SB 767 imposes comprehensive new reporting obligations across the fuel supply chain in California. It requires monthly and weekly submissions from refiners, major marketers, pipeline operators, ports, importers, nonrefining traders, and others covering feedstocks, receipts, inventories, exports, contracts, spot transactions, maintenance schedules, and pipeline operating parameters.
The bill matters because it moves California from periodic, aggregated fuel data toward near–real-time, contract-level transparency. That promises better market monitoring and emergency planning but also forces industry to produce and safeguard highly sensitive commercial and infrastructure data and creates new compliance costs and operational workflows.
At a Glance
What It Does
SB 767 expands the commission’s data collection authority to require detailed monthly, weekly, and daily reports about feedstocks, refinery outputs, inventories, imports/exports, contract-level spot transactions, and pipeline operating metrics. It also creates advance-notice and post-event reporting for planned and unplanned refinery maintenance and a confidentiality carve-out for maintenance notifications.
Who It Affects
The bill targets refiners, major marketers, major oil producers, transporters, storers, pipeline and port operators, importers of refined products via vessel, nonrefining commercial traders, and operators of refineries that serve 500+ branded California outlets. It also requires ownership disclosures of any person or entity holding 10% or more of reporting firms.
Why It Matters
Regulators and market monitors will gain contract-level visibility into spot trades and operational detail on pipelines and refinery turnarounds — tools useful for preventing shortages and investigating market manipulation. At the same time, the volume and granularity of data create confidentiality, cybersecurity, and administrative burdens that industry and the commission must resolve.
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What This Bill Actually Does
SB 767 builds a dense reporting architecture across the petroleum supply chain. It directs each refiner and major marketer to submit monthly reports within 30 days that break down feedstock inputs, origin of receipts, imports and exports (including destinations and receiving entities), refinery outputs and stocks, finished product supply and distribution (including unbranded gasoline), and current inventories.
Major oil transporters, storers, producers, pipeline and port operators must likewise file periodic capacity, inventory, and throughput data, and all large suppliers must disclose owners with 10%+ stakes.
The bill criminally expands the granularity and cadence of market data. Nonrefiners that commercially trade inventory without contractual supply obligations must file weekly inventories by position holder and provide copies of related contracts.
Refiners and nonrefiners that complete spot market transactions must submit daily, contract-level reports with detailed fields — from contract identifiers and pricing formulas to nonanonymized executing trader and broker identities, volumes, delivery locations, pricing methods (including EFP details), and invoice quantities.SB 767 also tightens operational reporting around refinery maintenance. Refiners must notify the commission at least 120 days before planned turnarounds with unit-level capacity and inventory drawdown estimates; for unplanned outages longer than 24 hours they must submit an initial report within 48 hours and a final report within 48 hours of repair completion detailing lost output, compensatory production, and inventory impacts.
The bill exempts these maintenance notifications from public disclosure under the California Public Records Act but allows sharing with other state agencies that agree to maintain confidentiality.On the transport side, the bill forces importers to provide at least 96 hours’ pre-arrival notices for marine deliveries that include vessel and cargo details, volumes by fuel type, cargo landed cost, presold status and buyer identity, and voyage movements. It creates a new schedule for pipeline data: the commission must identify “reportable pipelines” by December 31, 2026, and beginning March 30, 2027 pipeline operators must submit monthly data on daily delivered volumes, hours of operation, minimum and maximum safe operating volumes, nameplate and available capacity.
The commission retains authority to modify reporting cadence, aggregate data to protect confidentiality in public releases, and accept equivalent filings made to other agencies when they contain the required information.
The Five Things You Need to Know
Refiners and major marketers must file monthly reports within 30 days listing feedstock inputs, origins of receipts, imports/exports (with destinations and receiving entities), refinery outputs, stocks, and finished product distribution, including unbranded gasoline.
Entities that execute spot market transactions must submit daily, contract-level data including nonanonymized executing trader and broker names, contract IDs, pricing method and formula, volumes and invoiced volumes, delivery locations, title transfer dates, and EFP futures contract details where applicable.
Importers via marine vessel must file at least 96 hours before arrival with vessel ID, loading locations, per-fuel-type volumes, cargo landed cost (all purchase/load/transport/delivery fees), presold status and buyer identity, and planned discharge location.
Refiners must notify planned turnarounds at least 120 days ahead with unit-level capacity and expected output reductions; for unplanned outages over 24 hours they must provide initial and final outage reports within 48 hours of the outage and completion, respectively.
The commission must designate reportable pipelines by December 31, 2026; beginning March 30, 2027, operators of those pipelines must report monthly minimum and maximum safe operating volumes, daily delivered volumes, hours of operation, nameplate and available capacity.
Section-by-Section Breakdown
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Monthly refiner and major marketer reporting
This section requires refiners and major marketers to deliver detailed monthly submissions covering feedstocks, origin of receipts, imports/exports (with counterparties and destinations), refinery outputs and stocks, and finished-product distribution including unbranded sales. Practically, affected firms must build or adapt data systems to combine production, procurement, sales, and inventory records into a single monthly package the commission prescribes.
Annual capacity and ownership disclosures for transporters, storers, and producers
Operators of major transportation systems, storage facilities, and producers must report capacities, amounts transported or stored, and methods of transportation; they must also disclose all persons or entities owning 10% or more. That ownership disclosure creates an additional compliance step for corporate reporting and raises potential review by regulators and investigators seeking to map market concentration.
Weekly inventory reports for nonrefiners and daily spot-transaction reporting
Proprietary storage companies and commercial traders without contractual supply obligations must supply weekly inventory by position holder and copies of contracts. Separately, any refiner or nonrefiner completing spot transactions must file a highly detailed daily record for each trade, including nonanonymized trader and broker identities and contractual pricing formulas. Those provisions convert previously private spot trades into regulated data streams, affecting trading desk anonymity, trade reporting systems, and data retention practices.
96-hour pre-arrival reporting for marine importers
All importers delivering refined products or renewable fuels by vessel must report at least 96 hours before arrival with vessel and cargo details, per-fuel volumes, cargo landed cost (comprehensive of purchase, loading, transport, and fees), presale status and buyer identity, and planned discharge locations. The advance notice gives the commission visibility to anticipate supply inflows and price effects but requires importers to integrate voyage logistics and commercial data into regulatory filings.
Turnaround and outage reporting plus confidentiality carve-out
Refiners must notify the commission at least 120 days prior to planned turnarounds with unit-level descriptions, expected output declines, and inventory drawdowns; for unplanned shutdowns over 24 hours they must file initial (within 48 hours) and final (within 48 hours of repair) reports. The bill declares these notifications confidential under the California Public Records Act and permits the commission to share them only with state agencies that agree to maintain confidentiality, while exempting commission guidance implementing these duties from the Administrative Procedure Act.
12‑month notice for refinery closure, reconfiguration, or sale
Refinery operators must report at least 12 months in advance if they intend to close, reconfigure, or sell a refinery in a way that may result in closure or reconfiguration. The commission must notify the Legislature in a manner that preserves confidentiality. That long notice window is designed to allow policy and contingency planning but could influence transactional timelines and commercial negotiations.
Reportable-pipeline definition and monthly pipeline operating metrics
The commission must identify pipelines that qualify as 'reportable' by December 31, 2026; those operators must begin monthly reporting on March 30, 2027, providing minimum and maximum safe 24‑hour operating volumes, daily delivered volumes, hours of operation, nameplate capacity, and maximum available capacity. The commission also must define what a 'significant reduction' in crude supply means for excluding pipelines. Those delegated definitions allocate substantial discretion to the commission and create practical implementation deadlines for pipeline operators.
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Who Benefits
- The commission and state market monitors — gain fine-grained, timelier visibility into supply flows, contract prices, and infrastructure capacities to detect shortages and suspect market behavior.
- Emergency planners and fuel security units (state and local) — can use advance maintenance and import arrival data to anticipate regional supply gaps and coordinate responses.
- Wholesale distributors and large retailers — receive clearer signals about forthcoming refinery turnarounds, imports, and pipeline capacity that can inform procurement and hedging strategies.
- Antitrust and law-enforcement units — benefit from transaction-level trade data and ownership disclosures that make investigations of price manipulation, collusion, or concentration easier.
Who Bears the Cost
- Refiners and major marketers — must overhaul reporting systems, aggregate unit-level production and inventory metrics, and maintain confidentiality protocols for sensitive notifications, imposing IT and compliance costs.
- Pipeline and port operators — face new monthly reporting on operating windows, capacities, and throughput that may require additional metering and recordkeeping investments.
- Spot traders, brokers, and proprietary trading desks — lose transaction anonymity and must incorporate daily regulatory reporting into trading workflows, increasing operational burden and potential commercial exposure.
- The commission and receiving state agencies — inherit substantial data intake, storage, analysis, and cybersecurity responsibilities, with attendant staffing and budget implications.
Key Issues
The Core Tension
The bill confronts a core dilemma: improve public safety and market oversight by collecting highly detailed, near–real-time supply and trade data versus protecting commercially sensitive information and critical infrastructure from disclosure, misuse, or excessive regulatory burden — a trade-off that puts data security, competitive harm, and operational feasibility in direct conflict with transparency and contingency planning goals.
SB 767 forces a delicate balancing act between transparency and commercial confidentiality. The bill’s scope and granularity — daily, weekly, monthly, and annual reports that include contract formulas, trader identities, and infrastructure capacities — create risks that competitively sensitive information could be exposed, aggregated improperly, or targeted by bad actors if cybersecurity and strict access controls are not implemented.
Although the bill exempts maintenance notifications from public disclosure, many other required fields (spot trades, landed costs, ownership data, pipeline capacities) are intrinsically sensitive; the commission’s ability to aggregate for public reports mitigates some risk, but the line between useful public data and harmful disclosure is operationally hard to draw.
Implementation uncertainty is a second major tension. The commission receives broad discretion to prescribe form and extent of reporting, define 'significant reduction' for pipeline exclusion, and identify which pipelines are reportable.
That discretion helps tailor requirements to technical realities but also creates run-up uncertainty for companies trying to budget compliance programs. The Administrative Procedure Act exemption for guidance on implementing maintenance notifications speeds execution but reduces formal public notice and stakeholder input.
Finally, the bill does not set out a clear enforcement or penalty regime for late, incomplete, or inaccurate filings, leaving open questions about compliance incentives and data quality assurance.
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