Flint Hills Resources Corpus Christi Refinery — West Plant
Flint Hills Resources LP (Koch Industries, Inc. subsidiary) · Koch Industries, Inc. — no ownership change found this session. · Corpus Christi West, TX
- bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026
- 290,000
- pipelines it injects into
- 1
- delivery points reachable
- 0
- terminals on those points
- 0
- events on record
- 2
Capability
Crude distillation 290,000 bpd operable, 290,000 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) | 57,000 |
| Hydrocracking — gas oil | 15,000 |
Upgrading
| Vacuum distillation | 87,500 sd |
Treating — meets sulfur specs
| Hydrotreating — diesel | 92,000 sd |
| Hydrotreating — kerosene & jet | 32,000 sd |
| Hydrotreating — gasoline | 72,000 sd |
| Hydrotreating — naphtha / reformer feed | 60,000 sd |
Production capacity
Crude slate
Not independently documented this session at the West-plant level.
Crude in & products out
This refinery hasn’t been researched yet. Its pipeline links below come from tariff origin points.
Pipeline reach
This refinery injects at tariff origin points, but those systems’ rates haven’t been transcribed yet.
Substitutes
Other refineries injecting into the same pipelines — the supply that could backfill an outage here.
Flint Hills Resources
- Valero Refining CO Texas LP · Corpus Christi, TX 290,000 bpd
- Citgo Refining & Chemical INC · Corpus Christi, TX 165,000 bpd
- Flint Hills Resources LP · Corpus Christi East, TX 87,500 bpd
- Buckeye Texas Processing LLC · Corpus Christi, TX 60,000 bpd
- Magellan Processing LP · Corpus Christi, TX 50,000 bpd
Events
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2026-05-23
outage
A power outage at Flint Hills Resources' Corpus Christi refinery complex (reported as 365,000 b/d) triggered more than 24 hours of flaring, per a TCEQ filing reported by OPIS; not attributable to East vs. West plant specifically. source
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2025-09
other
Flint Hills publicly warned Corpus Christi City Council that planned reductions in the city's industrial water allocation 'would force the shutdown of at least some aspects of our operations'; no shutdown has been reported as having occurred. 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.