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(a) By producers-(1) Location; wells; allowable production. The location of the producing properties, the number and location of wells thereon, and the allowable production for each property and well as prescribed by the proper State agency.

(2) Owners. The names and addresses of all persons having any interest in or title to the petroleum at the time of its production, including those owning royalty or overriding royalty interests.

(3) Inventories. An opening and closing inventory of the crude petroleum on hand each 24 hour day.

(4) Production. The daily production in barrels of petroleum produced from each lease and well (estimated as to wells which are produced into common tankage and of which no separate gauge is made) with a notation of the allowance made for basic sediment and water, and the tanks, identified by number and location into which the petroleum is run.

(5) Consumption. The amount of petroleum consumed upon each property daily.

(6) Deliveries. A daily record of all deliveries of petroleum or petroleum products, showing the names and places of business of all persons to whom such petroleum or petroleum products are delivered, whether purchasers, consignees or transporting agencies, the quantity involved in each delivery, transportation or other disposition, the identity of the means of transportation by which the petroleum or products are removed, and the identifying numbers of State and Federal tenders.

(7) Tickets. Gauge tickets, and run tickets, as made by the employees actually performing or observing the operations to which such records relate.

(8) True copies. True and complete copies of all reports, communications and diagrams filed or required to be filed under this part.

(9) Tax records. Such other records as may now be required under the rules and regulations of other governmental agencies, State or Federal, which supervise, regulate or tax the production of petroleum.

(b) By every purchaser, refiner, storer, shipper or consignor of petroleum or petroleum products, by every casing-head gasoline plant, and by every person dealing in petroleum or petroleum products as a factor, broker, buyer or seller-(1) Inventories. An opening and closing inventory of petroleum and petroleum products on hand each 24 hour day.

(2) Receipts. The daily receipts of petroleum and the petroleum products showing the amount received, the place and date of each receipt, the tanks identified by location and number into which received, the names and addresses of all producers or other persons from whom the crude petroleum and the petroleum products were received, a description identifying the transporting agency by which received, and the identifying numbers of State and Federal tenders under which received.

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(3) Consumption. The amount of petroleum and petroleum products used or otherwise disposed of daily showing the amount run to stills and to cracking units and the amount and type of petroleum products refined, processed or manufactured.

(4) Deliveries; consignees; transporter; identification numbers. A daily record of all deliveries of petroleum and petroleum products including the names and addresses of purchasers and a description identifying the transporting agency delivering the same, and the identifying numbers of State and Federal tenders under which delivered.

(5) Employee records. Crude, pumping, still, transfer, and yield reports as made by the employees actually performing or observing the operations to which such records relate.

(6) True copies. True and complete copies of all reports, communications, and diagrams filed or required to be filed under this part.

(7) Tax records. Such other records as may now be required under the rules and regulations of other governmental agencies, State or Federal, which supervise, regulate or tax the purchasing, refining, storing, shipping or consigning or otherwise dealing in as a factor, broker, buyer or seller of petroleum and petroleum products. (c) By every person operating a reclamation plant-(1) Inventories. An opening and closing inventory of all petroleum and petroleum products on hand each 24 hour day.

(2) Receipts. The number of barrels of each kind of petroleum and petroleum products which came into the possession of such plant daily, the name and address of each person from whom possession was acquired, the location from which the petroleum and petroleum products were acquired, the quantities acquired from each prior possessor and from each location, a description identifying the transporting agency by which such petroleum and petroleum products were acquired, and the numbers identifying the State and Federal tenders under which acquired. In case any petroleum or petroleum product is picked up or reclaimed by such plant from any creek, river, stream or the bed thereof, such record shall also contain information as to the apparent source of the petroleum or petroleum product before it went into such creek, river, stream or the bed thereof.

(3) Reclamation; destination; identification. The number of barrels reclaimed by such plant daily and the disposition thereof showing the names and addresses of purchasers, a description identifying the transporting agency used in making delivery, and the identifying numbers of State and Federal tenders.

(4) Original records. The original records made by the employees actually performing or observing the operations to which such records relate as required by subparagraphs (1), (2), and (3). (5) True copies. True and complete copies of all reports, communications and diagrams filed or required to be filed under this part. (6) Tax records. Such other records as may now be required under the rules and regulations of all other governmental agencies,

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State or Federal, which supervise, regulate or tax the reclaiming or handling of petroleum or petroleum products.

(d) By pipe lines-(1) Inventories. An opening and closing inventory including overages of crude petroleum and petroleum products on hand each 24 hour day.

(2) Receipts; consignors; consignees; origin; destination; identification. The daily receipts of all petroleum and petroleum products showing the kind, grade and quantity received, the names and addresses of the consignors, the names and addresses of the consignees, the points of origin and destination, and the identifying numbers of State and Federal tenders covering the same.

(3) Locations; persons; transporting; agencies. In case of the first transporting pipe line, and where possible in cases of subsequent transporting pipe lines, the location of the properties where the petroleum or petroleum products were produced, refined, processed or manufactured, the names and addresses of persons removing the petroleum or petroleum products from the properties where produced, refined, processed or manufactured, and a description identifying the transporting agency used in making delivery from such properties. (4) Diversion; stoppage. A record of all shipments of petroleum or petroleum products diverted prior to reaching the original point of destination or stopped in the course of transportation, showing the disposition thereof.

(5) Shipping documents. Copies of all run-tickets, way bills, division and transfer orders and other documents used in the transportation of petroleum or petroleum products.

(6) True copies. True and complete copies of all reports, communications and diagrams filed or required to be filed under this part.

(7) Tax records. Such other records as may now be required under the rules or regulations of other governmental agencies, State or Federal, which supervise, regulate or tax the transportation of petroleum or petroleum products.

(e) By transporting agencies, other than pipe lines-(1) Shipments. The daily shipments of all petroleum and petroleum products showing the kind, grade and quantity transported, the names and addresses of the consignors, the names and addresses of the consignees, the points of origin and destination, the identifying numbers of State and Federal tenders, and in the case of railroads the car initials and numbers identifying the various shipments.

(2) Diversion or stoppage. A record of all shipments of petroleum or petroleum products diverted prior to reaching the original point of destination, or stopped in the course of transportation, showing the disposition thereof.

(3) Shipping documents. Copies of all way bills, bills of lading and other documents used in the transportation of petroleum or petroleum products.

(4) True copies. True and complete copies of all reports and communications filed or required to be filed under this part.

(5) Tax records. Such other records as may now be required under the rules or regulations of other governmental agencies, State

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or Federal, which supervise, regulate or tax the transportation of petroleum or petroleum products.

(f) Place of record. The records required by this section to be made and preserved shall be made currently as the transactions involved occur. Such records prescribed in paragraphs (a) (1), (3)(6) shall be kept on the lease or property to which they relate, or shall be kept in the field office or field headquarters from which the operations on such properties are conducted. Such records prescribed under paragraph (b)(1)−(4), paragraph (c) (1)-(3), and paragraph (d) (1)-(3), (5) shall be kept at the field office or field headquarters from which the operations involved are conducted. Such records prescribed under paragraph (e) (1), (3) shall be kept at the freight office where the shipping papers for any shipment originate.*† [Reg. XIII]

CROSS REFERENCES: For oil and gas operating regulations, see Part 221. For regulations of the Bureau of Internal Revenue relating to tax on petroleum and petroleum products, see 26 CFR Parts 308, 309. For regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission, see 49 CFR Chapter I.

402.14 Accurate billing. No transporting agency transporting petroleum or petroleum products from any designated area in interstate commerce shall accept for shipment any petroleum or any petroleum product unless the billing and other records of transportation covering such shipment truly and accurately describe by its proper and generally accepted name the commodity so shipped. Every transporting agency shall be held responsible for the truth of its records, way bills, bills of lading, division or transfer orders and other papers relating to such shipment, and shall be answerable as for a violation of the regulations in this part for each false billing of any such petroleum or petroleum product.*+ [Reg. XIII]

402.15 Monthly reports. Each producer, refiner, reclamation plant, casing-head gasoline plant, pipe line, and storer of petroleum or petroleum products in any designated area shall file with the Board for said area monthly reports on forms approved by the Secretary of the Interior. Each report on such forms shall be subscribed and sworn to by the person required to file the same, using the form of affidavit therein contained, and the person required to file the report must make therein a full, truthful and complete disclosure of all the information required on the form and necessary to the full use thereof.*+ [Reg. XIV]

402.16 Way bills. Each transporting agency, other than pipe lines, transporting petroleum or petroleum products in or from any designated area shall make available daily to the Board for said area for inspection copies of all way bills, or other papers fulfilling the functions thereof, covering the movement during the preceding day of petroleum or petroleum products in or from said area, both interstate and intrastate. Upon request of the Board such way bills or other papers shall be attached to an affidavit executed by a duly authorized agent of the transporting agency stating that the way bills or other papers cover all shipments of petroleum or petroleum products moved by the transporting agency during the period named therein.* [Reg. XV]

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**For statutory and source citations, see note to § 402.1.

402.17 Maps. Every producer, refiner, pipe line, gathering system, reclamation plant and casing-head gasoline plant within any designated area shall keep and maintain in the office of the Board for said area a diagram or diagrams which shall accurately and completely show to scale, so far as is applicable to that particular business, the location of each lease, the location and identifying number of each well, the location, capacity and identifying number of all tanks, the location and size of all pipe lines, flow lines and gathering systems operated by it, and the location and sizes of all pipe lines, flow lines, gathering systems and other outlets attached to its properties, and every method by which oil is delivered to and from its properties. Such diagrams shall be brought up to date at least semiannually or otherwise as the Board may require in order to show any change taking place in the information shown thereon, either by the filing of a new diagram or by corrections made upon the diagram on file.* [Reg. XVI]

402.18 Affidavits. When any affidavit or other sworn statement is required by this part, or by orders promulgated pursuant hereto or to said Act or Executive orders, to be made or filed by any person, such affidavit or sworn statement must be made or filed by any real person in interest owning, producing, refining, processing, manufacturing, transporting, withdrawing from storage or otherwise handling petroleum or petroleum products involved in the transaction or transactions which are the subject of such affidavit or sworn statement; provided, however, that such affidavit or sworn statement may be made or filed by a duly authorized agent of such real party in interest when proof of his authorization has been filed with the Board or other agency with which the affidavit or sworn statement is to be filed on or before the date of filing said affidavit or sworn statement.*+ [Reg. XVII]

402.19 Water-borne cargoes-(a) Form OCR-1. The shipper, or duly authorized agent of the shipper, a copy of whose authorization has been filed with the Petroleum Conservation Division of the Department of the Interior at its office in Washington, D. C., of a cargo of petroleum or petroleum products, or any part thereof, which has been loaded at any port in the State of Texas or Louisiana for shipment by tanker, barge, or other vessel, in whole or in part in interstate or foreign commerce, including the intermediate shipment to any point from which shipments of petroleum or petroleum products in interstate or foreign commerce customarily are made, shall transmit by mail to the Petroleum Conservation Division of the Department of the Interior at its office in Washington, D. C., with full postage paid, not later than 24 hours after the date of sailing, a report and affidavit in duplicate on form designated OCR-1, made and executed in accordance with instructions prescribed and approved by the Secretary of the Interior and appearing thereon.

(b) Form OCR-2. The master, owner, charterer, or duly authorized agent of the owner or charterer of any tanker, barge, or other vessel, a copy of whose authorization has been filed with the Petroleum Conservation Division of the Department of the Interior at its office in Washington, D. C., upon discharging at any port in the United

*For statutory and source citations, see note to § 402.1.

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