Manufacturing and Energy Division
The following provides information to assist in completing the Annual Survey of Secondary Distributors of Refined Petroleum Products.
For assistance in completing this questionnaire, please call: 1-866-445-4323.
Motor Gasoline: All gasoline type fuels for internal combustion engines including any ethanol/methanol and other similar additives blended.
Diesel Fuel Oil: All grades of distillate fuel used for diesel engines used on road, off road, in marine and railroad transport, regardless of the tax status of the diesel sold (dyed/marked and clear diesel), including any biodiesel blended with fuel.
Heating Fuel Oil: All distillate type fuels used for power burners. Include fuel oil no.1, fuel oil no. 2, fuel oil no. 3, stove oil, furnace fuel oil, gas oils and light industrial fuel. Include all heating fuel sales, including any biodiesel blended with fuel.
Heavy Fuel Oil: All grades of residual type fuels including low sulphur used for steam and electric power generation and steam and diesel motors installed on large marine vessels. Include fuel oil nos. 4, 5 and 6. Sometimes referred to as bunker fuel B or C.
NOTE: If you sold refined petroleum products blended with biofuels to your customers, please check off the appropriate circle in the column provided on each page of the questionnaire.
Distribution of litres of fuel sold by type of customers (including biofuels)
The following definitions relate to lines 1 to 27 of the questionnaire and provide some guidelines on how to report your sales by type of customers.
Line 1 - Total Number of Litres Used for Own
Consumption
Report all amounts of refined petroleum products
purchased that were used in company operations (i.e.,
used for your vehicles or heating).
Line 2 - Total Number of Litres Sold (Including
Biofuels)
Provide the total amount of litres of refined petroleum
products available for re-sale. This amount excludes
products purchased and used in company operations
such as heating and transportation, and third party
carrier fuel.
Line 3 - Residential
Report all sales destined to be used in personal
residences including single family residences, apartment
buildings, apartment hotels, and condominiums.
Line 4 - Sales to Wholesalers and Dealers of
Refined Petroleum Products
Report all sales to companies primarily engaged in
the wholesaling or direct selling of refined petroleum
products
Line 5 - Gasoline Stations (total litres sold from
your own gasoline stations and to those owned
by others)
Report all sales to companies primarily engaged in
retailing motor fuels, whether or not the gasoline station
is operated in conjunction with a convenience store,
repair garage, restaurant or other type of operation.
Companies that operate gasoline stations on behalf of
their owners and receive a commission on the sale of
fuels are also included. Exclude sales to marinas -
include those at line 26, Other Commercial and
Institutional Sales.
Line 6 - Railway Transportation Companies and
Support Activities
Report all sales to companies primarily engaged
in operating railways. Sales to companies primarily
engaged in the operation of long haul or mainline
railways, short-haul railways, passenger railways and
in providing specialized services to the rail transport
industry should also be included in line 6.
Line 7 - Road Transportation Companies and
Support Activities
Report all sales to companies primarily engaged in
the truck transportation of goods and in transit and
ground passenger transportation (including urban
transit systems, interurban and rural bus transportation,
taxi and limousine services, school and employee bus
transportation, charter bus industry, limousine service
to airports and stations, shuttle services and special
needs passenger transportation services), scenic and
sightseeing transportation, and all sales to companies
primarily engaged in providing specialized services
to trucking companies, bus operators and other
establishments using the road network. (examples:
motor vehicle towing, snow removal)
Line 8 - Marine Transportation – Canadian Marine
Vessels
Report all sales made in Canada to companies primarily
engaged in the water transportation of passengers and
goods and provided by ships of Canadian registry (flag).
Line 9 - Marine Transportation – Foreign Marine
Vessels
Report all sales made in Canada to companies primarily
engaged in the water transportation of passengers and
goods and provided by ships of foreign registry (flag).
Line 10 - Food Manufacturers
Report all sales to companies primarily engaged in
producing food for human or animal consumption. These
companies typically sell to wholesalers or retailers, for
distribution to consumers.
Line 11 - Paper Manufacturers
Report all sales to companies primarily engaged in
manufacturing pulp, paper and paper products.
Line 12 - Iron and Steel Manufacturers
Report all sales to companies primarily engaged in smelting iron ore and steel scrap to produce pig iron
in molten or solid form and in converting pig iron into
steel by the removal, through combustion in furnaces,
of the carbon in the iron. Also include in line 12 sales
to companies primarily engaged in manufacturing iron
and steel pipe and tube, drawing steel wire, and rolling
steel shapes, from purchased steel and sales to iron
and steel foundries.
Line 13 - Aluminum and Non-ferrous Metal
Manufacturing and Processing Companies
Report all sales to companies primarily engaged in
the making of aluminum and in the smelting, refining,
rolling, drawing, extruding and alloying non-ferrous
metals, except aluminum. Also include in line 13 sales
to non-ferrous metal foundries.
Line 14 - Cement Manufacturers
Report all sales to companies primarily engaged in the
production of clinker and subsequent grinding of clinker
using either dry or wet production processes.
Do not include sales to manufacturers of ready-mix concrete or concrete products; these sales should reported on line 17 under sales to ‘Other Manufacturers’
Line 15 - Petroleum and Coal Products
Manufacturers
Report all sales to companies primarily engaged in
transforming crude petroleum and coal into intermediate
and end products. The dominant process is petroleum
refining, which separates crude petroleum into
components or fractions through such techniques as
cracking and distillation.
Line 16 - Chemical and Fertilizer Manufacturers
Report all sales to companies primarily engaged in
manufacturing chemicals and chemical preparations,
from organic and inorganic raw materials
Line 17 - Other Manufacturers
Report all sales to manufacturing companies not
covered in lines 10 to 16. This category comprises
companies which are primarily engaged in the following
manufacturing activities:
Line 18 - Iron Mines
Report all sales to companies primarily engaged in
mining, beneficiating or otherwise preparing iron ores.
Line 19 - Oil and Natural Gas Extraction and
Support Activities
Report all sales to companies primarily engaged
in exploration of and/or production of crude oil and
natural gas, including whether by conventional or nonconventional
methods (i.e. oil sands mining) and to
companies primarily engaged in providing support
services, on a contract or fee basis, required for the
extraction of oil and gas (includes oil and gas contract
drilling, offshore drilling).
Line 20 - Other Mining and Support Activities
Report all sales to companies primarily engaged in
mining activities other than iron mines and to companies
primarily engaged in providing support services, on
a contract or fee basis, required for the mining and
quarrying of minerals. This category includes coal
mines, metal ore mines (except iron mines reported on
line 18), non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying.
Examples: coal, gold, silver, lead/zinc, granite, asbestos, potash and diamond mines; sand, gravel, clay, ceramic and refractory minerals mining and quarrying, draining and pumping of mines on a contract basis.
Line 21 - Forestry, Logging, Fishing and Support
Activities
Report all sales to companies primarily engaged in
growing and harvesting timber on a long production
cycle (of ten years or more), in the commercial catching
or taking of finfish, shellfish, and other marine animals
from their natural habitats, and providing support
services that are essential to forestry, logging and
fishing;
Exclusion: aquaculture (please report sales to aquaculture companies under line 22)
Line 22 - Farmers, Hunters, Trappers and Support
Activities
Report all sales to companies primarily engaged in
growing crops, plants, vines, trees and their seeds;
raising animals, producing animal products and
fattening animals; commercial hunting and trapping, and
operating and managing commercial game preserves
and providing support services that are essential to
agricultural and forestry production.
Examples: oilseed and grain farming, vegetable, fruit and tree nut farming, greenhouses, nurseries and floriculture production, tobacco and cotton farming, cattle ranching and farming, poultry and egg production, sheep and goat farming, aquaculture, apiculture, orchard fruit picking by hand, planting crops, animal breeding services, reforestation services.
Line 23 - Construction Companies and Related
Activities
Report all sales to companies primarily engaged in
constructing, repairing and renovating buildings and
engineering works, and in subdividing and developing
land, and in trade activities generally needed in the
construction of buildings and structures, such as
masonry, painting, or electrical work.
Examples: Construction of Buildings (residential and non-residential), Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction (Utility systems, road, street, bridge construction and land subdivision); Foundation, Structure, and Building Exterior Contractors (i.e. framing, masonry, glass, roofing, siding contractors, etc.); Building Equipment Contractors (electrical, plumbing, etc.); Building Finishing Contractors (drywall, painting, flooring, tile, finish carpentry and building finishing contractors); Other specialty trade contractors such crane rental with operator and companies primarily engaged in site preparation activities, such as excavating, grading and demolition of buildings.
Line 24 - Public Administration
Report all sales to organisations primarily engaged in
activities of a governmental nature, that is, the enactment
and judicial interpretation of laws and their pursuant
regulations, and the administration of programs based
on them.
Examples: federal, provincial/territorial, local, municipal and regional public administration; federal government’s defence services, crown corporations, Courts of Law (federal, provincial, municipal), immigration services; the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, provincial and municipal police services; federal, provincial and municipal correctional services; provincial and municipal fire-fighting services; federal and provincial labour and employment services; federal and provincial regulatory services (i.e. occupational safety and health standards services safety, alcoholic beverage control boards); aboriginal public administration, etc.
Line 25 - Electric Power Generation Companies
Report all sales to companies primarily engaged in
the generation of bulk electric power by hydro-electric,
fossil fuel, nuclear or other processes. Sales to Electric
Power Transmission and distribution companies should
be reported in the ‘Other Commercial and Institutional Sales’ category (line 26).
Line 26 - Other Commercial and Institutional
Customers
Report on line 26 all sales (total litres sold) to companies
not covered in lines 3 to 25 of the questionnaire.
The ‘Other Commercial and Institutional Customers’ category comprises companies which are primarily engaged in the following activities:
Electric Power Transmission and Distribution
Example: if your company sold diesel fuel to marinas, hospitals, universities and real estate companies, then total numbers of litres of diesel fuel sold to all these customers and report it on line 26.
Line 27 - Total Number of Litres Sold including
Biofuels
Report the total number of litres of fuel, including all litres
of biofuel blended with fuel, sold during the calendar
year. Line 27 is the sum of lines 3 to 26.
Please note that the amount reported on line 27 must be equal to amount reported in line 2.
If you are blending ethanol or purchasing gasoline already blended with ethanol please report total number of litres of ethanol sold in lines 1a and/or line 2a. Do not report sales of ethanol not blended to gasoline.
Line 1a - Total Number of Litres of Ethanol Sold
(Blended by yourself)
If you purchased motor gasoline that did not contain any
ethanol, please report total number of litres of ethanol
that you blended into the gasoline you sold
Line 1b - Please indicate source(s) of ethanol used;
check all that apply
Check in the appropriate box to indicate the source of
ethanol used. Check all that apply.
If not wheat or corn, check ‘Other’ and please specify the source in the box provided
Line 2a - Total Number of Litres of Ethanol Sold
(Purchased Blended)
If you purchased motor gasoline already blended with
ethanol, please report total number of litres of ethanol
contained in the motor gasoline you sold.
Line 2b - Please indicate source(s) of ethanol used;
check all that apply
Check in the appropriate box to indicate the source of
ethanol used. Check all that apply.
If not wheat or corn, check ‘Other’ and please specify the source in the box provided.
The following instructions relate to the biofuels you blended with the diesel and heating fuels you sold. Do not report sales of biodiesel not blended to diesel or heating fuel.
Line 1 - Total Number of Litres of Biodiesel Sold
If you are selling Diesel Fuel Oil or Heating Fuel Oil
blended with biodiesel, please report the number of litres
of biodiesel sold.
Line 2 - Please Indicate Source(s) of Biodiesel Used Below. Check all that apply.
Please check all relevant circle boxes.
If the source of biodiesel is not in the list provided,
please check ‘Other’ and indicate the source in the box
provided