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Salina, KS

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

OPIS rack city 523 Gasoline & diesel Aviation gasoline Biodiesel Ethanol
terminals
1
pipeline systems delivering
1
refineries confirmed
0
more per research or by route
3
people in the trade area
114,985
gal/day gasoline · estimated demand
158,151
gal/day diesel · estimated demand
82,722

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
Nustar Pipeline Operating Partnership, L.p. - Salina Terminal T-48-KS-3663 Salina, KS NuStar Pipeline

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
NuStar Pipeline 1 1 0 2

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; 0 are per research; 3 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
Borger Refinery (WRB Refining / Phillips 66) Borger, TX Phillips 66 Pipeline inferred (same city)
CHS McPherson Refinery Mcpherson, KS NuStar Pipeline inferred (same city)
Phillips 66 Ponca City Refinery Ponca City, OK NuStar Pipeline inferred (same city)

Trade area

people in the trade area · 2025 estimate
114,985
rank of 422 rack markets by people
#355
gallons of gasoline a day · estimate, 2025
158,151
gallons of diesel a day · estimate, 2025
82,722
counties wholly in this market
1
counties shared with other markets
16
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
Saline County KS 100% 53,377 73,079 35,244 53,377 3
Riley County KS 30% 21,787 17,770 5,519 72,598 58
Geary County KS 31% 11,290 13,847 6,368 36,338 48
Dickinson County KS 55% 10,342 18,056 10,670 18,637 26
Ottawa County KS 37% 2,116 4,461 3,439 5,744 21
Clay County KS 25% 1,965 1,880 1,064 7,990 43
McPherson County KS 6% 1,882 3,079 1,737 30,064 31
Russell County KS 28% 1,846 6,954 5,093 6,581 61
Ellsworth County KS 27% 1,691 5,720 4,364 6,257 32
Mitchell County KS 29% 1,610 2,100 1,280 5,590 49
Marion County KS 14% 1,600 2,270 1,566 11,634 44
Morris County KS 25% 1,346 1,681 1,078 5,348 54
Lincoln County KS 36% 1,038 2,822 2,302 2,861 34
Rooks County KS 21% 984 1,330 1,022 4,646 97
Osborne County KS 23% 768 1,062 656 3,285 70
Rice County KS 8% 702 1,043 649 9,266 46
Smith County KS 18% 645 996 670 3,566 89

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 McPherson, KS on NuStar Pipeline
2.68
¢/gal · cheapest diesel · from McPherson, KS on NuStar Pipeline
2.68
Published line-haul rates into a terminal here, cheapest first (3 of 3 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 19 conditional tariff fees listed on each pipeline page.
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Origin Pipeline Delivery point Product ¢/bbl ¢/gal Refineries at the origin Tariff
McPherson, KS NuStar Pipeline Salina, KS gasoline, distillate 112.72 2.68 CHS McPherson Refinery K.C.C. No. 31 item 100
Ponca City, OK NuStar Pipeline Salina, KS gasoline, distillate 128.10 3.05 Phillips 66 Ponca City Refinery FERC No. 17.47.0 item 130
Arkansas City, KS / Wichita, KS / El Dorado, KS / Conway, KS NuStar Pipeline Salina, KS gasoline, distillate 130.44 3.11 FERC No. 17.47.0 item 100

Supply resilience

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

One pipeline system delivers here: NuStar Pipeline. An outage on it leaves the market to truck, rail or water.

If a pipeline system goes down

Pipeline system Terminals it reaches here With no other pipeline Which
NuStar Pipeline 1 1 Nustar Pipeline Operating Partnership, L.p. - Salina Terminal

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
-8.89
¢/gal over Chicago ethanol · highest
-8.89

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
Nustar Pipeline Operating Partnership, L.p. - Salina Terminal -8.89 truck Purefield Ingredients LLC (Russell, KS) 49

Nearby rack markets

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

Rack market Miles Terminals Pipelines
Mcpherson, KS 34 2 —
Concordia, KS 36 1 1
Hutchinson, KS 58 2 —
Great Bend, KS 65 1 1
El Dorado, KS 71 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.