Kinder Morgan SFPP Watson gathering (LA Basin)

How product moves through this line

Starts at

Marathon Carson; Marathon Wilmington; PBF Torrance (via Sepulveda Jct); Chevron El Segundo; Phillips 66 Wilmington; Valero Wilmington; Shell Carson terminal; KM Carson terminal (Berth 118); Marathon East Hynes

Delivers along the way to

Watson Station breakout (West, San Diego and CALNEV origins); East Hynes (injection point)

Notes

Gathering system at Watson offers third-party terminal connectivity; Sepulveda PL is a gathering line to Watson (additional tariffs apply); KM Carson terminal connects via Sepulveda Jct.

Fed by (5)

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.

Stations along this line

A station is where the line breaks out: it delivers locally, hands product to other carriers and carries on. It splits the line into legs, so a cut reads differently on each side of it.

Watson Station Carson, CA breakout

The Los Angeles Basin origin: the Watson gathering lines bring product in from the refineries and third-party terminals, it is held in breakout tankage, and the West and San Diego lines start here.

Arrives from

the Los Angeles Basin refineries and terminals (Watson gathering lines) · Kinder Morgan SFPP Watson gathering (LA Basin)

Delivers at the station

Sfpp, L.p. - Watson Station ; Kinder Morgan Tank Storage - Carson Terminal

Leaves on

Kinder Morgan SFPP West Line · Colton and Phoenix · 20"/24" Watson and East Hynes-Colton · 28 terminals

Leaves on

Kinder Morgan SFPP San Diego Line · Orange, Mission Valley and San Diego · 16"; 10" to Mission Valley · 9 terminals

Tariff points here

Watson; Watson Station / Watson Station (SFPP)

Storage

Breakout tankage

Notes

The brochure also lists Watson as the origin for CALNEV traffic, which moves on the West Line to Colton. Sepulveda PL is a gathering line into Watson with its own tariff.

East Hynes is a second way into both lines for third-party product, so losing Watson is not a complete loss of Los Angeles Basin supply. How much East Hynes can carry is not published.

East Hynes Long Beach, CA injection point

A third-party injection point on the way out of the Los Angeles Basin: product enters the West and San Diego lines here as well as at Watson, and the West Line also delivers to a third-party terminal.

Arrives from

third-party injection (Marathon East Hynes) · Kinder Morgan SFPP Watson gathering (LA Basin)

Leaves on

Kinder Morgan SFPP West Line · Colton and Phoenix · 20"/24" Watson and East Hynes-Colton · 29 terminals

Leaves on

Kinder Morgan SFPP San Diego Line · Orange, Mission Valley and San Diego · 16"; 10" to Mission Valley · 9 terminals

Tariff points here

East Hynes

Notes

East Hynes is a second way in, not the only one: with it out, Watson still feeds both lines.

Legs come from the operator brochure; terminals and their remaining supply come from the same graph check as the outage tab. Tank volumes and how long breakout storage lasts are not modelled.

If this line goes down

terminals affected

44

no other supply on file

26

1–2 alternatives

18

3+ alternatives

0

Facilities left with no other input

• Kinder Morgan SFPP West Line
• Kinder Morgan SFPP San Diego Line
• Calnev Pipeline

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

Tariff points

Products & grades

Tariffs

Fees & terms

Minimum batch

No single system-wide number. FERC 194.29.0 Item 40 defers to each Local Tariff. By tariff: 195.21.0 (Sepulveda Jct→Watson) 10,000 bbl to AZ-bound / 5,000 bbl to NV-bound traffic; 196.32.0 (Watson/East Hynes→Calnev) 5,000 bbl accepted / 5,000 bbl delivered; 197.27.0 (El Paso/Diamond Jct→AZ/NM) 5,000 bbl / 2,500 bbl; 198.32.0 (→Phoenix) 10,000 bbl (Watson/East Hynes) or 5,000 bbl (Colton Transmix) / 2,500 bbl; 199.21.0 (→Reno/Sparks) 5,000/2,500 bbl; 200.25.0 (Portland→Eugene) 2,500/2,500 bbl; 202.13.0 (committed, El Paso→Tucson) 5,000/2,500 bbl; 34.17.0 and 32.19.0 (→Calnev NV) 5,000/2,500 bbl; Cal PUC 160 5,000/2,500 bbl default, 10,000/5,000 bbl to Colton/Ontario, 5,000/5,000 bbl Colton-for-Calnev-only; Cal PUC 161 5,000 bbl tender/2,500 bbl delivery, except Benicia-Richmond diesel fuel 10,000 bbl (bracketed by 5,000 bbl non-diesel batches). multiple · Item 40

Status & ownership

Status

All FERC and CPUC tariffs were reissued effective 2026-07-01 (2026 index). Western Gateway Pipeline (Phillips 66 and Kinder Morgan): a new Borger TX to Phoenix line, with SFPP's Colton-to-Phoenix West Line segment to be REVERSED to flow east-to-west into California. Target in-service mid-2029 (press/project page; not yet in tariffs). The West Line shut temporarily in January 2025 because of the Southern California wildfires. Origin supply is changing: Phillips 66 Los Angeles refinery closure (announced for late 2025; not verified this session) and Valero Benicia idling after April 2026 (industry press; Benicia is a CPUC 161 origin).

Ownership

SFPP, L.P. (ex-Santa Fe Pacific Pipelines) is a wholly owned Kinder Morgan subsidiary, part of Kinder Morgan Pacific Operations. The 'System' has four parts per FERC 194 Item 10.18: East Line, West Line, North Line and Oregon Line. The Colton, CA to Las Vegas, NV leg is a separate Kinder Morgan carrier, Calnev Pipe Line LLC, reached through the Calnev/SFPP joint tariff FERC 34.17.0. Nevada terminals linked to SFPP in our graph are really Calnev destinations.

Intrastate

Most SFPP delivery points in California are INTRASTATE, under CPUC tariffs: Cal PUC No. 159 (rules), No. 160 (South/West) and No. 161 (North), all effective 2026-07-01 under Advice Letter 56-O. Intrastate Portland-Eugene OR moves fall under the Oregon Line Transportation Policy, Issue 12 (eff 2025-05-01). Calnev also has Cal PUC No. 17 and No. 21 (intrastate rules and rates), which we did not read.

PHMSA / NPMS

OPID 18092 · SFPP, LP · Non-HVL product (refined products) (checked 2025-12-31, PHMSA HL annual report 2025 (OPID 18092; operator of record))

Operator mileage

SFPP, LP reports 2,800 onshore miles (2025 annual report): California 1,635, Arizona 560, New Mexico 326, Oregon 132, Nevada 78, Texas 69
By pipe size (in): ≤4″ 30, 6″ 221, 8″ 524, 10″ 328, 12″ 715, 14″ 3, 16″ 492, 20″ 446, 22″ 10, 24″ 33
Operator-wide figures from PHMSA hazardous-liquid annual reports; one OPID can cover several systems.

Research

HIGH confidence