,261	3.8	6,410	48.5	-	-
On-Highway	33,130	55.6	-	-	-	-
Military	306	0.5	28	0.2	-	-
Off-Highway	2,589	4.3	-	-	-	-
Other	0	0.0	7	0.1	6	0.6
Total	59,600	100.0	13,211	100.0	1,036	100.0
- = Not applicable. Note: Totals may not equal sum of components due to independent rounding. Source: Energy Information Administration.

The report presents national end-use sales data for 1996 through 2000 and State-level end-use sales data for 1999 and 2000. Technical Notes describe the sampling frame, sample design, collection methods, data processing, and data reliability. Also included is a copy of the survey form ("Annual Fuel Oil and Kerosene Sales Report") used to collect the data.

Fuel Oil and Kerosene Sales 2000 is available only on the EIA website.

If you are having technical problems with this website, please contact the EIA Webmaster at wmaster@eia.doe.gov or call 202-586-8959. For general information about energy, contact the National Energy Information Center at 202-586-8800 or infoctr@eia.doe.gov.

Questions about the report's content should be directed to:

Daniel Walzer, Office of Oil and Gas

daniel.walzer@eia.doe.gov

Phone: (202) 586-3511

URL: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/plugs/plfuel00.html
File last modified: October 25, 2001