Rack market

Sidney, NE

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

OPIS rack code 526 Gasoline & diesel Ethanol

terminals: 1
pipeline systems delivering: 2
refineries in market: 0
refineries supplying market: 0
people in the trade area: 109,696
gal/day gasoline · estimated demand: 208,484
gal/day diesel · estimated demand: 171,503

Terminals in this market

Terminal	TCN	Location	Delivered by
Holly Energy Partners - Operating L.P.	T-47-NE-3609	Sidney, NE	Chase / Overland / Frontier, HF Sinclair / Holly Energy

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
Chase / Overland / Frontier	1	1	0	0
HF Sinclair / Holly Energy	1	1	0	0

Refineries that can supply this market

No refinery has a published pipeline route here on file.

Trade area

people in the trade area · 2025 estimate: 109,696
rank of 422 rack markets by people: #356
gallons of gasoline a day · estimate, 2025: 208,484
gallons of diesel a day · estimate, 2025: 171,503
counties wholly in this market: 8
counties shared with other markets: 22

County	State	Share here	People counted here	Gasoline gal/day	Diesel gal/day	County population	Miles
Logan County	CO	100%	20,654	34,432	18,965	20,654	30
Scotts Bluff County	NE	51%	18,305	19,086	7,605	35,586	63
Box Butte County	NE	100%	10,494	11,730	5,872	10,494	74
Cheyenne County	NE	100%	9,528	22,191	28,088	9,528	6
Yuma County	CO	63%	6,282	8,471	4,370	9,896	84
Morgan County	CO	16%	4,700	7,065	3,872	30,306	77
Phillips County	CO	100%	4,420	5,100	2,407	4,420	49
Morrill County	NE	100%	4,404	12,822	8,885	4,404	40
Goshen County	WY	27%	3,449	5,154	2,930	12,640	98
Keith County	NE	34%	2,791	12,003	18,675	8,100	67
Dawes County	NE	32%	2,504	3,483	1,953	7,858	108
Sheridan County	NE	48%	2,295	3,725	2,544	4,809	98
Sedgwick County	CO	100%	2,247	10,699	7,608	2,247	36
Cherry County	NE	39%	2,184	4,306	2,968	5,561	138
Kimball County	NE	60%	2,023	8,966	14,122	3,391	40
Todd County	SD	23%	2,018	2,973	1,379	8,863	182
Deuel County	NE	100%	1,862	13,086	22,656	1,862	31
Garden County	NE	100%	1,804	3,774	2,532	1,804	47
Chase County	NE	36%	1,332	1,836	1,181	3,718	78
Bennett County	SD	31%	1,018	1,423	810	3,307	155
Washington County	CO	21%	980	3,211	2,011	4,732	83
Perkins County	NE	30%	849	1,454	1,034	2,849	71
Cheyenne County	KS	26%	676	764	557	2,604	113
Jackson County	SD	25%	662	4,914	4,492	2,666	187
Dundy County	NE	38%	596	1,318	897	1,568	94
Mellette County	SD	22%	461	720	433	2,137	201
Banner County	NE	54%	372	1,875	1,272	686	49
Sioux County	NE	26%	311	753	502	1,188	100
Grant County	NE	53%	297	762	602	561	78
Arthur County	NE	45%	178	391	283	396	71

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

What it costs to move a gallon here from a supply origin at filed tariff rates: line-haul, the cost of financing the product on the way and in the tank, pipeline loss, and terminaling. It is a cost at filed rates, not a market price: add it to the origin spot price for a delivered cost. The figure shown is the lowest route that starts where product enters the pipeline system; where a second pipeline is needed to reach here, both are costed. Lines marked "estimate" are placeholders until the pipeline or terminal figure is on file; in the routes table, * marks a figure taken from the tariff.

Gasoline: product adder

¢/gal · product adder: 17.95
¢/gal · line-haul tariff · published: 16.17
¢/gal · carrying cost · calculated: 0.79
¢/gal · pipeline loss · estimate: 0.62
¢/gal · terminaling · published: 0.38
days financed: 15.6

Route used: from Billings, MT on Magellan Midstream, handed over at HollyFrontier Refinery, Cheyenne, Laramie County, WY to HF Sinclair / Holly Energy, to Sidney, Nebraska (FERC No. 201.4.0 item 100 + Frontier Pipeline LLC F.E.R.C. No. 2.9.0 item Rate table).

How this adder is worked, line by line

Line	¢/gal	Basis	Source or working
Line-haul tariff	16.169	published	Magellan Midstream FERC No. 201.4.0 item 100: Billings, MT (via P66 Seminoe Pipeline to Casper) → Cheyenne, WY, 570.98 ¢/bbl + HF Sinclair / Holly Energy Frontier Pipeline LLC F.E.R.C. No. 2.9.0 item Rate table: HollyFrontier Refinery, Cheyenne, Laramie County, WY → Sidney, Nebraska, 108.13 ¢/bbl
Carrying cost	0.789	calculated	$3.100000/gal × 5.9500% ÷ 365 × 15.618 days (8.118 in transit, 2.50 waiting on the cycle, 5.00 in terminal inventory); transit estimated over two pipelines: 427 miles on Magellan Midstream, 2.5 days waiting on its shipping cycle, then 112 miles on HF Sinclair / Holly Energy
Pipeline loss	0.620	estimate	Magellan Midstream FERC No. 184.39.1 item 12, tender deduction on the Magellan portion of FERC No. 201.4.0: 0.10% of volume at $3.1000/gal = 13.02 ¢/bbl; flat estimate $0.0031/gal, applied 1 time
Terminaling	0.375	published	HF Sinclair / Holly Energy Frontier Pipeline LLC F.E.R.C. No. 2.9.0 item 85: 15.76 ¢/bbl carrier terminal charge
Product adder	17.954		Sum of the lines above, over the origin spot price

Diesel: product adder

¢/gal · product adder: 18.72
¢/gal · line-haul tariff · published: 16.17
¢/gal · carrying cost · calculated: 1.22
¢/gal · pipeline loss · estimate: 0.96
¢/gal · terminaling · published: 0.38
days financed: 15.6

How this adder is worked, line by line

Line	¢/gal	Basis	Source or working
Line-haul tariff	16.169	published	Magellan Midstream FERC No. 201.4.0 item 100: Billings, MT (via P66 Seminoe Pipeline to Casper) → Cheyenne, WY, 570.98 ¢/bbl + HF Sinclair / Holly Energy Frontier Pipeline LLC F.E.R.C. No. 2.9.0 item Rate table: HollyFrontier Refinery, Cheyenne, Laramie County, WY → Sidney, Nebraska, 108.13 ¢/bbl
Carrying cost	1.217	calculated	$4.780000/gal × 5.9500% ÷ 365 × 15.618 days (8.118 in transit, 2.50 waiting on the cycle, 5.00 in terminal inventory); transit estimated over two pipelines: 427 miles on Magellan Midstream, 2.5 days waiting on its shipping cycle, then 112 miles on HF Sinclair / Holly Energy
Pipeline loss	0.956	estimate	Magellan Midstream FERC No. 184.39.1 item 12, tender deduction on the Magellan portion of FERC No. 201.4.0: 0.10% of volume at $4.7800/gal = 20.08 ¢/bbl; flat estimate $0.0048/gal, applied 1 time
Terminaling	0.375	published	HF Sinclair / Holly Energy Frontier Pipeline LLC F.E.R.C. No. 2.9.0 item 85: 15.76 ¢/bbl carrier terminal charge
Product adder	18.717		Sum of the lines above, over the origin spot price

Inputs and assumptions behind these figures

Product value (for carrying cost and loss only): the prior day's spot price. Gasoline: OilPriceAPI GASOLINE_RBOB_USD, 2026-10-28. Diesel: OilPriceAPI HEATING_OIL_USD, 2026-10-28. These are the New York Harbor futures benchmarks, not a Gulf Coast price.
Interest rate: SOFR 3.95% (2026-10-27) + 2.0 points.
Transit (estimate): straight-line miles between the tariff origin and delivery point × 1.15, at 4.0 mph unless the pipeline has its own figure.
Days financed (estimate): transit, plus half a 5-day shipping cycle waiting to lift (once for each pipeline on a two-pipeline route), plus 5 days of stock at the terminal.
Pipeline loss: the charge or volume deduction the tariff states, where it states one (marked *; a deduction is costed at the product value above). Otherwise an estimate of 0.10% of product value per pipeline, two for a joint rate; that includes pipelines that share out actual losses without publishing a figure, and tariffs that state no loss term.
Terminaling: the carrier's terminal charge where its tariff states one (marked *), otherwise a flat 1.5¢/gal estimate.
Which route sets the figure: the lowest one that starts at a supply origin. On Colonial that is Houston. A rate that starts part-way along a pipeline, or at a secondary origin, stays in the table but does not set the figure. Where a rate starts at a point another carrier delivers to, the first carrier's lowest rate into that point is added, with its loss and time in the pipe; terminaling is charged once. The same is done where one pipeline files the movement as two rates. Which origins are treated this way is our own review of each system, not a statement in a tariff.
Rates used: each pipeline's ordinary filed rate. Committed, volume-tier, discount and bid rates are left out, as are conditional fees (shown on each pipeline page), additives, taxes and the value of line space.
Assumption set in force from 2026-10-01; review by 2027-01-01.

Published line-haul rates, all products and rate types

¢/gal · cheapest gasoline · from HollyFrontier Refinery, Cheyenne, Laramie County, WY on HF Sinclair / Holly Energy: 2.58
¢/gal · cheapest diesel · from HollyFrontier Refinery, Cheyenne, Laramie County, WY on HF Sinclair / Holly Energy: 2.58
¢/gal · cheapest jet fuel · from HollyFrontier Refinery, Cheyenne, Laramie County, WY on HF Sinclair / Holly Energy: 2.58

Origin	Pipeline	Delivery point	Product	¢/bbl	¢/gal	Refineries at the origin	Tariff
HollyFrontier Refinery, Cheyenne, Laramie County, WY	HF Sinclair / Holly Energy	Sidney, Nebraska per research	gasoline, distillate, jet fuel	108.13	2.58		Frontier Pipeline LLC F.E.R.C. No. 2.9.0 item Rate table

Supply resilience

pipeline supply: Limited
pipeline systems delivering: 2
terminals on two or more pipelines: 1
terminals with no pipeline tariff: 0

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
Chase / Overland / Frontier	1	0
HF Sinclair / Holly Energy	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: -9.25
¢/gal over Chicago ethanol · highest: -9.25

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
Holly Energy Partners - Operating L.P.	-9.25	truck	Bridgeport Ethanol LLC (Bridgeport, NE)	42

Around the market

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Pump prices nearby

$4.269 Regular gasoline · PADD 2 · +3.0% on the week · +52.2% on the year

$6.480 Diesel · PADD 2 · +2.0% on the week · +81.8% on the year

EIA weekly retail survey, week of 2026-10-26: the closest area EIA reports, not this market alone.

Fuel taxes · Nebraska

51.1 ¢/gal Gasoline · state 32.7¢ + federal 18.4¢ (excise 31.8¢, other state taxes and fees 0.9¢)

56.5 ¢/gal Diesel · state 32.1¢ + federal 24.4¢ (excise 31.8¢, other state taxes and fees 0.3¢)

Taxed at: distributor / wholesaler
Figured on gross gallons
Rate is subject to change semiannually; the 31.8 cents rate is stated for Jul 1, 2025 – Dec 31, 2025 and no later rate is given.

Rates: EIA, in effect July 1, 2026, without county or city taxes. Rules: Federation of Tax Administrators, September 2025. Not tax advice: check the state agency before relying on a rate.

Terminal operators

1 operator; HF Sinclair runs 100% of the terminals.

HF Sinclair 1 terminal · 100%

Concentration index 10,000 (10,000 = one operator). By terminal count as named on the IRS list, not volume; affiliates under other names may be counted apart.

In the state

10 rack markets in NE.

Source

Rack markets are our own grouping of terminals, with the matching OPIS rack code shown for reference. Terminals from the IRS Terminal Control Number list; pipeline reach from published FERC and state tariffs; refinery links from tariffs and sourced research.

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.