Table E2.1.    Nonfuel (Feedstock) Use of Combustible Energy, 1998;
                        Level: National Data;
                        Row: Values of Shipments and Employment Sizes;
                        Column: Energy Sources;
                        Unit: Trillion Btu.
                   
              RSE
Economic Residual Distillate LPG and Coke and   Row
Characteristic(a) Total Fuel Oil Fuel Oil(b) Natural Gas(c) NGL(d) Coal Breeze Other(e) Factors
Total United States
RSE Column Factors: 0.6 1.4 3.2 0.5 0.4 1.5 1.3 1.0
Value of Shipments and Receipts
(million dollars)
  Under 20 81 * 7 15 40 Q 1 15 14.6
  20-49 162 27 1 59 Q 17 1 55 11.4
  50-99 307 20 1 174 26 42 1 42 15.0
  100-249 559 11 * 212 215 15 10 95 2.6
  250-499 719 * * 115 509 53 3 38 1.2
  500 and Over 1,860 * 1 207 954 541 8 149 1.0
  Not Ascertained (f) 3,653 0 0 0 0 0 0 3,653 0.0
Total 7,340 58 10 782 1,746 671 23 4,048 3.9
Employment Size
  Under 50 105 * W 29 51 W 1 14 24.1
  50-99 332 27 W 96 86 W * 116 9.2
  100-249 670 31 2 267 271 44 4 51 6.1
  250-499 768 * * 110 512 55 5 87 2.1
  500-999 589 * 1 156 338 1 6 87 1.6
  1000 and Over 1,222 * 1 124 488 563 7 40 1.0
  Not Ascertained (f) 3,653 0 0 0 0 0 0 3,653 0.0
Total 7,340 58 10 782 1,746 671 23 4,048 3.9
    (a) Value of Shipments and Receipts and Employment Size categories were supplied by the
Bureau of the Census.
    (b) 'Distillate Fuel Oil' includes Nos. 1, 2, and 4 fuel oils and Nos. 1, 2, and 4
diesel fuels.
    (c) 'Natural Gas' includes natural gas obtained from utilities, local distribution companies,
and any other supplier(s), such as independent gas producers, gas brokers, marketers,
and any marketing subsidiaries of utilities.
    (d) Examples of Liquefied Petroleum Gases '(LPG)' are ethane, ethylene, propane, propylene,
normal butane, butylene, ethane-propane mixtures, propane-butane mixtures, and isobutane
produced at refineries or natural gas processing plants, including plants that fractionate raw
Natural Gas Liquids '(NGL).'
    (e) 'Other' includes all other energy that respondents indicated was used for nonfuel
purposes, i.e., as petrochemical feedstocks or raw material inputs.  See also Footnote 'f'.
    (f) The entry in the 'Not Ascertained' row and the 'Other' column consists
of the feedstocks and raw material inputs that were consumed by petroleum
refineries for the production of nonenergy products (i.e., asphalt, waxes,
lubricants, and solvents), as well as feedstock consumption at adjoining
petrochemical plants.  That entry includes all of those inputs, regardless of
type.  Those inputs that were converted to other energy products by petroleum
refineries (e.g., crude oil converted to residual and distillate fuel oils) are excluded.
    NF=No applicable RSE row/column factor.
    * Estimate less than 0.5.
    W=Withheld to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments.
    Q=Withheld because Relative Standard Error is greater than 50 percent.
    NA=Not available.
    Notes:  To obtain the RSE percentage for any table cell, multiply the cell's
corresponding RSE column and RSE row factors.   Totals may not equal sum of
components because of independent rounding.   The derived estimates presented
in this table are for the first use (formerly primary consumption) of energy
as feedstocks or raw material inputs.  First use is defined as the
consumption of the energy that was originally produced offsite or was produced
onsite from input materials not classified as energy.  Examples of the latter
are hydrogen produced from the electrolysis of brine; the output of captive
(onsite) mines or wells; woodchips, bark, and woodwaste from wood purchased as
a raw material input; and waste materials, such as wastepaper and packing
materials.  First use excludes quantities of energy that are produced
from other energy inputs and, therefore, avoids double counting.
    Source: Energy Information Administration, Office of Energy Markets
and End Use, Energy Consumption Division, Form EIA-846, '1998 Manufacturing
Energy Consumption Survey,' and Office of Oil and Gas, Petroleum
Supply Division, Form EIA-810, 'Monthly Refinery Report' for 1998, and the Bureau
of the Census, data files for the '1998 Annual Survey of Manufactures.'