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National campaign · Reference 03 · The national fuel stream

Fuel Stream Workflow Continuity

One fuel-quality continuity workflow. Available to anyone handling fuel for testing, anywhere along the fuel stream.

From the source and loading rack to the receiving tank, field technician and laboratory: every properly identified testing event can create useful evidence that carries forward to the next event.

Explore the ten-step workflowFind your entry point

Fuel changes hands. Evidence should not disappear.

Fuel passes among producers, terminals, marketers, distributors, transporters, receiving facilities, field service providers, and laboratories. Each participant has a distinct job. FOI's national campaign connects them through a consistent method for identifying, testing, reviewing, verifying and preserving fuel-condition evidence.

SourceLoadTransportReceiptStorage / AssetSampleCustodyLaboratoryReviewCorrectionVerificationPreserved RecordNext Event
The fuel stream is the map of handoffs; the ten-step FOI workflow governs an identified fuel-quality testing event. A documented test does not prove every earlier handoff was verified. Where upstream evidence is available, it can be associated with the event while preserving provenance and responsibility.

Every fuel-handling community has a doorway

Refineries, terminals & marketers

Preserve available product, loading and source records when linked to a specific testing event.

Fuel distributors & transporters

Connect delivery identification and documented screening with receiving-party testing and follow-up.

Bulk buyers & receiving facilities

Establish incoming-fuel baselines and identify tanks, products, dates and sampling points.

Field service providers

Use consistent asset identification, field observations, sampling, custody and corrective-action handoffs.

Laboratories & quality teams

Associate analytical results with the right sample and carry the evidence into review and subsequent testing.

Fuel consumers & critical facilities

Track condition over time across generators, fleets, utilities, data centers, hospitals and other fuel-dependent operations.

One governed ten-step workflow

  1. 01Identify
  2. 02Sample
  3. 03Custody
  4. 04Laboratory Performance
  5. 05Review
  6. 06Correct
  7. 07Verify
  8. 08Preserve
  9. 09Trend
  10. 10Next Event

A properly identified sample makes the handoff visible. A test establishes condition at a point. Continuity preserves what happened between the points.

FOI uses its laboratory and continuity records to preserve evidence of the fuel-condition event. The owner, supplier, transporter, engineer and service provider retain their existing authority. Where no correction is needed, the review and disposition are documented; verification follows applicable findings and actions rather than assuming work occurred.

Learn it. Use it. Preserve the record.

Understand the national blueprint

See how the ten steps operate and how FOI's LIMS preserves testing events and historical continuity.

View the workflow blueprint

Start with sampling & laboratory testing

Access existing FOI services for emergency-power and other fuel-quality testing inquiries.

View an established testing doorway

For other applications, contact FOI to confirm analytical scope and sampling requirements.

Learn workflow adoption

Free national workflow education teaches professionals how to apply identification, custody, evidence and continuity. Completion acknowledgement is separate from any professional credit.

Contact FOI for workflow course availability and access details.

Ask about workflow education

Field screening and fuel-delivery workflows: appropriate field screening can support sampling decisions, but it does not replace qualifying laboratory methods. Claims about branded-fuel or refinery-source identity require separately validated testing.

Contact FOI about your fuel-testing application

National participation, without replacing existing reliability

This workflow is available for professional evaluation and use by organizations that handle fuel for testing. It does not transfer custody of commercial operations, ownership of assets, or control of the host platform to FOI. FOI governs only its documented fuel-quality testing and continuity event.

Life-safety emergency power is one application of this national fuel-quality approach—not a restriction on who may participate.

Connect your next fuel-quality event.

Talk with FOI about sampling, laboratory testing and the continuity records your team needs.

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Testing and documentation should be selected for the application and applicable specification. This independent FOI program is not an endorsement by a standards organization or fuel supplier.