Petroleum Refineries federal obligations in Michigan
Petroleum Refineries (NAICS 324110) shows $226,484,872.76 in USAspending.gov obligations coded to Michigan, across 89,653 awards. The pair is the industry code and the place-of-performance state (MI). Eighty-nine thousand six hundred fifty-three awards against $226,484,872.76 is a high-count, low-mean file. Recurring fuel actions can mint tens of thousands of rows without each row being a new refinery. The implied mean is about $2,526 per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical contract. Amounts are obligations, not outlays. No fiscal year is published in this packet.
Key figures
- NAICS 324110 in Michigan: $226,484,872.76 across 89,653 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $2,526 per record — a packet quotient, not a typical contract.
- NAICS 324110 × MI is not a measure of barrels refined, unique refineries, or named tank farms.
- Cite obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.
A thick refinery-coded file on Michigan
Petroleum Refineries as NAICS 324110, Michigan as place of performance: 89,653 records summing to $226,484,872.76. A 324110 award coded outside MI is out. An award in Michigan tagged to a different NAICS is out even if the work sounds related. Michigan (MI) excludes Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Illinois. An Ohio-coded refinery award is OH.
Eighty-nine thousand six hundred fifty-three awards against $226,484,872.76 is a high-count, low-mean file. Recurring fuel actions can mint tens of thousands of rows without each row being a new refinery. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 89,653 as 89,653 unique barrels refined, unique refineries, or named tank farms. Michigan federal spending is the all-industry state hub. NAICS 324110 is the industry book without a MI filter. Michigan industries lists other Michigan industry cells. All spending ties indexes other joins.
Do not read 89,653 as 89,653 unique Michigan refineries. Unique recipients are unpublished. Correlation is not causation: Michigan did not “cause” $226,484,872.76 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 324110 × MI only.
Barrels are unpublished
$226,484,872.76 does not measure barrels refined, unique refineries, or named tank farms. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with NAICS 324110 and a MI place-of-performance tag. Petroleum refineries are 324110. The NAICS is a manufacturing class, not a count of Michigan filling stations.
Do not treat 89,653 awards as a census of barrels refined, unique refineries, or named tank farms. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Michigan federal spending or NAICS 324110 matched $226,484,872.76 and 89,653, the join would be pointless. Keep both keys on. Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin 324110 joins are other pairs, not addends.
Michigan statewide, not a named-refinery map
Place of performance MI is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Michigan (MI) excludes Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Illinois. An Ohio-coded refinery award is OH. Recipient headquarters can differ from that state tag.
Do not read 89,653 as 89,653 unique Michigan refineries. Unique recipients are unpublished. This packet does not split $226,484,872.76 by city, county, or named facility. 89,653 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.
High volume still means obligations
Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $226,484,872.76 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Michigan confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.
Michigan’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 89,653-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $226,484,872.76. Eighty-nine thousand six hundred fifty-three awards is the row count as USAspending grouped it, not a count of barrels refined, unique refineries, or named tank farms.
Citing NAICS 324110 in Michigan
Cite USAspending.gov: Petroleum Refineries (NAICS 324110) obligated $226,484,872.76 on 89,653 awards coded to Michigan. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as barrels refined, unique refineries, or named tank farms.
Michigan federal spending still includes every other NAICS tagged to MI. NAICS 324110 is the 324110 parent without the MI filter. Michigan industries holds other Michigan industry joins. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $226,484,872.76.
A usable footnote names NAICS 324110, Michigan, $226,484,872.76, and 89,653. The compact headline $226M is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $2,526 is $226,484,872.76 divided by 89,653. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.
Questions
- How much has NAICS 324110 obligated in Michigan?
- USAspending.gov records $226,484,872.76 across 89,653 awards with NAICS 324110 and a Michigan place-of-performance tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of barrels refined, unique refineries, or named tank farms. Keep both keys when quoting $226,484,872.76.
- Is $226,484,872.76 a measure of barrels refined, unique refineries, or named tank farms?
- No. The packet publishes $226,484,872.76 and 89,653 awards for NAICS 324110 inside MI coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.
- Why does this 324110 file have 89,653 awards?
- That is the award-record count for 324110 × MI. Combined with $226,484,872.76, the average is about $2,526. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 89,653 is not unique barrels refined, unique refineries, or named tank farms. Later ingests can revise the count.
- Where are the parent tables for Petroleum Refineries in Michigan?
- Michigan federal spending and NAICS 324110 are the parents, not addends. Michigan industries lists other Michigan industry cells. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $226,484,872.76. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.
USAspending.gov NAICS industry aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.