NuStar Sinclair-Rawlins Pipeline

How product moves through this line

Starts at

Sinclair Refinery, Sinclair Wyoming

Delivers along the way to

Union Pacific Railroad, Rawlins, Wyoming

Notes

Length 6.75 miles; Capacity 8 MBD; https://www.sunocolp.com/segments/pipelines/view/sinclair-to-rawlins-pipeline

Fed by (1)

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

Hands off to (0)

None on file yet. That is a gap in the research, not evidence there is none.

Delivers to (1)

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

If this line goes down

terminals affected

1

no other supply on file

1

1–2 alternatives

0

3+ alternatives

0

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

Loss allowance

0.05% (1/20 of 1%) by volume tender deduction on petroleum products; 0.2% (2/10 of 1%) by volume on liquefied petroleum gases (MidCon East system) - Carrier is only accountable for delivery of accepted volume less this deduction FERC No. 17.47.0 · Item Item 20

Minimum batch

System default 10,000 Barrels at McKee DSCOLO Station inlet (FERC 76.1.0/65.30.0 Item 1.1); FERC 73.29.0 (McKee-Southlake/Altus AFB) sets its own minimum batch of 15,000 barrels at one Origin from one Shipper, overriding the system default for that route. | MidCon East system (FERC 17.47.0, Item 30): minimum shipment 5,000 bbl of one petroleum product (except LPG) at one origin at one time; LPG minimum 10,000 bbl; minimum consignment (Item 32) 1,000 bbl to any destination. FERC No. 76.1.0 / FERC No. 65.30.0 / FERC No. 73.29.0 · Item 1.1 / Minimum Batch

Status & ownership

Status

Temporary embargo on MidCon East movements to Vermillion, SD since 2024-11-19 (still in FERC 17.47.0). Valley Products expansion ('Northern Mexico Supply - Valley Expansion', Texas 114) and Laredo export pipeline serve Mexico with export-grade products. Dos Paises line moves naphtha from the Mexico border near Penitas to Brownsville. FERC 17.48.0 (MidCon East) is proposed. Houston 12-inch line operates as a Baytown-South Houston shuttle for ExxonMobil.

Ownership

Sunoco LP acquired NuStar Energy L.P. (closed May 2024). Tariffs are still filed by NuStar Logistics, L.P. (South/West products and crude) and NuStar Pipeline Operating Partnership, L.P. (MidCon East/North, ex-Kaneb, plus ammonia), with tariff administration by Energy Transfer (tariffs@energytransfer.com, Houston) and documents hosted on Energy Transfer's common-carrier portal. Sunoco LP's own site calls the MidCon lines 'SunocoMidCon'.

Intrastate

Most South Texas product movements are intrastate under Texas RRC tariffs (P-5 616747; T-4 permits 05047 (Texas 97), 06945 (Texas 99), 06288 (Texas 113)): Texas 97, 98, 99, 112, 113, 114. Colorado PUC 20 (airport). Kansas KCC 31 and North Dakota NDPSC 26 for MidCon. Not read in detail: KCC 31 and NDPSC 26 destination lists.

PHMSA / NPMS

OPID 10012 · NUSTAR PIPELINE OPERATING PARTNERSHIP L.P. · Non-HVL product (refined products) · intrastate (checked 2025-12-31, PHMSA HL annual report 2025 (OPID 10012; operator of record))

Operator mileage

NUSTAR PIPELINE OPERATING PARTNERSHIP L.P. reports 4,518 onshore miles (2025 annual report): Nebraska 915, Iowa 726, Kansas 632, Missouri 413, Louisiana 387, South Dakota 311, North Dakota 276, Arkansas 266, …
By pipe size (in): ≤4″ 132, 6″ 1,641, 8″ 1,596, 10″ 993, 16″ 156
Operator-wide figures from PHMSA hazardous-liquid annual reports; one OPID can cover several systems.

Research

HIGH confidence