Federal obligations in petroleum refineries (NAICS 324110)

Fuel as a high-volume contracting NAICS

NAICS 324110 covers petroleum refineries. On USAspending.gov the code tags contract awards classified as that manufacturing industry: federal fuel buys, into-plane and bulk deliveries that contracting officers code to refineries, and related product orders. It is not a gallon count, and it is not the strategic petroleum reserve as an inventory statistic. The NAICS follows the award file.

Chartered freight air transportation (481212) is flying cargo, not refining fuel. Aircraft manufacturing is 336411. A logistics program can buy jet fuel under 324110 and lift under 481212. The $20.4 billion figure is only awards tagged 324110.

Why 477,727 awards sit under $20.4 billion

This is the extreme high-volume pattern in the set: hundreds of thousands of delivery orders and call orders for fuel, each an award record in USAspending, while the obligation total remains $20,408,466,848.49. Dollars per record are typically small compared with a ship or aircraft lot. The 477,727 count is not 477,727 refineries and not 477,727 unique fuel contracts in the everyday sense; it is how often agencies recorded a 324110-tagged action.

Obligations are commitments on those actions. Outlays follow deliveries. This packet has no fiscal-year split. Quote $20.4 billion as USAspending contract obligations coded to petroleum refineries, and keep the 477,727 award count so readers see the delivery-order firehose.

How not to misread a fuel table

A high award count with a moderate dollar total is expected for commodity fuel. It does not mean the industry is small in operational importance. It means the contracting pattern is many shipments. Open the industry page before inferring concentration; many small orders can still run through a short list of suppliers.

No other code in this industry set produces an award count like 477,727 under a $20,408,466,848.49 obligation total. That is USAspending contract awards tagged NAICS 324110, petroleum refineries: a delivery-order machine. Each call for fuel can be a row. The dollar total stays mid-pack because many rows are small. Do not convert the figure into gallons; this packet has no volume. Do not convert 477,727 into refineries. Chartered airlift tagged 481212 is flying, not refining. Cite USAspending, obligations, and the award count together every time. Outlays follow tickets and are unpublished here. The industry page is where to see whether those hundreds of thousands of rows still concentrate among a short supplier list.

What 324110 excludes

Assistance awards often lack NAICS and are outside this total. Crude extraction, if tagged to mining NAICS lines, sits elsewhere. Pipeline transportation and gasoline stations are different codes. Those neighboring tables are separate rollups.

SpendingVault aggregates USAspending.gov contract data. The $20,408,466,848.49 total and the 477,727 award count can change after corrections. The live industry page is the table of record.

Using the petroleum-refineries industry page

Open the PETROLEUM REFINERIES industry page for the award list under the headline. Compare 324110 with transportation and manufacturing codes on All industries. Cite obligations, not outlays, and never drop the 477,727 award count when you quote $20.4 billion.

Citing fuel-order volume without gallons

Cite $20,408,466,848.49 in USAspending obligations on 477,727 awards tagged NAICS 324110, petroleum refineries. Put 477,727 in the same sentence. That record count is the story: many delivery orders, not a handful of refinery construction jobs.

This packet does not report gallons, prices, or outlays. Do not convert $20.4 billion into volume. Chartered airlift is a different NAICS and is not included. Assistance is generally excluded. The industry page is where to see whether the long tail of fuel calls concentrates among a few suppliers.

Fuel contracting is the extreme high-volume NAICS in this set. The $20,408,466,848.49 total rides on 477,727 awards because delivery orders and call orders each become records. That is how a mid-pack dollar figure can have the longest award list. It is not 477,727 refineries. It is not gallons. This packet has neither volume nor unit price.

Into-plane and bulk fuel can share the code if tagged 324110. Extraction of crude, if tagged to mining, will not. Chartered airlift will not. Cite USAspending obligations on 477,727 awards coded petroleum refineries, and keep the award count attached so no one hears a small construction story. Outlays follow deliveries and are not in this file.

Questions

How much is obligated on NAICS 324110 petroleum refineries?

USAspending.gov contract awards coded NAICS 324110 show $20,408,466,848.49 in obligations across 477,727 awards. That total is obligations, not outlays, for petroleum refineries. USAspending.gov records the amount as contract obligations, not outlays, on awards tagged NAICS 324110.

Why are there 477,727 awards for about $20 billion?

Fuel contracting generates many delivery orders and call orders. Each is an award record. The 477,727 figure is that record count, not a count of refineries. The dollar total remains $20,408,466,848.49. The packet total is $20,408,466,848.49 across 477,727 awards; assistance awards often have no NAICS and stay outside the industry rollup.

Does this include chartered airlift?

Nonscheduled chartered freight air transportation is NAICS 481212. This table is refinery-coded fuel awards. Lift tagged 481212 is outside the $20,408,466,848.49 total. Treat the 477,727 figure as an award-record count, including orders and modifications, not as a physical inventory of products or sites.

Is the $20.4 billion gallons of fuel?

No. The figure is USAspending contract obligations tagged 324110. This packet does not report gallons. Outlays and volumes are different fields. This guide does not add a fiscal-year split. Quote the live industry page if you need the current award list under PETROLEUM REFINERIES.