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Des Moines, IA

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

OPIS rack city 320 Gasoline & diesel Aviation gasoline Biodiesel Ethanol
terminals
3
pipeline systems delivering
2
refineries confirmed
0
more per research or by route
8
people in the trade area
951,638
gal/day gasoline · estimated demand
1,230,961
gal/day diesel · estimated demand
536,317

Terminals in this market

The racks that post prices in this market. Pipelines = systems with a tariff delivery point at the terminal.
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Terminal TCN Location Delivered by
Buckeye Terminals, LLC - Des Moines Terminal T-42-IA-3456 Des Moines, IA Buckeye Pipeline, Magellan Midstream
Des Moines T-42-IA-3457 Des Moines, IA Magellan Midstream
Phillips 66 Pipe Line (Conocophillips) - Pleasant Hill T-42-IA-3470 Pleasant Hill, IA no pipeline tariff on file

Pipelines delivering to this market

Each system with a tariff delivery point at one of this market’s terminals, and how many running refineries can ship on it to here.

Pipeline system Terminals here Delivery points Refineries confirmed All reachable
Magellan Midstream 2 3 0 7
Buckeye Pipeline 1 1 0 0

Refineries that can supply this market

Running refineries that can reach a terminal here by published route, including across connecting carriers, confirmed links first. 0 are confirmed or named in a tariff; 4 are per research; 4 are inferred because the refinery shares a city with a tariff origin. Capacity, contracts and who actually ships are not known from tariffs.
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Refinery Location Via Link
CHS McPherson Refinery Mcpherson, KS Magellan Midstream per research
Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend Refinery Saint Paul, MN Magellan Midstream per research
Phillips 66 Ponca City Refinery Ponca City, OK Magellan Midstream, Phillips 66 Pipeline per research
Valero Ardmore Refinery Ardmore, OK Magellan Midstream per research
Borger Refinery (WRB Refining / Phillips 66) Borger, TX Phillips 66 Pipeline inferred (same city)
CVR Wynnewood Refinery Wynnewood, OK Magellan Midstream inferred (same city)
Cenovus Superior Refinery Superior, WI Magellan Midstream inferred (same city)
HF Sinclair El Dorado Refinery El Dorado, KS Magellan Midstream inferred (same city)

Trade area

people in the trade area · 2025 estimate
951,638
rank of 422 rack markets by people
#117
gallons of gasoline a day · estimate, 2025
1,230,961
gallons of diesel a day · estimate, 2025
536,317
counties wholly in this market
7
counties shared with other markets
19
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.
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County State Share here People counted here Gasoline gal/day Diesel gal/day County population Miles
Polk County IA 100% 516,546 614,425 189,808 516,546 7
Dallas County IA 100% 118,457 113,140 55,141 118,457 24
Story County IA 67% 67,531 83,401 43,560 101,291 32
Warren County IA 100% 57,331 82,199 42,172 57,331 17
Jasper County IA 100% 38,153 84,499 61,050 38,153 29
Marion County IA 73% 24,875 33,190 11,776 34,192 31
Marshall County IA 46% 18,290 23,442 7,977 39,890 45
Madison County IA 100% 17,270 18,332 9,128 17,270 28
Boone County IA 55% 14,702 22,064 8,208 26,799 36
Union County IA 100% 11,829 14,247 5,074 11,829 51
Clarke County IA 100% 9,574 24,601 22,382 9,574 39
Guthrie County IA 76% 8,241 10,362 4,354 10,782 47
Carroll County IA 31% 6,341 8,278 2,852 20,303 73
Lucas County IA 68% 5,999 8,257 3,676 8,847 40
Decatur County IA 71% 5,455 15,409 14,268 7,655 59
Adair County IA 69% 5,107 22,548 21,894 7,403 49
Poweshiek County IA 28% 5,077 13,790 11,251 18,368 56
Greene County IA 53% 4,559 7,294 3,220 8,658 52
Wayne County IA 53% 3,581 4,202 1,745 6,738 60
Cass County IA 24% 3,105 9,756 8,293 12,960 71
Harrison County MO 25% 2,100 6,613 3,918 8,281 88
Ringgold County IA 44% 2,022 2,951 1,384 4,642 67
Audubon County IA 29% 1,599 2,226 965 5,509 68
Taylor County IA 25% 1,484 1,575 697 5,835 82
Mercer County MO 38% 1,287 2,107 545 3,404 80
Adams County IA 31% 1,126 2,053 979 3,617 69

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.

Cost to serve this market by pipeline

¢/gal · cheapest gasoline · from Oklahoma Central on Magellan Midstream
7.59
¢/gal · cheapest diesel · from Oklahoma Central on Magellan Midstream
7.59
¢/gal · cheapest jet fuel · from Wynnewood, OK / Ardmore, OK on Magellan Midstream
10.28
Published line-haul rates into a terminal here, cheapest first (16 of 16 routes). Add the origin spot price for a delivered cost; compare that with the rack price for the netback. Not included: terminal throughput and rack fees, and the 10 conditional tariff fees listed on each pipeline page.
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Origin Pipeline Delivery point Product ¢/bbl ¢/gal Refineries at the origin Tariff
Oklahoma Central (Ponca City) Magellan Midstream Des Moines (Flint Hills), IA same city (inferred) gasoline, distillate 318.60 7.59 Phillips 66 Ponca City Refinery FERC No. 160.59.0 item 200
Kansas (Coffeyville/El Dorado/Kansas City Jct.) Magellan Midstream Des Moines (Flint Hills), IA same city (inferred) gasoline, distillate 318.60 7.59 HF Sinclair El Dorado Refinery FERC No. 160.59.0 item 201
Minneapolis (Pine Bend/St Paul Park/Roseville/Rosemount) Magellan Midstream Des Moines (Flint Hills), IA same city (inferred) gasoline, distillate 318.60 7.59 Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend Refinery FERC No. 160.59.0 item 205
McPherson, KS Magellan Midstream Des Moines (Flint Hills), IA same city (inferred) gasoline, distillate 340.72 8.11 CHS McPherson Refinery FERC No. 160.59.0 item 255
Oklahoma Central (Ponca City) Magellan Midstream Des Moines, IA gasoline, distillate 351.69 8.37 Phillips 66 Ponca City Refinery FERC No. 160.59.0 item 200
Kansas (Coffeyville/El Dorado/Kansas City Jct.) Magellan Midstream Des Moines, IA gasoline, distillate 351.69 8.37 HF Sinclair El Dorado Refinery FERC No. 160.59.0 item 201
Minneapolis (Pine Bend/St Paul Park/Roseville/Rosemount) Magellan Midstream Des Moines, IA gasoline, distillate 351.69 8.37 Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend Refinery FERC No. 160.59.0 item 205
Superior, WI Magellan Midstream Des Moines (Flint Hills), IA same city (inferred) gasoline, distillate 363.73 8.66 Cenovus Superior Refinery FERC No. 160.59.0 item 206
McPherson, KS Magellan Midstream Des Moines, IA gasoline, distillate 373.84 8.90 CHS McPherson Refinery FERC No. 160.59.0 item 255
Wichita - Kansas City Interconnect (Phillips 66 Carrier) Magellan Midstream Des Moines (Flint Hills), IA same city (inferred) gasoline, distillate 396.72 9.45 FERC No. 160.59.0 item 240
Superior, WI Magellan Midstream Des Moines, IA gasoline, distillate 396.86 9.45 Cenovus Superior Refinery FERC No. 160.59.0 item 206
Wynnewood, OK Magellan Midstream Des Moines (Flint Hills), IA same city (inferred) gasoline, distillate 401.90 9.57 CVR Wynnewood Refinery FERC No. 160.59.0 item 204
Wichita - Kansas City Interconnect (Phillips 66 Carrier) Magellan Midstream Des Moines, IA gasoline, distillate 429.80 10.23 FERC No. 160.59.0 item 240
Wynnewood, OK / Ardmore, OK (Valero Partners Wynnewood) Magellan Midstream Des Moines (Flint Hills), IA same city (inferred) gasoline, distillate, jet fuel 431.84 10.28 Valero Ardmore Refinery; CVR Wynnewood Refinery FERC No. 197.9.0 item 200
Wynnewood, OK Magellan Midstream Des Moines, IA gasoline, distillate 434.99 10.36 CVR Wynnewood Refinery FERC No. 160.59.0 item 204
Wynnewood, OK / Ardmore, OK (Valero Partners Wynnewood) Magellan Midstream Des Moines, IA gasoline, distillate, jet fuel 464.93 11.07 Valero Ardmore Refinery; CVR Wynnewood Refinery FERC No. 197.9.0 item 200

Supply resilience

pipeline supply
Limited
pipeline systems delivering
2
terminals on two or more pipelines
1
terminals with no pipeline tariff
1

Two pipeline systems deliver here: one can cover for the other where a terminal is on both.

If a pipeline system goes down

Pipeline system Terminals it reaches here With no other pipeline Which
Magellan Midstream 2 1 Des Moines
Buckeye Pipeline 1 0

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
-9.48
¢/gal over Chicago ethanol · highest
-9.44

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
Buckeye Terminals, LLC - Des Moines Terminal -9.48 truck Lincolnway Energy LLC (Nevada, IA) 37
Phillips 66 Pipe Line (Conocophillips) - Pleasant Hill -9.47 truck Lincolnway Energy LLC (Nevada, IA) 38
Des Moines -9.44 truck Lincolnway Energy LLC (Nevada, IA) 38

Nearby rack markets

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

Rack market Miles Terminals Pipelines
Ft. Dodge, IA 63 1 —
Ottumwa, IA 70 1 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.