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Buckeye Terminals, LLC - Birmingham

2400 Nabors Road, Birmingham, AL 35211

T-63-AL-2309 Rack market · Birmingham, AL gasoline jet fuel distillate renewable diesel transmix biodiesel
pipelines supplying
2
confirmed delivery points
0
lowest ¢/bbl into this terminal
45.16
terminals within 100 mi
19

Supplied by

Tariff delivery points this terminal sits on.

PipelineDelivery pointProductsMatchSource
Colonial Pipeline Birmingham (Jefferson County) gasoline distillate jet fuel same city FERC 99.95.0
Plantation Pipeline Birmingham, AL (Jefferson County) gasoline distillate same city FERC No. 155.49.0

Can be sourced from

Published routes into this terminal’s delivery points, cheapest first · ¢/bbl line-haul
OriginPipeline or modeRefineries at origin¢/bblSource
Collins (Covington County) MS Colonial Pipeline Valero Refining - Meraux LLC 45.16 FERC 99.95.0
Baton Rouge (E. Feliciana Parish) LA Colonial Pipeline Exxonmobil Refining & Supply CO
Placid Refining CO
63.38 FERC 99.95.0
Baton Rouge Dock Facility (W. Feliciana Parish) LA Colonial Pipeline junction or tank farm 63.38 FERC 99.95.0
Krotz Springs (St. Landry Parish) LA Colonial Pipeline Alon Refining Krotz Springs INC 68.19 FERC 99.95.0
Lake Charles (Calcasieu Parish) LA Colonial Pipeline Calcasieu Refining CO
Citgo Petroleum Corp
Phillips 66 Company
82.93 FERC 99.95.0
Hebert (Beaumont - Port Arthur) TX Colonial Pipeline Exxonmobil Refining & Supply CO 90.26 FERC 99.95.0
Houston (Pasadena, Cedar Bayou) TX Colonial Pipeline Deer Park Refining LP
Exxonmobil Refining & Supply CO
Marathon Petroleum CO LP
Pasadena Refining Systems INC
Valero Refining CO Texas LP
Valero Refining CO Texas LP
101.60 FERC 99.95.0
Collins (Covington County) MS Plantation Pipeline Valero Refining - Meraux LLC 109.96 FERC No. 155.49.0
Garyville (St. John the Baptist Parish), via Marathon Pipe Line (joint tariff 156.29.0) LA Plantation Pipeline proportional Marathon Petroleum CO LP
Shell Oil Products Us
114.65 FERC No. 155.49.0
Baton Rouge (East Baton Rouge Parish), incl. Dock Station and Bengal/Marathon proportional receipts LA Plantation Pipeline Exxonmobil Refining & Supply CO
Placid Refining CO
128.38 FERC No. 155.49.0
Pascagoula (Jackson County) MS Plantation Pipeline Chevron USA INC 128.38 FERC No. 155.49.0
Garyville (St. John the Baptist Parish), via Marathon Pipe Line (joint tariff 156.29.0) LA Plantation Pipeline joint Marathon Petroleum CO LP
Shell Oil Products Us
219.42 FERC No. 156.29.0

Cost to serve this terminal by pipeline

What it costs to move a gallon here from a supply origin at filed tariff rates: line-haul, the cost of financing the product on the way and in the tank, pipeline loss, and terminaling. It is a cost at filed rates, not a market price: add it to the origin spot price for a delivered cost. The figure shown is the lowest route that starts where product enters the pipeline system; where a second pipeline is needed to reach here, both are costed. Lines marked "estimate" are placeholders until the pipeline or terminal figure is on file; in the routes table, * marks a figure taken from the tariff.

Gasoline: product adder

¢/gal · product adder
5.08
¢/gal · line-haul tariff · published
2.42
¢/gal · carrying cost · calculated
0.72
¢/gal · pipeline loss · published
0.44
¢/gal · terminaling · estimate
1.50
days financed
14.1

Route used: from Houston on Colonial Pipeline to Birmingham (FERC 99.95.0 item 1). 6 routes in the table show a lower figure. They start part-way along a pipeline or at a secondary origin, so they leave out the cost of getting product there and do not set this figure.

How this adder is worked, line by line
Line ¢/gal Basis Source or working
Line-haul tariff 2.419 published Colonial Pipeline FERC 99.95.0 item 1: Houston (Pasadena, Cedar Bayou) → Birmingham (Jefferson County), 101.60 ¢/bbl
Carrying cost 0.725 calculated $3.180000/gal × 5.8900% ÷ 365 × 14.123 days (6.623 in transit, 2.50 waiting on the cycle, 5.00 in terminal inventory); transit estimated: 636 pipeline miles at 4.0 mph (Colonial Pipeline public statements: about 4 mph on the mainlines, 5-day shipping cycles)
Pipeline loss 0.436 published Colonial Pipeline FERC 98.74.0 item 76, Product Loss Allocation charge: 18.31 ¢/bbl
Terminaling 1.500 estimate Flat estimate: no fee on file for this terminal
Product adder 5.080 Sum of the lines above, over the origin spot price

Every published route, lowest adder first (11 of 11). Origins are priced at the same index here. "Origin must be cheaper by" is how far below the price at the origin of the route used above a route's own origin price has to be before that route wins.

Origin Pipeline Delivery point Line-haul Carrying Loss Terminaling Adder ¢/gal Days Origin must be cheaper by Tariff
Collins (Covington County) starts part-way along the line Colonial Pipeline Birmingham (Jefferson County) 1.08 0.51 0.44* 1.50 3.52 9.9 — FERC 99.95.0 item 80
Baton Rouge Dock Facility (W. Feliciana Parish) secondary origin Colonial Pipeline Birmingham (Jefferson County) 1.51 0.58 0.44* 1.50 4.03 11.3 — FERC 99.95.0 item 80
Baton Rouge (E. Feliciana Parish) secondary origin Colonial Pipeline Birmingham (Jefferson County) 1.51 0.58 0.44* 1.50 4.03 11.4 — FERC 99.95.0 item 80
Krotz Springs (St. Landry Parish) secondary origin Colonial Pipeline Birmingham (Jefferson County) 1.62 0.60 0.44* 1.50 4.16 11.7 — FERC 99.95.0 item 1
Lake Charles (Calcasieu Parish) secondary origin Colonial Pipeline Birmingham (Jefferson County) 1.97 0.66 0.44* 1.50 4.57 12.8 — FERC 99.95.0 item 1
Hebert (Beaumont - Port Arthur) secondary origin Colonial Pipeline Birmingham (Jefferson County) 2.15 0.68 0.44* 1.50 4.77 13.3 — FERC 99.95.0 item 1
Houston (Pasadena, Cedar Bayou) Colonial Pipeline Birmingham (Jefferson County) 2.42 0.72 0.44* 1.50 5.08 14.1 — FERC 99.95.0 item 1
Collins (Covington County) starts part-way along the line Plantation Pipeline Birmingham, AL (Jefferson County) 2.62 0.51 0.80* 1.50 5.42 9.9 0.34 FERC No. 155.49.0 item 10
Pascagoula (Jackson County) Plantation Pipeline Birmingham, AL (Jefferson County) 3.06 0.53 0.80* 1.50 5.88 10.3 0.80 FERC No. 155.49.0 item 10
Baton Rouge (East Baton Rouge Parish), incl. Dock Station and Bengal/Marathon proportional receipts Plantation Pipeline Birmingham, AL (Jefferson County) 3.06 0.58 0.80* 1.50 5.94 11.4 0.86 FERC No. 155.49.0 item 10
Garyville (St. John the Baptist Parish), via Marathon Pipe Line (joint tariff 156.29.0) Plantation Pipeline joint rate Birmingham, AL (Jefferson County) 5.22 0.58 0.80* 1.50 8.10 11.3 3.02 FERC No. 156.29.0 item 10

Diesel: product adder

¢/gal · product adder
5.45
¢/gal · line-haul tariff · published
2.42
¢/gal · carrying cost · calculated
1.09
¢/gal · pipeline loss · published
0.44
¢/gal · terminaling · estimate
1.50
days financed
14.1

Route used: from Houston on Colonial Pipeline to Birmingham (FERC 99.95.0 item 1). 6 routes in the table show a lower figure. They start part-way along a pipeline or at a secondary origin, so they leave out the cost of getting product there and do not set this figure.

How this adder is worked, line by line
Line ¢/gal Basis Source or working
Line-haul tariff 2.419 published Colonial Pipeline FERC 99.95.0 item 1: Houston (Pasadena, Cedar Bayou) → Birmingham (Jefferson County), 101.60 ¢/bbl
Carrying cost 1.092 calculated $4.790000/gal × 5.8900% ÷ 365 × 14.123 days (6.623 in transit, 2.50 waiting on the cycle, 5.00 in terminal inventory); transit estimated: 636 pipeline miles at 4.0 mph (Colonial Pipeline public statements: about 4 mph on the mainlines, 5-day shipping cycles)
Pipeline loss 0.436 published Colonial Pipeline FERC 98.74.0 item 76, Product Loss Allocation charge: 18.31 ¢/bbl
Terminaling 1.500 estimate Flat estimate: no fee on file for this terminal
Product adder 5.447 Sum of the lines above, over the origin spot price

Every published route, lowest adder first (11 of 11). Origins are priced at the same index here. "Origin must be cheaper by" is how far below the price at the origin of the route used above a route's own origin price has to be before that route wins.

Origin Pipeline Delivery point Line-haul Carrying Loss Terminaling Adder ¢/gal Days Origin must be cheaper by Tariff
Collins (Covington County) starts part-way along the line Colonial Pipeline Birmingham (Jefferson County) 1.08 0.76 0.44* 1.50 3.78 9.9 — FERC 99.95.0 item 80
Baton Rouge Dock Facility (W. Feliciana Parish) secondary origin Colonial Pipeline Birmingham (Jefferson County) 1.51 0.88 0.44* 1.50 4.32 11.3 — FERC 99.95.0 item 80
Baton Rouge (E. Feliciana Parish) secondary origin Colonial Pipeline Birmingham (Jefferson County) 1.51 0.88 0.44* 1.50 4.33 11.4 — FERC 99.95.0 item 80
Krotz Springs (St. Landry Parish) secondary origin Colonial Pipeline Birmingham (Jefferson County) 1.62 0.90 0.44* 1.50 4.46 11.7 — FERC 99.95.0 item 1
Lake Charles (Calcasieu Parish) secondary origin Colonial Pipeline Birmingham (Jefferson County) 1.97 0.99 0.44* 1.50 4.90 12.8 — FERC 99.95.0 item 1
Hebert (Beaumont - Port Arthur) secondary origin Colonial Pipeline Birmingham (Jefferson County) 2.15 1.03 0.44* 1.50 5.11 13.3 — FERC 99.95.0 item 1
Houston (Pasadena, Cedar Bayou) Colonial Pipeline Birmingham (Jefferson County) 2.42 1.09 0.44* 1.50 5.45 14.1 — FERC 99.95.0 item 1
Collins (Covington County) starts part-way along the line Plantation Pipeline Birmingham, AL (Jefferson County) 2.62 0.77 1.20* 1.50 6.08 9.9 0.63 FERC No. 155.49.0 item 10
Pascagoula (Jackson County) Plantation Pipeline Birmingham, AL (Jefferson County) 3.06 0.80 1.20* 1.50 6.55 10.3 1.11 FERC No. 155.49.0 item 10
Baton Rouge (East Baton Rouge Parish), incl. Dock Station and Bengal/Marathon proportional receipts Plantation Pipeline Birmingham, AL (Jefferson County) 3.06 0.88 1.20* 1.50 6.63 11.4 1.19 FERC No. 155.49.0 item 10
Garyville (St. John the Baptist Parish), via Marathon Pipe Line (joint tariff 156.29.0) Plantation Pipeline joint rate Birmingham, AL (Jefferson County) 5.22 0.88 1.20* 1.50 8.80 11.3 3.35 FERC No. 156.29.0 item 10
Inputs and assumptions behind these figures
  • Product value (for carrying cost and loss only): the prior day's spot price. Gasoline: OilPriceAPI GASOLINE_RBOB_USD, 2026-10-18. Diesel: OilPriceAPI HEATING_OIL_USD, 2026-10-18. These are the New York Harbor futures benchmarks, not a Gulf Coast price.
  • Interest rate: SOFR 3.89% (2026-10-15) + 2.0 points.
  • Transit (estimate): straight-line miles between the tariff origin and delivery point × 1.15, at 4.0 mph unless the pipeline has its own figure.
  • Days financed (estimate): transit, plus half a 5-day shipping cycle waiting to lift (once for each pipeline on a two-pipeline route), plus 5 days of stock at the terminal.
  • Pipeline loss: the charge or volume deduction the tariff states, where it states one (marked *; a deduction is costed at the product value above). Otherwise an estimate of 0.10% of product value per pipeline, two for a joint rate; that includes pipelines that share out actual losses without publishing a figure, and tariffs that state no loss term.
  • Terminaling: the carrier's terminal charge where its tariff states one (marked *), otherwise a flat 1.5¢/gal estimate.
  • Which route sets the figure: the lowest one that starts at a supply origin. On Colonial that is Houston. A rate that starts part-way along a pipeline, or at a secondary origin, stays in the table but does not set the figure. Where a rate starts at a point another carrier delivers to, the first carrier's lowest rate into that point is added, with its loss and time in the pipe; terminaling is charged once. The same is done where one pipeline files the movement as two rates. Which origins are treated this way is our own review of each system, not a statement in a tariff.
  • Rates used: each pipeline's ordinary filed rate. Committed, volume-tier, discount and bid rates are left out, as are conditional fees (shown on each pipeline page), additives, taxes and the value of line space.
  • Assumption set in force from 2026-10-01; review by 2027-01-01.

Stored snapshots of the product adder

Kept weekly, and whenever a tariff, terminal link, loss term or assumption changes. "What moved" compares each snapshot with the one before it.

Snapshot Product Route Adder ¢/gal What moved
2026-10-14 Diesel Houston · Colonial Pipeline 5.48 no change
2026-10-14 Gasoline Houston · Colonial Pipeline 5.09 no change
2026-10-11 Diesel Houston · Colonial Pipeline 5.42 no change
2026-10-11 Gasoline Houston · Colonial Pipeline 5.10 no change
2026-10-09 Diesel Houston · Colonial Pipeline 5.45 first snapshot
2026-10-09 Gasoline Houston · Colonial Pipeline 5.10 first snapshot

Terminals within 100 miles

TerminalCityMilesProducts (inferred from supply)
Kinder Morgan Southeast Terminals LLC T-63-AL-2307 Birmingham, AL 0.1 gasoline jet fuel distillate renewable diesel transmix biodiesel
Marathon Birmingham T-63-AL-2306 Birmingham, AL 0.3 gasoline jet fuel distillate renewable diesel transmix biodiesel
CITGO - Birmingham T-63-AL-2302 Birmingham, AL 0.3 gasoline jet fuel distillate renewable diesel transmix biodiesel
Chevron USA Incorporated- Birmingham T-63-AL-2301 Birmingham, AL 0.4 gasoline jet fuel distillate renewable diesel transmix biodiesel
Circle K Terminal Alabama LLC T-63-AL-2340 Birmingham, AL 0.5 gasoline jet fuel distillate renewable diesel transmix biodiesel
Equilon Enterprises LLC T-63-AL-2308 Birmingham, AL 0.5 gasoline jet fuel distillate renewable diesel transmix biodiesel
Sunoco LLC T-72-AL-2343 Birmingham, AL 0.6 gasoline jet fuel distillate renewable diesel transmix biodiesel
Buckeye Terminals, LLC T-63-AL-2312 Birmingham, AL 1.7 gasoline jet fuel distillate renewable diesel transmix biodiesel
Hunt Refining Company T-63-AL-2329 Tuscaloosa, AL 46.0 unknown
Murphy Oil USA - Oxford T-63-AL-2333 Anniston, AL 57.3 gasoline jet fuel distillate renewable diesel transmix biodiesel
IMTT Epic LLC T-63-AL-2330 Moundville, AL 66.6 gasoline jet fuel distillate biodiesel renewable diesel
Buckeye Terminals, LLC T-63-AL-2304 Montgomery, AL 78.0 gasoline jet fuel distillate biodiesel renewable diesel
Teppco Terrminaling and Marketing Company T-76-AL-0001 Boligee, AL 80.7 unknown
IMTT Epic LLC T-63-AL-2326 Montgomery, AL 81.3 gasoline jet fuel distillate biodiesel renewable diesel
Murphy Oil USA, Inc. - Montgomery T-63-AL-2327 Montgomery, AL 81.4 gasoline jet fuel distillate biodiesel renewable diesel
Marathon Montgomery T-63-AL-2325 Montgomery, AL 81.5 gasoline jet fuel distillate biodiesel renewable diesel
Plantation - Montgomery Transmix Tank T-63-AL-2338 Montgomery, AL 81.6 gasoline jet fuel distillate biodiesel renewable diesel
South Florida Materials Corp T-63-AL-2323 Montgomery, AL 81.6 gasoline jet fuel distillate biodiesel renewable diesel
US Ventures T-63-AL-2322 Montgomery, AL 81.6 gasoline jet fuel distillate biodiesel renewable diesel

Delivered ethanol cost

Estimate over Chicago ethanol (CHI)
+20.59¢/gal

From ADM Decatur IL (Decatur, IL) by NS single tank car, Decatur, IL → Birmingham, AL: about 625 rail miles and 6.6 days in transit, then transload and truck to the rack.

Origin plant page →

Assumptions: TOE (Round 2 adders, realistic transit)

Cost line¢/galHow
Basis -5.50 table · Origin-state discount to Chicago
Rail tariff +18.39 published · NSRQ 70120 item 1000
Rail car lease +3.63 calculated · 1,300/month, 10 + 2 + 2 × 6.58 days
Fuel surcharge +0.00 not applicable · Tariff: not subject to fuel surcharge
Transload +1.25 flat
Truck freight +1.25 flat · Transload to terminal
Wholesale margin +0.00 flat
Terminal charge +1.15 flat · Terminaling estimate
Carrying cost +0.42 calculated · $2.262 × 5% ÷ 365 × (6.58 + 7 days)
Delivered over CHI+20.59
  • Built on an unescalated rate: NSRQ 70120 dates from 2018-01-02, "subject to future increases".
  • 5 plant(s) in KY, PA, TN not costed: no basis to Chicago on record for those states.

Options compared

OriginMoveDaysBasis ¢Delivered ¢/gal
ADM Decatur IL Decatur, IL NS · Decatur, IL → Birmingham, AL 6.6 -5.50 +20.59
Crysalis Biosciences Inc Sauget, IL NS · St. Louis, MO → Birmingham, AL 6.4 -5.50 +21.27
One Earth Energy LLC Gibson City, IL NS · Bloomington, IL → Birmingham, AL 6.7 -5.50 +21.37
Marquis Energy LLC Hennepin, IL NS · Kankakee, IL → Birmingham, AL 8.4 -5.50 +22.03
Show Me Ethanol Carrollton, MO NS · Kansas City, MO → Birmingham, AL 8.4 -5.50 +22.68
Cardinal Ethanol LLC Union City, IN NS · Muncie, IN → Birmingham, AL 6.7 +0.00 +26.20
POET Biorefining - Shelbyville LLC Shelbyville, IN NS · Marion, IN → Birmingham, AL 6.5 +0.00 +26.24
The Andersons Marathon Holdings LLC Logansport, IN NS · Ft Wayne, IN → Birmingham, AL 6.7 +0.00 +26.33
Guardian Lima LLC Lima, OH NS · Sandusky, OH → Birmingham, AL 8.3 +0.00 +26.45
South Bend Ethanol LLC South Bend, IN NS · Elkhart, IN → Birmingham, AL 8.5 +0.00 +27.07

Published rail rates into this terminal

Destination rate group: Birmingham, AL (NS) (Birmingham is a listed station). Published single-car tank-car rates from the ethanol plants in each origin group, cheapest first — ¢/gal at 30,000 gal a car, line haul only. Delivery here assumes a rail or transload point in the group, then truck to the rack.

NSRQ 70120 price authority effective January 2, 2018, "subject to future increases" — current NS prices are published only through AccessNS. Not subject to fuel surcharge (note G556). Lanes to Norcross GA, Spartanburg SC, Alexandria VA and Pineville NC include transloading at the TBT (notes P949-P952).

From rate groupRailroad$/car¢/galEthanol plants in the groupTariff
Knoxville, TN NS 4,223 14.08 Primary Products Investments LLC Loudon, TN
NSRQ 70120 item 1000
Driftwood, PA NS 5,065 16.88 Pennsylvania Grain Prcsg LLC Clearfield, PA
NSRQ 70120 item 1000
Sandusky, OH NS 5,458 18.19 POET Biorefining - Fostoria LLC Fostoria, OH
Guardian Lima LLC Lima, OH
NSRQ 70120 item 1000
Decatur, IL NS 5,516 18.39 ADM Decatur IL Decatur, IL
NSRQ 70120 item 1000
Muncie, IN NS 5,541 18.47 Cardinal Ethanol LLC Union City, IN
POET Biorefining - Portland LLC Portland, IN
POET Biorefining - Alexandria LLC Alexandria, IN
NSRQ 70120 item 1000
Ft Wayne, IN NS 5,572 18.57 The Andersons Marathon Holdings LLC Logansport, IN
Valero Renewable Fuels LLC Bluffton, IN
POET Biorefining - Leipsic LLC Leipsic, OH
NSRQ 70120 item 1000
Marion, IN NS 5,572 18.57 POET Biorefining - North Manchester LLC North Manchester, IN
POET Biorefining - Shelbyville LLC Shelbyville, IN
Central Indiana Ethanol LLC Marion, IN
NSRQ 70120 item 1000
Elkhart, IN NS 5,629 18.76 South Bend Ethanol LLC South Bend, IN
NSRQ 70120 item 1000
Louisville, KY NS 5,629 18.76 Parallel Products Inc Louisville, KY
NSRQ 70120 item 1000
Chicago, IL NS 5,629 18.76 Chicago index barrels (CHI) NSRQ 70120 item 1000
Lansing, MI NS 5,739 19.13 The Andersons Marathon Holdings LLC Albion, MI
Carbon Green Bioenergy LLC Lake Odessa, MI
NSRQ 70120 item 1000
St. Louis, MO NS 5,739 19.13 Green Plains Madison LLC Madison, IL
Crysalis Biosciences Inc Sauget, IL
NSRQ 70120 item 1000
Bloomington, IL NS 5,739 19.13 One Earth Energy LLC Gibson City, IL
Biourja Renewables LLC Peoria, IL
NSRQ 70120 item 1000
Kankakee, IL NS 5,770 19.23 Marquis Energy LLC Hennepin, IL
NSRQ 70120 item 1000
Kansas City, MO NS 5,968 19.89 Show Me Ethanol Carrollton, MO
NSRQ 70120 item 1000
Evansville, IN NS 6,475 21.58 Green Plains Mount Vernon LLC Mount Vernon, IN
Valero Renewable Fuels LLC Mt Vernon, IN
Grain Processing Corp Washington, IN
NSRQ 70120 item 1000