Lion Oil El Dorado Refinery

Lion Oil Company (LLC) · Delek US Holdings, Inc. · El Dorado, AR

Operating PADD3 IRS refinery no. R-71-AR-0012 asphalt

Aerial view of the site Imagery: USDA, USGS The National Map (public domain)

bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026: 83,000
pipelines it injects into · +2 same-city tariff origins: 0
delivery points reachable: 15
terminals on those points: 23
events on record: 1

Capability

Crude distillation 83,000 bpd operable, 83,000 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)

20,500

Upgrading

Catalytic reforming — low pressure	14,800
Vacuum distillation	45,000 sd

Treating — meets sulfur specs

Hydrotreating — diesel	35,000 sd
Hydrotreating — gasoline	8,750 sd
Hydrotreating — naphtha / reformer feed	20,000 sd
Hydrotreating — heavy gas oil	21,000 sd

Production capacity

Alkylates · 5,000 Asphalt road oil · 20,500 Hydrogen mmcfd · 10 Isomerization isopentane isohexane · 8,000 Sulfur short tons day · 90

Crude slate

Combination of domestic sweet/sour crude from local Arkansas/Louisiana gathering, Gulf of Mexico offshore crude, and historically foreign high-sulfur crude (incl. Saudi); positioned as the largest independent high-sulfur crude refiner in its region.

Crude in & products out

Direction	Mode	Route	Point / origin	Products	Source
crude in	pipeline	El Dorado Pipeline Company crude system 28-mile crude oil system carrying crude the final leg from Magnolia to the refinery. The carrier's crude tariff, FERC No. 2.17.0, lists origins at the Magnolia Storage Facility and at Shuler, AR, both delivering to the El Dorado Storage Facility at 136.99 cents per barrel for the 2025-26 index year.	Magnolia Storage Facility (Magnolia, AR) and Shuler, AR to the El Dorado Storage Facility at the refinery	crude	source
crude in	pipeline	Magnolia-El Dorado crude oil system 80-mile system that feeds the El Dorado Pipeline Company's line into the refinery.	Shreveport, LA to Magnolia terminal, AR	crude	source
crude in	pipeline	SALA Gathering Systems Local crude oil gathering system (part of a combined 800+ mile gathering network operated with Lion Oil Trading & Transportation) delivering domestic crude mostly from the Smackover field near El Dorado.	Southern Arkansas / northern Louisiana (Smackover field area)	crude	source
crude in	pipeline	Paline Pipeline / Mid-Valley Pipeline Historic route, as described in Arkansas DEQ air permit 2036-A for an El Dorado Pipeline Company tank at Magnolia, written about 2002. Foreign and Gulf of Mexico crude was shipped to Port Neches, TX, pumped through the Paline pipeline system to Longview, TX, then through the Mid-Valley pipeline system to Magnolia, AR, where it tied into the El Dorado Pipeline Company's crude line.	Port Neches, TX (foreign and Gulf of Mexico crude offloaded into storage)	crude	source
crude in	pipeline	ExxonMobil Pipeline / LOOP connection Additional crude diversity accessed via ExxonMobil pipeline and the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) salt-dome storage.	Gulf of Mexico offshore fields (Poseidon, Mars, Southern Green Canyon, Eugene Island, Thunder Horse) and foreign imports (historically incl. Saudi Aramco)	crude	source
crude in	rail	El Dorado rail offloading racks Two crude oil offloading racks built 2012, capacity 25,000 bpd light or 12,000 bpd heavy crude; acquired by Delek Logistics Partners, LP in 2015.	Rail-delivered crude	crude	source
products out	truck rack	Delek Logistics Operating, LLC El Dorado terminal (IRS T-71-AR-2451) Delek Logistics Operating, LLC ('OpCo') owns a refined-products terminal and storage tanks on and adjacent to the El Dorado refinery, acquired from Lion Oil in a 2014 drop-down. The IRS terminal list shows it at 1000 McHenry, El Dorado, AR as terminal T-71-AR-2451. It is the only IRS terminal in El Dorado, AR.	El Dorado refinery	gasoline distillate asphalt	source
products out	truck rack	Owned asphalt distribution terminal Lion Oil owns and operates a dedicated asphalt distribution terminal in El Dorado.	El Dorado, AR	asphalt	source
products out	pipeline	El Dorado Pipeline Company refined products lines El Dorado Pipeline Company, LLC (Delek Logistics Partners) owns the lines from the refinery to the Enterprise TE Products Pipeline terminals at El Dorado. Its tariff, FERC No. 3.17.0 for the 2025-26 index year, names the refinery as the origin and carries gasoline and diesel at 16.10 cents per barrel to the Enterprise terminals. This is the refinery's bulk pipeline outlet.	El Dorado Refinery (El Dorado, AR)	gasoline distillate	source
products out	pipeline	Enterprise TE Products Pipeline The connection is not at the plant. Gasoline and diesel reach the Enterprise line over the El Dorado Pipeline Company lines. That carrier's tariff, FERC No. 3.17.0, also covers capacity it leases on the Enterprise line from El Dorado to Memphis, Tennessee, at 162.47 cents per barrel for the 2025-26 index year.	Enterprise TE Products Pipeline terminals, El Dorado, AR, reached over the El Dorado Pipeline Company lines from the refinery	gasoline distillate	source

Pipeline reach

Pipeline	Injects at	Delivery points	Terminals	Lowest ¢/bbl	Median ¢/bbl
Enterprise / TEPPCO	El Dorado (Union Co., AR) per research	13	20	216.01	305.55
Delek Logistics Pipeline	El Dorado Refinery same city	2	3	16.10	162.47

Substitutes

Other refineries injecting into the same pipelines — the supply that could backfill an outage here.

Enterprise / TEPPCO

Motiva Enterprises LLC · Port Arthur, TX 656,400 bpd
Exxonmobil Refining & Supply CO · Beaumont, TX 612,000 bpd
Exxonmobil Refining & Supply CO · Baytown, TX 564,500 bpd
Premcor Refining Group INC · Port Arthur, TX 385,000 bpd
Totalenergies Petrochem & Refg USA · Port Arthur, TX 238,000 bpd
Valero Refining CO Texas LP · Texas City, TX 225,000 bpd
Lima Refining Company · Lima, OH 183,000 bpd
Coffeyville Resources Rfg & Mktg · Coffeyville, KS 132,000 bpd
Pasadena Refining Systems INC · Pasadena, TX 118,750 bpd
Wynnewood Refining CO · Wynnewood, OK 74,500 bpd
Calumet Shreveport Refining LLC · Shreveport, LA 57,000 bpd

Events

2025-05-01 other
Delek entities (including Lion Oil, Delek Logistics Partners, SALA, Magnolia Pipeline, El Dorado Pipeline) entered a Fifth Amended and Restated Omnibus Agreement covering shared logistics/pipeline arrangements - a routine intercompany renewal, not an operational change. 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.