Flint Hills Texas Pipeline System

How product moves through this line

Starts at

Corpus Christi refineries (East and West)

Delivers along the way to

Corpus Christi; Delmita; San Antonio; Mustang Ridge (Buda); Austin; Bastrop (Cedar Creek); Taylor; Waco; Euless (DFW)

Notes

fhr.com: "The Texas Pipeline System carries products from the Corpus Christi refineries to the San Antonio, Austin, Bastrop, Waco and Dallas/Ft. Worth markets." Built 1988-May 1990 (Koch history, SEC exhibit). Proprietary, no common-carrier tariff; segment diameters and capacity not published. July 2024 RRC R-1: ~289 kb/d of gasoline/diesel/jet delivered to "Flint Hills Resources, LC T1 04-015".

Fed by (2)

Refineries, gathering systems and pipelines that put product into this line.

Hands off to (2)

Pipelines this line delivers into, at a named junction or station.

Delivers to (8)

Terminals and other facilities this line supplies directly: local storage and rack distribution.

If this line goes down

terminals affected

9

no other supply on file

4

1–2 alternatives

5

3+ alternatives

0

Facilities left with no other input

• Flint Hills / KPL South Texas Waco connector
• Flint Hills / KPL South Texas San Antonio line

Most exposed terminals

Follows the supply graph: the terminals this line and anything it leaves without input deliver to, and what still reaches each, including other lines of the same carrier at a shared delivery point. Capacity and contracts are not modelled. Agents can run the same check with the MCP tool assess_outage_impact.

Rates

No published rate runs between the tariff points on this line. The carrier files the rates; see its page.

Tariff points

Products & grades

Tariffs

Fees & terms

Status & ownership

Status

In 2023 FHR announced a new pipeline from its Bastrop terminal (about 20 miles, 10-inch, along the Hwy 71 corridor, for jet fuel to Austin-Bergstrom). Its in-service status was not verified. No other conversions were found.

Ownership

Koch subsidiary. FHR operates about 4,000 miles of pipeline: the Texas Pipeline System (products from Corpus Christi); in the north, the Minnesota Pipe Line (crude), Wood River Pipeline (Hartford IL to St. Paul MN products), Wisconsin Pipeline and the MSP Airport jet line. Only the Texas system is relevant to the graph link.

Intrastate

The FHR Texas Pipeline System (Corpus Christi to San Antonio, Austin, Bastrop, Waco and DFW) is intrastate. No FHR T-4 tariff text could be read: the one RRC document found is scanned. The system may be operated as proprietary (shipper = FHR), which would mean no public rate tariff exists.

PHMSA / NPMS

OPID 22855 · FLINT HILLS RESOURCES, LC · Non-HVL product (refined products) · intrastate (checked 2025-12-31, PHMSA HL annual report 2025 (OPID 22855; operator of record))

Operator mileage

FLINT HILLS RESOURCES, LC reports 3,863 onshore miles (2025 annual report): Texas 1,737, Minnesota 1,137, Wisconsin 517, Missouri 250, Iowa 218, Illinois 5
By pipe size (in): ≤4″ 167, 6″ 406, 8″ 281, 10″ 294, 12″ 230, 14″ 112, 16″ 1,099, 18″ 414, 20″ 311, 24″ 498
Operator-wide figures from PHMSA hazardous-liquid annual reports; one OPID can cover several systems.

Research

LOW confidence