Petroleum Refineries federal obligations in California

Petroleum refineries and California as a pair

Petroleum Refineries as the NAICS industry, California as place of performance: 28,093 records summing to $1,127,094,727.78. An award in this industry coded outside CA is out. An award in California from a different NAICS is out even if the work sounds related. California (CA) excludes Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in California. California place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Los Angeles, San Diego, the Bay Area, or a named facility.

28,093 awards is a very high-count industry cell. Volume like this often accumulates on supply schedules, delivery orders, and modifications without each row being a new plant or a new program. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 28,093 as 28,093 unique establishments. The overlay path for this pair is the ties page for petroleum refineries in California. California federal spending is the all-industry state hub. NAICS 324110 is the industry book without a CA filter. California industries lists other NAICS cells inside the state. All spending ties lists other joins.

The implied mean is about $40,120 per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical invoice. On a very thick file the mean is pulled down by many small or modifying rows. Dollars and row counts tell different stories on the same join. Correlation is not causation: California did not “cause” $1,127,094,727.78 by existing as a large or small place, and NAICS 324110 did not “cause” the geography tag. Population, employment, and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 324110 × CA only.

Refinery coding, not a barrel ledger

$1,127,094,727.78 does not measure barrels refined, gallons delivered, or operating refineries. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. NAICS 324110 covers petroleum refineries: establishments primarily engaged in refining crude petroleum into fuels and other products as coded on the award. It is not a barrels-per-day series and not a count of operating plants. The cell sums award obligations with NAICS 324110 and a CA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 28,093 awards as a census of barrels refined. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If California federal spending or the national NAICS 324110 table matched $1,127,094,727.78 and 28,093, the join would be pointless. Use the ties page when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state cells for the same NAICS are other pairs, not addends.

California statewide, not a local map

Place of performance CA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. California (CA) excludes Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in California. Recipient headquarters can sit in another state while the place-of-performance tag remains CA. Contractor address is not this filter.

California place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Los Angeles, San Diego, the Bay Area, or a named facility. This packet does not split $1,127,094,727.78 by city, county, installation, or named facility. 28,093 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Do not infer a regional ranking from a single state×industry cell.

Obligations still are not outlays

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,127,094,727.78 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in California confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

California’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 28,093-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 $1,127,094,727.78. Campaign-finance filings are a different dataset; this page does not treat donations as funding these awards.

Citing Petroleum refineries in California

Cite USAspending.gov: Petroleum Refineries (NAICS 324110) obligated $1,127,094,727.78 on 28,093 awards coded to California. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as barrels refined, gallons delivered, or operating refineries.

Prefer the ties page for petroleum refineries in California if a live overlay has refreshed after an ingest. California federal spending still includes every other NAICS tagged to CA. NAICS 324110 is the industry parent without the CA filter. California industries is the state’s industry index. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,127,094,727.78.

A usable footnote names Petroleum Refineries, California, NAICS 324110, $1,127,094,727.78, and 28,093. The compact headline $1.13B is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $40,120 is $1,127,094,727.78 divided by 28,093. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated for petroleum refineries in California?

USAspending.gov records $1,127,094,727.78 across 28,093 awards with NAICS 324110 and a California place-of-performance tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of barrels refined. Keep both keys when quoting $1,127,094,727.78.

Does this total measure barrels refined?

No. The packet publishes $1,127,094,727.78 and 28,093 awards for NAICS 324110 inside CA coding. Barrels refined, gallons delivered, or operating refineries are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this California file have 28,093 awards?

That is the award-record count for 324110 × CA. Combined with $1,127,094,727.78, the average is about $40,120. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 28,093 is not unique barrels refined. Later ingests can revise the count.

Where is the live table?

California federal spending and NAICS 324110 are the parents, not addends. California industries lists other NAICS cells in the state. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $1,127,094,727.78. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.