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Big Spring, TX

#232 of 422 U.S. rack markets by terminals

OPIS rack city 612 Gasoline & diesel Biodiesel
terminals
1
pipeline systems delivering
0
refineries confirmed
1
more per research or by route
0
people in the trade area
70,670
gal/day gasoline · estimated demand
230,216
gal/day diesel · estimated demand
137,033

Terminals in this market

The racks that post prices in this market. Pipelines = systems with a tariff delivery point at the terminal.
Terminal TCN Location Delivered by
Alon USA - Big Spring Refinery & Terminal T-75-TX-2656 Big Spring, TX no pipeline tariff on file

Pipelines delivering to this market

No pipeline tariff delivers to a terminal in this market on file: it is supplied by truck, rail or water, or the tariff has not been read yet.

Refineries that can supply this market

Running refineries that can reach a terminal here by published route, including across connecting carriers, confirmed links first. 1 are confirmed or named in a tariff; 0 are per research; 0 are inferred because the refinery shares a city with a tariff origin. Capacity, contracts and who actually ships are not known from tariffs.
Refinery Location Via Link
Big Spring Refinery (Alon USA / Delek) Big Spring, TX named in a tariff

Trade area

people in the trade area · 2025 estimate
70,670
rank of 422 rack markets by people
#371
gallons of gasoline a day · estimate, 2025
230,216
gallons of diesel a day · estimate, 2025
137,033
counties wholly in this market
3
counties shared with other markets
13
An estimate of who lifts here. Each county goes to its nearest rack market with terminals; a market within 1.5 times that distance (or 25 miles more) shares it, up to 4 markets, weighted toward the closer one and the one with more terminals. Distances are straight-line from the county’s centre. Shares of a county always add to 100%, so the people counted across all markets add back to the U.S. total.
County State Share here People counted here Gasoline gal/day Diesel gal/day County population Miles
Howard County TX 100% 30,504 79,441 52,086 30,504 3
Scurry County TX 62% 9,991 22,471 12,610 16,162 44
Mitchell County TX 100% 8,947 36,593 23,602 8,947 29
Val Verde County TX 16% 7,649 6,548 3,639 47,835 166
Dawson County TX 31% 3,647 9,616 4,620 11,776 45
Nolan County TX 19% 2,623 11,367 6,887 14,117 58
Martin County TX 39% 2,062 22,642 14,366 5,284 32
Garza County TX 25% 1,141 6,204 3,350 4,510 64
Coke County TX 25% 857 2,628 1,078 3,412 53
Sterling County TX 62% 843 8,262 3,838 1,349 36
Glasscock County TX 57% 641 11,450 5,212 1,128 28
Reagan County TX 19% 597 3,460 1,508 3,166 62
Borden County TX 100% 567 3,418 1,740 567 33
Crockett County TX 15% 412 4,970 1,771 2,769 107
Kent County TX 24% 161 642 301 674 74
King County TX 13% 25 501 424 192 115

Fuel demand is an estimate: each state’s taxed gallons for the year (FHWA) are split among its counties by where the driving happens (EPA county vehicle miles, weighted by how much fuel each vehicle type burns), then shared to markets as above. Every state adds back to its FHWA total. Gasoline includes the ethanol blended into it; diesel is FHWA’s special fuels. Expect diesel to be least reliable along long-haul corridors, where trucks buy fuel in one county and burn it in another. Population: U.S. Census Bureau county estimates.

How good is it? Checked in October 2026 against the county retail sales Iowa and California publish: for gasoline, about 3–5% of gallons landed in the wrong rack market and a typical market was within 5–6%. For diesel, 14–21% landed in the wrong market and a typical market was 30–45% off, with truck-stop corridors such as Bakersfield and Stockton under-counted. Treat gasoline as a working estimate and diesel as a rough guide.

Cost to serve this market by pipeline

No published pipeline rate into a terminal here is on file yet. Markets supplied by truck, rail or water have no tariff to read.

Supply resilience

pipeline supply
No pipeline
pipeline systems delivering
0
terminals on two or more pipelines
0
terminals with no pipeline tariff
1

No pipeline tariff delivers here on file: the market depends on truck, rail or water, or its tariff has not been read.

Counts pipeline systems with a tariff delivery point here, not capacity, storage or contracts. A system with two lines into the market still counts once, and a terminal with one pipeline may also receive by truck, rail or water. For a refinery or pipeline outage across every market it touches, open that facility’s page.

Delivered ethanol cost

¢/gal over Chicago ethanol · lowest in the market
+17.17
¢/gal over Chicago ethanol · highest
+17.17

An estimate for each terminal: the cheapest of published rail rates and trucking from the nearest plants, plus basis, transload, terminaling and carrying cost. Each terminal page shows the build-up line by line.

Terminal ¢/gal over Chicago By From Miles
Alon USA - Big Spring Refinery & Terminal +17.17 rail Arkalon Ethanol LLC (Liberal, KS) 461

Nearby rack markets

Rack markets within 75 miles (straight line): where a buyer here could also lift.

Rack market Miles Terminals Pipelines
Midland/Odessa, TX 51 2 1

Rates are pipeline line-haul transcribed from published FERC tariffs; every figure cites its tariff and item. Cost to serve (netback) adds origin spot price and destination fees. "Confirmed" links match a tariff delivery point to the facility; "same city" means the point is in the facility's city — plausible, not proof; "per research" means the facility's research profile names the pipeline as an outlet.