# Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend Refinery

Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend Refinery, Saint Paul, MN. 335,000 bpd crude capacity (EIA-820). Injects into Magellan Midstream; reaches 0 delivery points and 0 terminals by published tariff. Crude supply, outlets, events.

- Location: Saint Paul, MN
- Status: active
- Crude capacity: 335,000 bpd (EIA-820)
- Operator: Flint Hills Resources LP
- Parent: Koch Industries, Inc.

## Pipelines it injects into
- Magellan Midstream at Pine Bend, MN (Flint Hills Resources) (research) — https://thinkingonenergy.com/supply/pipeline/magellan-midstream/

## Crude supply
- pipeline: Enbridge Mainline (Lakehead System) — Enbridge Mainline splits at a junction near Cottage Grove/Clearbrook, MN; one branch (Minnesota Pipe Line) feeds Pine Bend. Roughly 80% of Pine Bend's crude feedstock is heavy Canadian crude arriving via this Enbridge system.
- pipeline: Minnesota Pipe Line — Minnesota Pipe Line Company (jointly owned by Marathon, Flint Hills Resources and Trof, Inc.) carries crude from Clearbrook south to the Twin Cities, serving both Pine Bend (Flint Hills) and St. Paul Park (Marathon).
- pipeline: Wood River Pipeline — Wikipedia states this brings additional crude from the south; reported plans (as of source) to reverse its flow direction. Not independently corroborated with a second source in this budget-limited pass.

## Product outlets
- pipeline: Magellan Midstream (Minnesota/Upper Midwest system) — State of Minnesota infrastructure documentation and Magellan public materials describe Magellan's refined-products pipeline system serving Minnesota/North Dakota terminals (e.g. Marshall, Watertown) 'from refineries in eastern Minnesota,' consistent with a Pine Bend origin, though no single source gives an explicit Pine Bend-to-Magellan injection point name.
- pipeline: Dedicated jet fuel pipeline to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) — Wikipedia describes a dedicated pipeline from the refinery to MSP airport for jet fuel.
- pipeline: "Wisconsin Pipeline" (distillate products eastward) — Named only generically as 'Wisconsin Pipeline' in Wikipedia; could not confirm the operator/canonical pipeline name in this pass.
- barge: Mississippi River marine terminal — Refinery dredges the Mississippi River to maintain barge navigation for product shipments.
- truck_rack: Flint Hills Pine Bend Refinery truck rack — Distribution 'beyond pipelines' explicitly includes semi-trailer trucks.
- rail: Rail (BNSF / Canadian Pacific serve the Twin Cities refining corridor) — Wikipedia confirms railroad cars as a distribution method; BNSF and Canadian Pacific are the two Class I carriers serving the Rosemount/Inver Grove Heights area, but a source explicitly naming both by name at Pine Bend was not found in this pass.

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Source: Thinking On Energy Supply Explorer — https://thinkingonenergy.com/supply/refinery/flint-hills-resources-lp-saint-paul-mn/
Built from published FERC pipeline tariffs, EIA-820, the IRS Terminal Control Number list and sourced research. Rates are line-haul only. Cite as: Thinking On Energy, Supply Explorer, 2026-09-28.