Valero McKee Refinery
Valero Energy Corporation (legal entity Diamond Shamrock Refining Co., L.P. is a Valero subsidiary) · Valero Energy Corporation · Sunray, TX
- bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026
- 195,000
- pipelines it injects into
- 2
- delivery points reachable
- 10
- terminals on those points
- 5
- events on record
- 1
Capability
Crude distillation 195,000 bpd operable, 195,000 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) | 51,900 |
| Hydrocracking — gas oil | 25,700 |
Upgrading
| Catalytic reforming — low pressure | 28,000 |
| Catalytic reforming — high pressure | 14,300 |
| Vacuum distillation | 50,000 sd |
Treating — meets sulfur specs
| Hydrotreating — diesel | 48,000 sd |
| Hydrotreating — gasoline | 39,600 sd |
| Hydrotreating — naphtha / reformer feed | 44,400 sd |
Production capacity
Crude slate
Light, domestic U.S. crude -- Texas Panhandle/local production, plus West Texas Intermediate from Midland and supplies from Cushing OK, southwestern Kansas, and eastern Colorado.
Crude in & products out
| Direction | Mode | Route | Point / origin | Products | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| crude in | pipeline | McKee Crude Gathering System ~200+ miles of pipeline plus 20 truck-unloading sites with ~240,000 bbl storage; throughput capacity ~72,000 bpd, supplying roughly 40% of McKee's total crude runs from locally gathered Panhandle production. |
Sunray, TX / Texas Panhandle | crude | source |
| crude in | pipeline | NuStar Wichita Falls, Dixon, and Hooker pipelines NuStar Logistics, L.P.-owned pipelines that deliver crude oil into the McKee terminal in addition to Valero's own McKee crude system. |
Wichita Falls, TX area | crude | source |
| crude in | pipeline | Midland to McKee crude pipeline Valero's 2011 crude-unit expansion was explicitly designed to run additional West Texas Intermediate crude sourced from Midland, TX to feed the enlarged 195,000 bpd capacity. |
Midland, TX (Permian Basin) | crude | source |
| crude in | pipeline | Cushing to McKee crude pipeline Third-party pipelines connect McKee to the major Cushing, OK crude trading hub in addition to Midland, TX. |
Cushing, OK | crude | source |
| products out | pipeline | McKee to El Paso Pipeline 408-mile, 10-inch pipeline delivering diesel and gasoline produced at McKee to Valero's El Paso terminal; total capacity 63,000 bpd (21,000 bpd allocable to the 33 1/3% owning interest). |
El Paso, TX terminal | gasoline distillate | source |
| products out | pipeline | NuStar Southlake, Amarillo, and Colorado Springs pipelines Refined product distributed from the McKee terminal via these NuStar-operated pipelines. |
Southlake/Amarillo/Colorado Springs | gasoline distillate | source |
| products out | pipeline | Phillips/NuStar Denver Pipeline McKee typically supplies much of the gasoline consumed in the Denver market via pipeline, ~400 miles away. |
Denver, CO | gasoline | source |
| products out | truck rack | McKee terminal truck and rail racks The McKee terminal (~4.4 million bbl storage) includes truck racks and a rail rack in addition to pipeline outlets; products also reach Mexico and Arizona. |
Sunray, TX | gasoline jet fuel distillate asphalt LPG | source |
Pipeline reach
| Pipeline | Injects at | Delivery points | Terminals | Lowest ¢/bbl | Median ¢/bbl |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NuStar Pipeline |
McKee Station / McKee-DS / McKee-DSCOLO Station (Valero McKee refinery), Moore County same city
Sheerin Station, Moore County same city
|
8 | 4 | 41.68 | 214.78 |
| Phillips 66 Pipeline |
McKee Station (Valero McKee refinery) same city
|
2 | 1 | 172.66 | 303.62 |
Substitutes
Other refineries injecting into the same pipelines — the supply that could backfill an outage here.
NuStar Pipeline
- Exxonmobil Refining & Supply CO · Baytown, TX 564,500 bpd
- Valero Refining CO Texas LP · Corpus Christi, TX 290,000 bpd
- Phillips 66 Company · Ponca City, OK 228,000 bpd
- Citgo Refining & Chemical INC · Corpus Christi, TX 165,000 bpd
- Hf Sinclair El Dorado Refining LLC · El Dorado, KS 162,000 bpd
- Chs Mcpherson Refinery INC · Mcpherson, KS 119,000 bpd
- Diamond Shamrock Refining CO LP · Three Rivers, TX 89,000 bpd
- Tesoro Refining & Marketing CO · Mandan, ND 72,000 bpd
- Buckeye Texas Processing LLC · Corpus Christi, TX 60,000 bpd
- Magellan Processing LP · Corpus Christi, TX 50,000 bpd
- The San Antonio Refinery LLC · San Antonio, TX 20,000 bpd
Phillips 66 Pipeline
- Phillips 66 Company · Sweeny, TX 277,000 bpd
- Phillips 66 Company · Ponca City, OK 228,000 bpd
- Wrb Refining LP · Borger, TX 149,000 bpd
- Chs Mcpherson Refinery INC · Mcpherson, KS 119,000 bpd
- Pasadena Refining Systems INC · Pasadena, TX 118,750 bpd
- Phillips 66 Company · Billings, MT 71,000 bpd
- Exxonmobil Refining & Supply CO · Billings, MT 61,500 bpd
Events
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2022-05-02
turnaround
Valero delayed a major overhaul of fuel-producing units originally scheduled for May 2022, resetting it to spring 2023 so the refinery could keep producing high-margin gasoline and diesel amid strong demand. source
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.