Lion Oil El Dorado Refinery
Lion Oil Company (LLC) · Delek US Holdings, Inc. · El Dorado, AR
- bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026
- 83,000
- pipelines it injects into
- 2
- delivery points reachable
- 15
- terminals on those points
- 51
- 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
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 transportation system carrying crude the final leg from the Magnolia terminal to the refinery. |
Magnolia terminal, AR to El Dorado 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 Foreign and Gulf of Mexico offshore crude is shipped to Port Neches, TX, then moved via Paline Pipeline to Longview, TX, then via the Mid-Valley pipeline system to Magnolia, AR, tying into the El Dorado Pipeline Company's crude line. |
Port Neches, TX (foreign/offshore crude offloading) | 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 refined-products terminal 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. |
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 |
Pipeline reach
| Pipeline | Injects at | Delivery points | Terminals | Lowest ¢/bbl | Median ¢/bbl |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise / TEPPCO |
El Dorado (Union Co., AR) same city
|
13 | 48 | 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
- Phillips 66 Company · Ponca City, OK 228,000 bpd
- Valero Refining CO Texas LP · Texas City, TX 225,000 bpd
- Lima Refining Company · Lima, OH 183,000 bpd
- Hf Sinclair El Dorado Refining LLC · El Dorado, KS 162,000 bpd
- Coffeyville Resources Rfg & Mktg · Coffeyville, KS 132,000 bpd
- Chs Mcpherson Refinery INC · Mcpherson, KS 119,000 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
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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.