Valero Three Rivers Refinery
Diamond Shamrock Refining Co LP (a legacy legal-entity name; operated and branded today as the 'Valero Three Rivers Refinery') · Valero Energy Corporation — Valero acquired Diamond Shamrock Refining & Marketing in 1997/2001-era corporate history and continues to operate the plant under the Valero brand; the 'Diamond Shamrock Refining CO LP' legal entity name in our graph/options is a stale, pre-rebrand name and should be treated as a Valero asset today. · Three Rivers, TX
- bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026
- 89,000
- pipelines it injects into
- 1
- delivery points reachable
- 8
- terminals on those points
- 59
- events on record
- 1
Capability
Crude distillation 89,000 bpd operable, 89,000 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) | 23,500 |
| Hydrocracking — gas oil | 27,500 |
Upgrading
| Catalytic reforming — low pressure | 23,030 |
| Catalytic reforming — high pressure | 9,800 |
| Vacuum distillation | 33,500 sd |
Treating — meets sulfur specs
| Hydrotreating — diesel | 28,000 sd |
| Hydrotreating — naphtha / reformer feed | 34,600 sd |
| Hydrotreating — heavy gas oil | 20,000 sd |
Production capacity
Crude slate
Mixed West Texas (Permian) and South Texas (Eagle Ford) light crude, delivered via third-party pipelines and trucks, per the Jan 2025 Pipeline & Gas Journal item.
Crude in & products out
| Direction | Mode | Route | Point / origin | Products | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| crude in | pipeline | Arrowhead System (ASTH — Arrowhead ST Holdings, LLC), operated by Harvest Midstream A Dec 2024 Pipeline & Gas Journal item on Harvest Midstream's acquisition of full ownership of ASTH explicitly states the ~515-mile Eagle Ford gathering system 'delivers to numerous crude export docks and into Flint Hills Corpus Christi and Valero Three Rivers refineries.' This is a real, named Eagle Ford crude gathering/delivery system feeding this refinery, distinct from the long-haul Permian pipelines listed in our graph. |
Eagle Ford Basin, South Texas | crude | source |
| crude in | truck | third-party trucking A Jan 2025 fire report describes the refinery as having 'access to crude oil from West Texas and South Texas through third-party pipelines and trucks.' |
West Texas and South Texas | crude | source |
| products out | pipeline | unspecified third-party pipelines The same Jan 2025 item states the refinery 'distributes its refined petroleum products primarily through third-party pipelines' without naming them. |
gasoline distillate | source | |
| products out | truck rack | Valero Three Rivers Refinery truck rack Self-evident refinery-direct truck rack, consistent with our graph's own terminal-discovery record for this facility. |
at the refinery | gasoline distillate | inferred |
Pipeline reach
| Pipeline | Injects at | Delivery points | Terminals | Lowest ¢/bbl | Median ¢/bbl |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NuStar Pipeline |
Three Rivers, Live Oak County (Valero Three Rivers refinery) same city
|
8 | 59 | 47.66 | 102.42 |
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
- Diamond Shamrock Refining CO LP · Sunray, TX 195,000 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
- 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
Events
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2025-01-01
fire
A large fire broke out and was extinguished at the Valero Three Rivers Refinery; no injuries were reported and the cause/extent of damage was not disclosed. 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.