Big West Oil Refinery
Big West Oil, LLC · FJ Management Inc. (Jenkins family holding company; formerly the corporate parent of Flying J truck stops, which Big West Oil continues to supply) · North Salt Lake, UT
- bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026
- 31,664
- pipelines it injects into
- 1
- delivery points reachable
- 1
- terminals on those points
- 1
- events on record
- 0
Capability
Crude distillation 31,664 bpd operable, 31,664 operating (EIA-820, as of 2026-01-01). Downstream units below, barrels per calendar day.
Conversion — makes gasoline and diesel from heavier oil
| Catalytic cracking (FCC) | 12,300 |
Upgrading
| Catalytic reforming — high pressure | 8,200 |
Treating — meets sulfur specs
| Hydrotreating — diesel | 13,000 sd |
| Hydrotreating — naphtha / reformer feed | 11,800 sd |
Production capacity
Crude slate
Not independently confirmed this session. Regional Salt Lake refineries as a group are understood to run a mix of Uinta Basin waxy/paraffinic crude and Wyoming/Rocky Mountain sweet crude; Big West Oil's specific slate could not be sourced within budget.
Crude in & products out
| Direction | Mode | Route | Point / origin | Products | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| crude in | truck | Uinta Basin crude trucking Not independently confirmed for Big West Oil specifically this session (search tools were unavailable/blocked for most of this task), but it is well established in industry reporting that Salt Lake-area refineries receive a substantial share of the region's waxy Uinta Basin crude by heated tanker truck because the crude's high paraffin content requires heating and no large common-carrier crude pipeline currently connects the Uinta Basin to Salt Lake City refineries (this gap is the stated rationale for the proposed Uinta Basin Railway rail project). Treat as a plausible inference, not a confirmed fact for this specific refinery. |
Uinta Basin, Duchesne/Uintah counties, UT | crude | inferred |
| products out | truck rack | Big West Oil, LLC Refinery-direct truck rack; self-evident for an operating refinery of this scale and consistent with Big West Oil's role supplying the regional Flying J/Pilot Flying J travel-center network by truck. |
Refinery site, North Salt Lake, UT | gasoline distillate | inferred |
Pipeline reach
| Pipeline | Injects at | Delivery points | Terminals | Lowest ¢/bbl | Median ¢/bbl |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HF Sinclair / Holly Energy |
Pioneer Products Pipe Line Jct., Utah same city
|
1 | 1 | 44.05 | 44.05 |
Substitutes
Other refineries injecting into the same pipelines — the supply that could backfill an outage here.
HF Sinclair / Holly Energy
- Hf Sinclair El Dorado Refining LLC · El Dorado, KS 162,000 bpd
- Hf Sinclair Navajo Refining LLC · Artesia, NM 110,000 bpd
- Alon USA Energy INC · Big Spring, TX 73,000 bpd
- Tesoro Refining & Marketing CO · Salt Lake City, UT 70,000 bpd
- Chevron USA INC · Salt Lake City, UT 54,720 bpd
- Hf Sinclair Woods Cross Refining LLC · Woods Cross, UT 41,705 bpd
- Silver Eagle Refining · Woods Cross, UT 15,000 bpd
Events
No events on record.
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.