dk-20251231
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form 10-K
(Mark One)
☑ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 18 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the Fiscal Year Ended December 31 , 2025
OR
☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from to
Commission file number 001-38142
DELEK US HOLDINGS, INC .
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
35-2581557
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
310 Seven Springs Way , Suite 500
Brentwood Tennessee 37027
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
( 615 ) 771-6701
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code )
Not applicable
( Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each class Trading Symbol Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $0.01 DK New York Stock Exchange
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ☑ N o ☐
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The aggregate market value of the common stock held by non-affiliates as of June 30, 2025 was approximately $ 1,243,507,000 , based upon the closing sale price of the registrant's common stock on the New York Stock Exchange on that date. For purposes of this calculation only, all directors and officers subject to Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 are deemed to be affiliates.
At February 20, 2026, there were 59,808,421 shares of the registrant's common stock, $0.01 par value, outstanding (excluding securities held by, or for the account of, the Company or its subsidiaries).
Documents incorporated by reference
Portions of the registrant's definitive Proxy Statement to be delivered to stockholders in connection with the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days after December 31, 2025, are incorporated by reference into Part III of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Table of Contents
Delek US Holdings, Inc.
Annual Report on Form 10-K
For the Annual Period Ending December 31, 2025
PART I
Items 1 & 2. Business and Properties
9
Item 1A. Risk Factors
26
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
49
Item 1C. Cybersecurity
49
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
51
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
51
PART II
Item 5. Market for Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
51
Item 6. Reserved
52
Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
53
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
88
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
89
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
89
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
90
Item 9B. Other Information
91
Item 9C. Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections
91
PART III
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance
91
Item 11. Executive Compensation
92
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
92
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence
92
Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services
92
PART IV
Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules
93
Item 16. Form 10-K Summary
105
Signatures
106
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PART I
Delek US Holdings, Inc. is a registrant pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") under the ticker symbol "DK." Effective July 1, 2017, we acquired the outstanding common stock of Alon USA Energy, Inc. ("Alon") (the "Delek/Alon Merger"), resulting in a new post-combination consolidated registrant renamed as Delek US Holdings, Inc.
Unless otherwise noted or the context requires otherwise, the terms "we," "our," "us," "Delek" and the "Company" are used in this report to refer to Delek US Holdings, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries for all periods presented. Our business consists of two operating segments: refining and logistics.
As of December 31, 2025, we owned a 63.3% limited partner interest as well as a non-economic general partner interest in Delek Logistics Partners, LP ("Delek Logistics", NYSE:DKL), a publicly-traded master limited partnership that we formed in April 2012.
Statements in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, other than purely historical information, including statements regarding our plans, strategies, objectives, beliefs, expectations and intentions are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements that refer to the acquisition of H2O Midstream Intermediate, LLC, H2O Midstream Permian LLC, and H2O Midstream LLC ("H2O Midstream") (the "H2O Midstream Acquisition") and the acquisition of Gravity Water Intermediate Holdings LLC ("Gravity") (the "Gravity Acquisition"), including any statements regarding the expected benefits, synergies, growth opportunities, impact on liquidity and prospects, and other financial and operating benefits thereof, the information concerning possible future results of operations, business and growth strategies, including as the same may be impacted by any ongoing military conflict, such as the war between Russia and Ukraine ("the Russia-Ukraine War"), financing plans, expectations that regulatory developments or other matters will or will not have a material adverse effect on our business or financial condition, our competitive position and the effects of competition, the projected growth of the industry in which we operate, and the benefits and synergies to be obtained from our completed and any future acquisitions or dispositions, including the sale of our Retail Stores, statements of management’s goals and objectives, and other similar expressions concerning matters that are not historical facts. Words such as "may," "will," "should," "could," "would," "predicts," "potential," "continue," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "appears," "projects" and similar expressions, as well as statements in future tense, identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties, including those discussed below and in Item 1A. Risk Factors, which may cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. See also "Forward-Looking Statements" included in Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
See the “Glossary of Terms” beginning on page 4 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for definitions of certain business and industry terms used herein.
Available Information
Our Internet website address is www.DelekUS.com and X account is @DelekUSHoldings . Information contained on our website is not part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Our reports, proxy and information statements, and any amendments to such documents are filed electronically with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and are available on our Internet website in the “Investor Relations” section ( ir.delekus.com ), free of charge, as soon as reasonably practicable after we file or furnish such material to the SEC. We also post our Governance Guidelines, Code of Business Conduct & Ethics and the charters of our Board of Directors’ committees in the “Corporate Governance” section of our website, accessible by navigating to the “About Us” section on our Internet website. We will provide any of these documents to any stockholder that makes a written request to the Corporate Secretary, Delek US Holdings, Inc., 310 Seven Springs Way, Suite 500, Brentwood, Tennessee 37027.
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Glossary of Terms
Glossary of Terms
The following are definitions of certain industry terms used in this Annual Report on Form 10-K:
Alkylation Unit - A refinery unit utilizing an acid catalyst to combine smaller hydrocarbon molecules to form larger molecules in the gasoline boiling range to produce a high octane gasoline blendstock, which is referred to as alkylate.
Bakken Basin - A large sedimentary basin in North Dakota, Montana and Canada.
Barrel - A unit of volumetric measurement equivalent to 42 U.S. gallons.
Biodiesel - A renewable fuel produced from vegetable oils or animal fats that can be blended with petroleum-derived diesel to produce biodiesel blends for use in diesel engines. Pure biodiesel is referred to as B100, whereas blends of biodiesel are referenced by how much biodiesel is in the blend (e.g., a B5 blend contains five volume percent biodiesel and 95 volume percent ULSD).
Blendstocks - Various products or intermediate streams that are combined with other components of similar type and distillation range to produce finished gasoline, diesel fuel or other refined products. Blendstocks may include natural gasoline, hydrotreated Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit gasoline, alkylate, ethanol, reformate, butane, diesel, biodiesel, kerosene, light cycle oil or slurry, among others.
Bpd/bpd - Barrels per calendar day.
Brent Crude (Brent) - A light, sweet crude oil, though not as light as WTI. Brent is the leading global price benchmark for Atlantic basin crude oil.
CBOB - Motor gasoline blending components intended for blending with oxygenates, such as ethanol, to produce finished conventional motor gasoline.
CERCLA - Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act.
Colonial Pipeline - A pipeline owned and operated by the Colonial Pipeline Company that originates near Houston, Texas and terminates near New York, New York, connecting the U.S. refinery region of the Gulf Coast with customers throughout the southern and eastern United States.
Complexity Index - A measure of secondary conversion capacity of a refinery relative to its primary distillation capacity used to quantify and rank the complexity of various refineries. Generally, more complex refineries have a higher index number.
Crack spread - The crack spread is a measure of the difference between market prices for crude oil and refined products and is a commonly used proxy within the industry to estimate or identify trends in refining margins.
Cushing - Cushing, Oklahoma.
Delaware Basin - A large sedimentary basin in West Texas and New Mexico.
Delayed Coking Unit (Coker) - A refinery unit that processes ("cracks") heavy oils, such as the bottom cuts of crude oil from the crude or vacuum units, to produce blendstocks for light transportation fuels or feedstocks for other units and petroleum coke.
Direct operating expenses - O perating expenses attributed to the respective segment.
EISA - Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.
Enterprise Pipeline System - A major product pipeline transport system that reaches from the Gulf Coast into the northeastern United States.
EPA - The Environmental Protection Agency.
ESG - Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance is an evaluation of an entity's collective conscientiousness for social and environmental factors.
Ethanol - An oxygenated blendstock that is blended with sub-grade (CBOB) or conventional gasoline to produce a finished gasoline.
E-10 - A 90% gasoline-10% ethanol blend.
E-15 - An 85% gasoline-15% ethanol blend.
E-85 - A blend of gasoline and 70%-85% ethanol.
Feedstocks - Crude oil and petroleum products used as inputs in refining processes.
FERC - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
FIFO - First-in, first-out inventory accounting method.
Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit or FCC Unit - A refinery unit that uses fluidized catalyst at high temperatures to crack large hydrocarbon molecules into smaller, higher-valued molecules (LPG, gasoline, LCO, etc.).
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Gulf Coast 2-1-1 crack spread - A crack spread expressed in dollars per barrel, reflecting the approximate gross margin resulting from processing, or "cracking", one barrel of crude oil into one-half barrel of gasoline and one-half barrel of high sulfur diesel. The 2-1-1 crack spread is a general industry standard utilized by our Krotz Springs refinery.
Gulf Coast 3-2-1 crack spread - A crack spread, expressed in dollars per barrel, reflecting the approximate gross margin resulting from processing, or "cracking", one barrel of crude oil into two-thirds barrel of gasoline and one-third barrel of ultra-low sulfur diesel. The 3-2-1 crack spread is a general industry standard utilized by our Big Spring refinery.
Gulf Coast 5-3-2 crack spread - A crack spread, expressed in dollars per barrel, reflecting the approximate gross margin resulting from processing, or "cracking", one barrel of crude oil into three-fifths barrel of gasoline and two-fifths barrel of ultra-low sulfur diesel. The 5-3-2 crack spread is a general industry standard utilized by our Tyler and El Dorado refineries.
Gulf Coast Pipeline CBOB - A grade of gasoline blendstock that must be blended with 10% biofuels in order to be marketed as Regular Unleaded at retail locations.
Gulf Coast Pipeline No. 2 Heating Oil - A petroleum distillate that can be used as either a diesel fuel or a fuel oil. This is the standard by which other Gulf Coast distillate products (such as ultra-low sulfur diesel) are priced.
Gulf Coast Region - Commonly referred to as PADD III, includes the states of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and New Mexico.
HLS - Heavy Louisiana Sweet crude oil; typical API gravity of 33° and sulfur content of 0.35%.
HSD - High sulfur diesel, No. 2 diesel fuel that has a sulfur level above 500 ppm.
Jobbers - Retail stations owned by third parties that sell products purchased from or through us.
Light/Medium/Heavy Crude Oil - Terms used to describe the relative densities of crude oil, normally represented by their API gravities. Light crude oils (those having relatively high API gravities) may be refined into a greater number of valuable products and are typically more expensive than a heavier crude oil.
LLS - Louisiana Light Sweet crude oil; typical API gravity of 38° and sulfur content of 0.34%.
LPG - Liquefied petroleum gas.
Mid-Continent Region - Commonly referred to as PADD II, includes the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Midland - Midland, Texas.
Midland Basin - A large sedimentary basin in West Texas.
MBbl/d -Thousand barrels per day
MMBTU - One Million British Thermal Units.
MSCF/d - Abbreviation for a thousand standard cubic feet per day, a common measure for volume of natural gas.
MMcf/d - Abbreviation for a million cubic feet per day common measure for volume of natural gas.
Naphtha - A hydrocarbon fraction that is used as a gasoline blending component, a feedstock for reforming and as a petrochemical feedstock.
NGL - Natural gas liquids.
OSHA - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Permian Basin - A large sedimentary basin that includes the Midland and Delaware Basins primarily in West Texas and New Mexico.
Petroleum Administration for Defense District (PADD) - Any of five regions in the United States as set forth by the Department of Energy and used throughout the oil industry for geographic reference. Our refineries operate in PADD III, commonly referred to as the Gulf Coast Region.
Petroleum Coke - A coal-like substance produced as a byproduct during the Delayed Coking refining process.
Per barrel of sales - C alculated by dividing the applicable income statement line item (operating margin or operating expenses) by the total barrels sold during the period.
PPB - Parts per billion.
PPM - Parts per million.
RCRA - Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
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Refining margin, refined product margin - Refining margin or refined product margin is measured as gross margin (which we define as sales minus cost of sales) adjusted for operating expenses and depreciation and amortization included in cost of sales and is used as a metric to assess a refinery's product margins against market crack spread trends.
Renewable Fuels Standard 2 (RFS-2) - An EPA regulation promulgated pursuant to the EISA, which requires most refineries to blend increasing amounts of renewable fuels (including biodiesel and ethanol) with refined products.
Renewable Identification Number (RIN) - A renewable fuel credit used to satisfy requirements for blending renewable fuels under RFS-2.
Roofing flux - An asphalt-like product used to make roofing shingles for the housing industry.
Sour Gas - Natural gas containing more than four parts per million of hydrogen sulfide.
Sweet/Sour crude oil - Terms used to describe the relative sulfur content of crude oil. Sweet crude oil is relatively low in sulfur content; sour crude oil is relatively high in sulfur content. Sweet crude oil requires less processing to remove sulfur and is typically more expensive than sour crude oil.
Throughput - The quantity of crude oil and feedstocks processed through a refinery or a refinery unit.
Turnaround - A periodic shutdown of refinery process units to perform routine maintenance to restore the operation of the equipment to its former level of performance. Turnaround activities normally include cleaning, inspection, refurbishment, and repair and replacement of equipment and piping. It is also common to use turnaround periods to change catalysts or to implement capital project improvements.
Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD) - Diesel fuel produced with a lower sulfur content (15 ppm) to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions. ULSD is the only diesel fuel that may be used for on-road and most other applications in the U.S.
Vacuum Distillation Unit - A refinery unit that distills heavy crude oils under deep vacuum to allow their separation without coking.
West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil (WTI) - A light, sweet crude oil characterized by an API gravity between 38° and 44° and a sulfur content of less than 0.4 wt% that is used as a benchmark for other crude oil.
West Texas Sour Crude Oil (WTS) - A sour crude oil, characterized by an API gravity between 30° and 33° and a sulfur content of approximately 1.28 wt% that is used as a benchmark for other sour crude.
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Summary of Risk Factors
Summary of Risk Factors
An investment in us involves a high degree of risk. Numerous factors, including those discussed below in Item 1A. Risk Factors, may limit our ability to successfully execute our business and growth strategies. You should carefully consider all of the information set forth and incorporated by reference in this Annual Report in deciding whether to invest in the Company. Among these important risks are the following:
• Developments which impact the global oil markets have had, may continue to have, or may have an adverse impact on our business, our future results of operations and our overall financial performance.
• A regional or global disease outbreak could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operation and liquidity.
• A substantial or extended decline in refining margins would reduce our operating results and cash flows and could materially and adversely impact our future rate of growth and the carrying value of our assets.
• We operate in a highly regulated industry and increased costs of compliance with, or liability for violation of, existing or future laws, regulations, executive orders and other requirements could significantly increase our costs of doing business, thereby adversely affecting our profitability.
• The availability and cost of RINs and other required credits could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.
• Increased supply of and demand for alternative transportation fuels, increased fuel economy standards and increased use of alternative means of transportation could lead to a decrease in transportation fuel prices and/or a reduction in demand for petroleum-based transportation fuels.
• Competition in the refining and logistics industry is intense, and an increase in competition in the markets in which we sell our products could adversely affect our earnings and profitability .
• Decreases in commodity prices may lessen our borrowing capacities, increase collateral requirements for derivative instruments or cause a write-down of inventory.
• Acts of terror or sabotage, threats of war, armed conflict, or war may have an adverse impact on our business, our future results of operations and our overall financial performance.
• Legislative and regulatory measures to address climate change and greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions could increase our operating costs or decrease demand for our refined products.
• Increasing attention to environmental, social and governance matters may impact our business, financial results, cost of capital, or stock price .
• We are particularly vulnerable to disruptions to our refining operations because our refining operations are concentrated in four facilities.
• The physical effects of climate change and severe weather present risks to our operations.
• Our operations are subject to business interruptions and casualty losses. Failure to manage risks associated with business interruptions and casualty losses could adversely impact our operations, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
• There are certain environmental hazards and risks inherent in our operations that could adversely affect those operations and our financial results.
• The costs, scope, timelines and benefits of our refining projects may deviate significantly from our original plans and estimates.
• We depend upon our logistics segment for a substantial portion of the crude oil supply and refined product distribution networks that serve our Tyler, Big Spring and El Dorado refineries.
• Interruptions or limitations in the supply and delivery of crude oil, or the supply and distribution of refined products, may negatively affect our refining operations and inhibit the growth of our refining operations.
• We are subject to risks associated with significant investments in the Permian Basin.
• We have made investments in joint ventures which subject us to additional risks, over which we do not have full control and which have unique risks.
• General economic and political conditions may adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition.
• We may be adversely affected by the effects of inflation.
• Disruption of our supply chain could adversely impact our ability to refine, manufacture, transport and sell our products .
• Our business could be adversely impacted as a result of our failure to retain or attract key talent.
• We have capital needs to finance our crude oil and refined products inventory for which our internally generated cash flows or other sources of liquidity may not be adequate .
• Our insurance policies historically do not cover all losses, costs or liabilities that we may experience, and insurance companies that currently insure companies in the energy industry may cease to do so or substantially increase premiums.
• Our ongoing study of strategic options to unlock and enhance stockholder value poses additional risks to our business.
• We may not be able to successfully execute our strategy of growth through acquisitions.
• Acquisitions involve risks that could cause our actual growth or operating results to differ adversely compared with our expectations .
• We may not be successful in our cost sharing agreement with the DOE's Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations.
• Our future results will suffer if we do not effectively manage our expanded operations.
• We may incur significant costs and liabilities with respect to investigation and remediation of environmental conditions at our facilities.
• We could incur substantial costs or disruptions in our business if we cannot obtain or maintain necessary permits and authorizations or otherwise comply with health, safety, environmental and other laws and regulations.
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Summary of Risk Factors
• Our Tyler refinery primarily distributes refined petroleum products via truck or rail. We do not have the ability to distribute these products into markets outside our local market via pipeline.
• An increase in competition, and/or reduction in demand in the markets in which we purchase feedstocks and sell our refined products, could increase our costs and/or lower prices and adversely affect our sales and profitability .
• Compliance with and changes in tax laws could adversely affect our performance.
• Adverse weather conditions or other unforeseen developments could damage our facilities, reduce demand for our products and services and impair our ability to produce and deliver refined petroleum products.
• Our operating results are seasonal and generally lower in the first and fourth quarters of the year for our refining and logistics segments. We depend on favorable weather conditions in the spring and summer months.
• A substantial portion of the workforce at our refineries is unionized, and we may face labor disruptions that would interfere with our operations.
• We rely on information technology in our operations, and any material failure, inadequacy, interruption, cyber-attack or security failure of that technology could harm our business.
• If we lose any of our key personnel, our ability to manage our business and continue our growth could be negatively impacted.
• If we are, or become, a United States ("U.S.") real property holding corporation, special tax rules may apply to a sale, exchange or other disposition of common stock, and non-U.S. holders may be less inclined to invest in our stock, as they may be subject to U.S. federal income tax in certain situations.
• Our business requires us to make significant capital expenditures and to maintain and improve our refineries and logistics assets.
• Our business is subject to complex and evolving laws, regulations and security standards regarding privacy, cybersecurity and data protection (“data protection laws”). Many of these data protection laws are subject to change and uncertain interpretation, and could result in claims, changes to our business practices, monetary penalties, increased cost of operations or other harm to our business.
• If our cost efficiency measures are not successful, we may become less competitive
• The price of our common stock may fluctuate significantly, and you could lose all or part of your investment.
• Stockholder activism may negatively impact the price of our common stock.
• Future sales of shares of our common stock could depress the price of our common stock, and could result in substantial dilution to our stockholders.
• We depend upon our subsidiaries for cash to meet our obligations and pay any dividends.
• We may be unable to pay future regular dividends in the anticipated amounts and frequency set forth herein.
• Provisions of Delaware law and our organizational documents may discourage takeovers and business combinations that our stockholders may consider in their best interests, which could negatively affect our stock price.
• Changes in our credit profile could affect our relationships with our suppliers, which could have a material adverse effect on our liquidity and our ability to operate our refineries at full capacity.
• Our commodity and interest rate derivative activity may limit potential gains, increase potential losses, result in earnings volatility and involve other risks.
• We are exposed to certain counterparty risks which may adversely impact our results of operations.
• From time to time, our cash and credit needs may exceed our internally generated cash flow and available credit, and our business could be materially and adversely affected if we are not able to obtain the necessary cash or credit from financing sources.
• Our debt levels may limit our flexibility in obtaining additional financing and in pursuing other business opportunities.
• Our debt agreements contain operating and financial restrictions that might constrain our business and financing activities.
• Fluctuations in interest rates could materially affect our financial results.
• We may refinance a significant amount of indebtedness and otherwise require additional financing; we cannot guarantee that we will be able to obtain the necessary funds on favorable terms or at all.
• We recorded goodwill and other intangible assets that could become impaired and result in material non-cash charges to our results of operations in the future.
• An impairment of our long-lived assets or goodwill could negatively impact our results of operations and financial condition.
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Business and Properties
PART I
ITEMS 1 and 2. BUSINESS and PROPERTIES
Company Overview
We are an integrated downstream energy business focused on petroleum refining ("Refining" or our "refining segment") and the transportation, storage and wholesale distribution of crude oil, intermediate and refined products ("Logistics" or our "logistics segment"). Delek US Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation formed in 2016 (a successor to the original Delek US Holdings, Inc. which was a Delaware corporation originally formed in 2001), operates through its consolidated subsidiaries, which include Delek US Energy, Inc. (and its subsidiaries) ("Delek Energy") and Alon (and its subsidiaries).
The following map outlines the geography of our integrated downstream energy structure as of December 31, 2025:
Refining Logistics
302,000 bpd total capacity:
9 light product distribution terminals
Tyler, TX Approximately 1,326 miles of crude oil and refined products pipeline (2)
El Dorado, AR Approximately 11.3 million barrels of active shell capacity
Big Spring, TX Approximately 310,000 bpd of water disposal capacity
Krotz Springs, LA Approximately 195 MMcf/d of gas processing capacity
WTI primary crude oil supply - 228,000 bpd
Crude oil pipeline joint ventures:
Biodiesel facilities with 40 million gallons total Red River Pipeline Company LLC
annual capacity (1) :
Caddo Pipeline LLC
Crossett, AR Andeavor Logistics RIO Pipeline LLC
Cleburne, TX Wink to Webster Holdings, LLC
New Albany, MS West Texas wholesale:
Sale of refined products through terminals
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Business and Properties
(1) During the second quarter of 2024, we made the decision to idle these biodiesel facilities, while exploring viable and sustainable alternatives. Those alternatives could include restarting if market conditions improve, marketing for sale or permanently closing any of the facilities. See Note 20 of our consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
(2) Excludes approximately 462 miles of gathering system pipeline which are decommissioned.
Our Vision
It is vitally important that our strategic objectives, especially in view of the evolutionary direction of our macroeconomic and geopolitical environment, involves a process of continuous evaluation of our business model in terms of cost structure, as well as long-term economic and operational sustainability. We are operating in a mature industry (the production, logistics and marketing of hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon-based refined products), with increasingly difficult operational and regulatory challenges and, likewise, pressure on operating costs/gross margins as well as the availability and cost of capital. More consolidation in our industry is expected from increased cost pressures due in part to the regulatory environment continuing to move towards reducing carbon emissions and transitioning to renewable energy in the long term; however, we believe we are uniquely positioned as a leader of operating and excelling in niche markets and could continue capitalizing on and growing our integrated business model. In order to compete under historic environmental and regulatory changes, companies in our industry will need to be adaptive, forward-thinking and strategic in their approach to long-term sustainability.
The emphasis on environmental responsibility and long-term economic and environmental sustainability has increased. Demand for additional transparency continues to evolve. As we evaluate our current sustainability and ESG positioning in the market, we also seek to integrate a broader sustainability view to all of our activities, both operational and strategic. We have developed overarching key objectives that guide us when we formulate our strategic plans.
Core Values
Our culture is guided by our core values. These core values are integrated into daily operations, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and alignment with our strategic goals.
Key Objectives
Certain fundamental principles are foundational to our long-term strategy and direct us as we develop our strategic objectives. With that in mind, we have identified the following overarching key objectives:
I. Operational Excellence
II. Financial Strength and Flexibility
III. Strategic Initiatives
See further discussion in the 'Executive Summary: Strategic Objectives' Section of Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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Business and Properties
Here are some of our most significant transactions in recent years, all of which continue to have a lasting and important impact on our strategic positioning and long-term value proposition:
Date Acquired Company/Assets Acquired From/ Sold To Approximate Purchase /Sales Price
July 2017 Purchased the remaining approximately 53% ownership in Alon that Delek did not already own, in an all-stock transaction, resulting in the addition of the Krotz Springs refinery and the majority ownership in the Big Spring refinery, as well as the addition of our previous retail segment. Shareholders of Alon USA Energy, Inc. $530.7 million
February 2018 Purchased the remaining 18.4% ownership in Alon USA Partners, LP, in an all-equity transaction, representing the remaining interest in the Big Spring refinery operations. LP unitholders of Alon USA Partners, LP $184.7 million
May 2019 Acquired a 33% membership interest in Red River Pipeline Joint Venture, which continues to be highly accretive to our Logistics segment and one of the main drivers of our joint venture investment growth. Plains Pipeline, L.P. $124.7 million
July 2019 Acquired a 15% membership interest in Wink to Webster Pipeline ("WWP") Joint Venture (which was subsequently converted to an indirect interest via the formation of and contribution to the WWP Project Financing Joint Venture); the WWP joint venture ramped up operations in 2022 with the completion of long-haul pipeline segments and brings committed volumes that are expected to position the joint venture for appreciable returns.
Wink to Webster Pipeline LLC $76.3 million
June 2022 Acquired 100% of the limited liability company interests in 3 Bear Delaware Holding – NM, LLC (“3 Bear”) (subsequently renamed to Delek Delaware Gathering ("Delaware Gathering")) (the "Delaware Gathering Acquisition") from 3 Bear Energy – New Mexico LLC, related to their crude oil and natural gas gathering, processing and transportation businesses, as well as water disposal and recycling operations, located in the Delaware Basin of New Mexico, which enhanced our third party revenues, further diversified our customer and product mix and, expanded our footprint into the Delaware basin. 3 Bear Energy – New Mexico LLC $628.3 million
August 2024 Acquired an additional 0.6% indirect investment in WWP for $18.6 million, bringing our total indirect ownership in the pipeline joint venture to 15.6%.
Wink to Webster Pipeline LLC $18.6 million
September 2024 Sold 100% of the equity interests in four of Delek US' wholly-owned subsidiaries that owned and operated 249 retail fuel and convenience stores (the "Retail Stores") under the Delek US Retail brand to a subsidiary of Fomento Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. (“FEMSA”).
FEMSA $390.2 million
September 2024 Acquired 100% of the limited liability company interests in H2O Midstream Intermediate, LLC, H2O Midstream Permian LLC, and H2O Midstream LLC, which included the water disposal and recycling operations in the Midland Basin in Texas. H2O Midstream Holdings, LLC $229.7 million
January 2025 Acquired 100% of the limited liability company interests in Gravity Water Intermediate Holdings LLC from Gravity Water Holdings LLC which included water disposal and recycling operations in the Permian Basin and the Bakken.
Gravity Water Holdings LLC $209.3 million and ~2.175 million Delek Logistics common limited partner units
See further discussion regarding our specific 'Strategic Overview' in the 'Executive Summary' section as well as relevant discussion in our 'Liquidity and Capital Resources' section located in Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Additionally, see further discussion in Note 3 and Note 7, respectively, of our consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Information About Our Segments
Prior to July 2024, we aggregated our operating segments into three reportable segments: refining, logistics, and retail. However, in July 2024, we entered into a definitive equity purchase agreement (the "Retail Purchase Agreement") with a subsidiary of FEMSA. Under the terms of the Retail Purchase Agreement, we sold 100% of the equity interests in four of Delek’s wholly-owned subsidiaries that own and operate the Retail Stores under the Delek US Retail brand ("Retail Transaction"). On September 30, 2024, the Retail Transaction closed. As a result of the Retail Transaction, we met the requirements of Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 205-20, Presentation of Financial Statements - Discontinued Operations ("ASC 205-20") and ASC 360, Property, Plant and Equipment ("ASC 360"), to report the results of the Retail Stores as discontinued operations and to classify the Retail Stores as a group of discontinued operations assets. Delek now operates in two reportable operating segments: the refining segment and the logistics segment, which are discussed below. Additional segment and financial information is contained in our segment results included in Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, and in Note 4, Segment Data, of our consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Refining Segment
Overview
We own and operate four independent refineries located in Tyler, Texas (the "Tyler refinery"), El Dorado, Arkansas (the "El Dorado refinery"), Big Spring, Texas (the "Big Spring refinery") and Krotz Springs, Louisiana (the "Krotz Springs refinery"), currently representing a combined 302,000 bpd of crude throughput capacity. Our refining system produces a variety of petroleum-based products used in transportation and industrial markets, which are sold to a wide range of customers located principally in inland, domestic markets and which comply with current EPA clean fuels standards. All four of these refineries are located in the Gulf Coast Region (PADD III), which is one of the five PADD regional zones established by the U.S. Department of Energy where refined products are produced and sold. Refined product prices generally differ among each of the five PADDs.
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Our refining segment also includes three biodiesel facilities we own that are engaged in the production of biodiesel fuels and related activities, located in Crossett, Arkansas, Cleburne, Texas and New Albany, Mississippi. Our biodiesel facilities have 40 million gallons of annual capacity. During the second quarter of 2024, we made the decision to idle these biodiesel facilities, while exploring viable and sustainable alternatives. See Note 20 of our consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. In addition, the refining segment includes our wholesale crude operations and our 50% interest in a joint venture that owns asphalt terminals located in the southwestern region of the U.S.
Refining System Feedstock Purchases
We purchase more crude oil than our refineries process, generally through a combination of long-term acreage dedication agreements and short-term crude oil purchase agreements. This provides us with the opportunity to optimize the supply cost to the refineries while also maximizing the value of the volumes purchased directly from oil producers. The majority of the crude oil we purchase is sourced from inland domestic sources, primarily in areas of Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, although we can also purchase crude delivered via rail from other regions, including Oklahoma and Canada. Existing agreements with third-party pipelines and Delek Logistics allow us to deliver approximately 200,000 bpd of crude oil from West Texas (principally Midland) directly to our refineries. Typically, approximately 228,000 bpd of the crude oil we deliver to our four operating refineries is priced as a differential to the price of WTI crude oil. In most cases, the differential is established in the month prior to the month in which the crude oil is delivered to the refineries for processing.
Refining System Production Slate
Our refining system processes a combination of light sweet and medium sour crude oil, which, when refined, results in a product mix consisting principally of higher-value transportation fuels such as gasoline, distillate and jet fuel. A lesser portion of our overall production consists of residual products, including paving asphalt, roofing flux and other products with industrial applications.
Refined Product Sales and Distribution
Our refineries sell products on a wholesale and branded basis to inter-company and third-party customers located in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois, California and the Ohio River Valley, including Gulf Coast markets and areas along the Enterprise Pipeline System and the Colonial Pipeline System, through terminals and exchanges.
Refining Segment Seasonality
Demand for gasoline and asphalt products is generally higher during the summer months than during the winter months due to seasonal increases in motor vehicle traffic and road and home construction. Varying vapor pressure requirements between the summer and winter months also tighten summer gasoline supply. As a result, the operating results of our refining segment are generally lower for the first and fourth quarters of the calendar year.
Refining Segment Competition
The refining industry is highly competitive and includes fully integrated national and multinational oil companies engaged in many segments of the petroleum business, including exploration, production, transportation, refining, marketing and retail fuel and convenience stores, along with independent refiners. Our principal competitors are petroleum refiners in the Mid-Continent and Gulf Coast Regions, in addition to wholesale distributors operating in these markets.
The principal competitive factors affecting our refinery operations are crude oil and other feedstock costs, the differential in price between various grades of crude oil, refinery product margins, refinery reliability and efficiency, refinery product mix, and distribution and transportation costs.
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Tyler Refinery
Our Tyler refinery has a nameplate crude throughput capacity of 75,000 bpd, and is designed to process mainly light, sweet crude oil, which is typically a higher quality of crude than heavier sour crude. Its property consists of approximately 600 contiguous acres of land that we own in Tyler, Texas and adjacent areas, of which the main plant and associated tank farms adjacent to the refinery sit on approximately 100 acres. Additionally, it has access to crude oil pipeline systems that allow us access to East Texas, West Texas and, to a limited extent, the Gulf Coast and foreign crude oil. Most of the crude supplied to the Tyler refinery is delivered by third-party pipelines and through pipelines owned by our logistics segment.
Major processes at our Tyler refinery include crude distillation, vacuum distillation, naphtha reforming, naphtha and diesel hydrotreating, fluid catalytic cracking, alkylation, and delayed coking. The Tyler refinery has a Complexity Index of 9.4.
The chart below sets forth information concerning the throughput at the Tyler refinery for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023:
The Tyler refinery primarily produces two grades of gasoline (E10 premium 93 and E10 regular 87), as well as aviation gasoline, and also offers both E-10 and biodiesel blended products. Diesel and jet fuel products produced at the Tyler refinery include military specification jet fuel, commercial jet fuel and ultra-low sulfur diesel. In addition to higher-value gasoline and distillate fuels, the Tyler refinery produces small quantities of propane, refinery grade propylene and butanes, petroleum coke, slurry oil, sulfur and other blendstocks. The Tyler refinery produces both low-sulfur gasoline and ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel, both on-road and off-road, pursuant to the current EPA clean fuels standards.
The chart below sets forth information concerning the Tyler refinery's production slate for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023:
The Tyler refinery is currently the only major distributor of a full range of refined petroleum products within a radius of approximately 100 miles of its location. The vast majority of our transportation fuels and other products produced at the Tyler refinery supply the local market in the East Texas area and are sold directly from a refined products terminal owned by Delek Logistics and located at the refinery. We believe this allows our customers to benefit from lower transportation costs compared to alternative sources. Our customers include major oil companies, independent refiners and marketers, jobbers, distributors in the U.S. and Mexico, utility and transportation companies, the U.S. government and independent retail fuel operators.
Taking into account the Tyler refinery's crude and refined product slate, as well as the refinery's location near the Gulf Coast Region, we apply the Gulf Coast 5-3-2 crack spread to calculate the approximate refined product margin resulting from processing one barrel of crude oil into three-fifths barrel of gasoline and two-fifths barrel of low sulfur diesel.
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El Dorado Refinery
Our El Dorado refinery has a nameplate crude throughput capacity of 80,000 bpd, and is designed to process a wide variety of crude oil, ranging from light sweet to heavy sour. The refinery site consists of approximately 460 acres of land that we own in El Dorado, Arkansas, of which the main plant and associated tank farms adjacent to the refinery sit on approximately 335 acres, and is the largest refinery in Arkansas, representing more than 90% of state-wide refining capacity. The refinery receives crude by several delivery points, including from local sources as well as other third-party pipelines that connect directly into Delek Logistics' El Dorado Pipeline System, which runs from Magnolia, Arkansas, to the El Dorado refinery (the "El Dorado Pipeline System"), and rail at third-party terminals. We also purchase crude oil for the El Dorado refinery from inland sources in East and West Texas, as well as in south Arkansas and north Louisiana through a crude oil gathering system owned and operated by Delek Logistics (the "SALA Gathering System").
Major processes at our El Dorado refinery include crude distillation, vacuum distillation, naphtha isomerization and reforming, naphtha and diesel hydrotreating, gas oil hydrotreating, fluid catalytic cracking and alkylation. The El Dorado refinery has a Complexity Index of 10.1.
The chart below sets forth information concerning the throughput at the El Dorado refinery for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023:
The El Dorado refinery produces a wide range of refined products, including multiple grades (E-10 premium 93 and E-10 regular 87) of gasoline and ultra-low sulfur diesel fuels, jet fuel, LPG, refinery grade propylene and a variety of asphalt products, including paving grade asphalt and roofing flux. The El Dorado refinery offers both E-10 and biodiesel blended products. The El Dorado refinery produces both low-sulfur gasoline and ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel, both on-road and off-road, pursuant to the current EPA clean fuels standards as well as commercial jet fuel.
The chart below sets forth information concerning the El Dorado refinery's production slate for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023:
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Products manufactured at the El Dorado refinery supply a combination of pipeline bulk sales and wholesale rack sales sold to wholesalers and retailers through spot sales, commercial sales contracts and exchange agreements in markets in Arkansas, Memphis, Tennessee and north into the Ohio River Valley region as well as in Mexico. The El Dorado refinery connection via the logistics segment to the Enterprise Pipeline System is a key means of product distribution for the refinery, because it provides access to third-party terminals in multiple Mid-Continent markets located adjacent to the system, including Shreveport, Louisiana, North Little Rock, Arkansas, Memphis, Tennessee, Cape Girardeau, Missouri and Princeton, Indiana. The El Dorado refinery also supplies products to these markets through product exchanges on the Colonial Pipeline.
The crude oil and product slate flexibility of the El Dorado refinery allows us to take advantage of changes in the crude oil and product markets; therefore, we anticipate that the quantities and varieties of crude oil processed and products manufactured at the El Dorado refinery will continue to vary. While there is variability in the crude slate and the product output at the El Dorado refinery, we compare our per barrel refined product margin to the Gulf Coast 5-3-2 crack spread because we believe it to be the most closely aligned benchmark.
Big Spring Refinery
Our Big Spring refinery has a nameplate crude throughput capacity of 73,000 bpd and is located on 1,306 acres of land that we own in the Permian Basin in West Texas. The main plant and associated tank farms adjacent to the refinery sit on approximately 330 acres. It is the closest refinery to Midland, which allows us to efficiently source WTS and WTI Midland crude. Additionally, the Big Spring refinery has the ability to source locally-trucked crude as well as crude locally gathered from our gathering system within the Logistics segment, which enables us to better control quality and eliminate the cost of transporting the crude supply from Midland.
The Big Spring refinery is designed to process a variety of crude, ranging from light sweet to medium sour, with the flexibility to convert its production to one or the other based on market pricing conditions. Our Big Spring refinery receives WTS and WTI crude by truck from local gathering systems, our own gathering system, and regional common carrier pipelines. Other feedstocks, including butane, isobutane and asphalt blending components, are delivered by truck and railcar. A majority of the natural gas we use to run the refinery is delivered by a pipeline in which we own a majority interest.
Major processes at our Big Spring refinery include crude distillation, vacuum distillation, naphtha reforming, naphtha and diesel hydrotreating, aromatic extraction, propane de-asphalting, fluid catalytic cracking, and alkylation. The Big Spring refinery has a Complexity Index of 11.6.
The chart below sets forth throughput composition at the Big Spring refinery for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023:
The Big Spring refinery primarily produces two grades of gasoline (premium CBOB and CBOB). Diesel and jet fuel products produced at the Big Spring refinery include military specification jet fuel, commercial jet fuel and ultra-low sulfur diesel. We also produce propane, propylene, certain aromatics, specialty solvents and benzene for use as petrochemical feedstocks, and asphalt along with other by-products such as sulfur and carbon black oil. The Big Spring refinery produces both low-sulfur gasoline and ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel, both on-road and off-road, pursuant to current EPA clean fuels standards, and certain boutique fuels supplied to the El Paso, Texas, and Phoenix, Arizona, markets.
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The chart below sets forth information concerning the Big Spring refinery's production slate for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023:
Our Big Spring refinery sells products in both the wholesale rack and bulk markets. We sell transportation fuel production in excess of branded and unbranded marketing needs through bulk sales and exchange channels entered into with various oil companies and trading companies which are transported through a product pipeline network or truck deliveries, depending on location, and through terminals located in Texas (Abilene, Wichita Falls, El Paso), Arizona (Tucson, Phoenix), and New Mexico (Albuquerque, Moriarty).
For our Big Spring refinery, we compare our per barrel refined product margin to the Gulf Coast 3-2-1 crack spread, which is the approximate refined product margin resulting from processing one barrel of crude oil into two-thirds barrel of gasoline and one-third barrel of ultra-low sulfur diesel. Our Big Spring refinery is capable of processing substantial volumes of both sour crude oil or sweet crude oil, which we optimize based on price differentials. We measure the cost advantage of refining sour crude oil by calculating the difference between the price of WTI Cushing crude oil and the price of WTS, a medium, sour crude oil, taking into account differences in production yield. We refer to this differential as the WTI Cushing/WTS, or sweet/sour, spread. A widening of the sweet/sour spread can favorably influence the operating margin for our Big Spring refinery. The WTI Cushing less WTI Midland spread represents the differential between the average per barrel price of WTI Cushing crude oil and the average per barrel price of WTI Midland crude oil.
Krotz Springs Refinery
Our Krotz Springs refinery has a nameplate crude throughput capacity of 74,000 bpd, and is located on 381 acres of land that we own on the Atchafalaya River in central Louisiana. The main plant and associated tank farms adjacent to the refinery sit on approximately 250 acres. This location provides access to crude from barge, pipeline, railcar and truck. This combination of logistics assets provides us with diversified access to locally-sourced, domestic and foreign crude.
The Krotz Springs refinery is designed mainly to process light sweet crude oil. We are capable of receiving WTI Midland, LLS, HLS and foreign crude from the EMPCo Northline System (the "Northline System") and the Anchorage Pipeline. The Northline System delivers LLS, HLS and foreign crude oil from the St. James, Louisiana, crude oil terminalling complex. The Anchorage Pipeline connects the Krotz Springs refinery to the Baton Rouge, Louisiana area. Additionally, the Krotz Springs refinery has the ability to receive crude oil sourced from West Texas. WTI crude oil is transported through the Energy Transfer Amdel pipeline to the Nederland terminal located near the Gulf Coast and from there is transported to the Krotz Springs refinery by barge via the Intracoastal Canal and the Atchafalaya River. The Krotz Springs refinery also receives approximately 20% of its crude by barge and truck from inland Louisiana and Mississippi and other locations.
Major processes at the Krotz Springs refinery include crude distillation, vacuum distillation, naphtha hydrotreating, naphtha isomerization and reforming, and gas oil/residual catalytic cracking to minimize low quality black oil production and to produce higher light product yields. The Krotz Springs refinery has a Complexity Index of 8.5. Additionally, in April 2019, the Krotz Springs refinery completed construction of an alkylation unit with approximately 6,000-bpd capacity that is designed to combine isobutane and butylene into alkylate and enable multiple grades of gasoline to be produced, including premium octane gasoline.
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The chart below sets forth information concerning the throughput at the Krotz Springs refinery for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023:
The Krotz Springs refinery produces CBOB 84 grade gasoline as well as HSD, light cycle oil, jet fuel, petrochemical feedstocks, LPG, slurry oil and alkylate. The Krotz Springs refinery produces low-sulfur gasoline, pursuant to the current EPA clean fuels standards.
The chart below sets forth information concerning the Krotz Springs refinery's production slate for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023:
The Krotz Springs refinery markets transportation fuel substantially through pipeline and barge bulk sales, exchange channels and wholesale rack sales. These bulk sales, exchange arrangements and wholesale rack sales are entered into with various oil companies and trading companies and are transported to markets on the Mississippi River and the Atchafalaya River as well as to terminals along the Colonial Pipeline system in the southeastern United States.
For our Krotz Springs refinery, we compare our per barrel refined product margin to the Gulf Coast 2-1-1 high sulfur diesel crack spread, which is the approximate refined product margin calculated assuming that one barrel of LLS crude oil is converted into one-half barrel of Gulf Coast conventional gasoline and one-half barrel of Gulf Coast HSD. The Krotz Springs refinery has the capability to process substantial volumes of sweet crude oil to produce a high percentage of refined light products.
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Logistics Segment
Overview
Our logistics segment consists of Delek Logistics, a publicly-traded master limited partnership, and its subsidiaries. Our consolidated financial statements include its consolidated financial results. As of December 31, 2025, we owned a 63.3% limited partner interest in Delek Logistics, consisting of 33,868,203 common limited partner units, and the non-economic general partner interest. Delek Logistics is a variable interest entity as defined under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"). Intercompany transactions with Delek Logistics and its subsidiaries are eliminated in our consolidated financial statements.
Our logistics segment generates revenue by charging fees for gathering, transporting, offloading and storing crude oil and natural gas; for storing intermediate products and feedstocks; for marketing, distributing, transporting and storing refined products; and disposing and recycling water. A portion of Logistics' existing assets are both integral to and dependent on the successful operation of Refining's assets, as our logistics segment gathers, transports and stores crude oil, and markets, distributes, transports and stores refined products in select regions of the southeastern United States and East Texas primarily in support of the Tyler and El Dorado refineries, and in Central and West Texas and New Mexico, primarily in support of the Big Spring refinery. In addition, the logistics segment also provides crude oil, intermediate and refined products transportation services for, terminalling and marketing services to, and disposing and recycling water to, third parties primarily in Texas, the Delaware Basin in New Mexico, North Dakota, Tennessee and Arkansas. Our Midland Water Gathering Assets support our water and recycling operations primarily in the Midland Basin in Texas and consist of assets acquired in H2O Midstream and Gravity Midstream acquisitions. In the Delaware Basin, we have been expanding our natural gas processing capabilities by constructing a new natural gas processing plant and adding AGI and sour gas processing capabilities. All intercompany transactions are eliminated in consolidation.
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The logistics segment network includes the following locations/properties:
Terminal Locations Pipelines (owned or leased) Storage Tanks Locations
Tennessee
Louisiana and Arkansas
Tennessee
Nashville SALA Gathering System
Nashville
Memphis El Dorado Pipeline System
Memphis
Texas Magnolia Pipeline System
Arkansas
Tyler Texas
North Little Rock
Big Sandy Paline Pipeline System
El Dorado
San Angelo McMurrey Pipeline System
Texas
Abilene Nettleton Pipeline
Tyler
Mount Pleasant Tyler-Big Sandy Product Pipeline
Big Sandy
Arkansas Big Spring Pipeline and Crude Oil Gathering System
Big Spring
North Little Rock Midland Gathering System San Angelo
El Dorado Midland Water Gathering System Abilene
New Mexico
Mount Pleasant
Delaware Gathering System
North Dakota
Water Gathering System
All of the above properties/assets are located on real property owned by Delek. Additionally, all of the pipeline systems set forth above run across fee owned land, leased land, easements and rights-of-way. The logistics segment also owns a fleet of trucks and trailers used to transport crude oil, asphalt and other hydrocarbon products.
Logistics Segment - Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling
The logistics segment's wholesale marketing and terminalling business provides wholesale marketing and terminalling services to the refining segment and to independent third parties from whom it receives fees for marketing, transporting, storing and terminalling refined products and to whom it wholesale markets refined products. It generates revenue by (i) providing marketing services for the refined products output of the Tyler refinery, (ii) engaging in wholesale activity in West Texas at owned terminals in Abilene and San Angelo, Texas, as well as at terminals owned by third parties, whereby it purchases light products for sale and exchange to third parties and (iii) providing terminalling services to independent third parties and the refining segment. Three terminals, located in El Dorado, Arkansas, Memphis, Tennessee and North Little Rock, Arkansas, throughput refined product produced at the El Dorado refinery. Three terminals, located in Tyler, Big Sandy and Mount Pleasant Texas, throughput refined product produced at the Tyler refinery.
Logistics Segment - Gathering and Processing
The logistics segment's gathering and processing business owns or leases capacity on approximately 390 miles of operable crude oil transportation pipelines, approximately 169 miles of refined product pipelines, an approximately 767-mile crude oil gathering system and associated crude oil storage tanks with an aggregate of approximately 10.0 million barrels of active shell capacity. In addition, these assets include 195 MMcf/d of cryogenic natural gas processing capacity and 310 MBbl/d of water disposal capacity in the Delaware basin. These assets are primarily divided into the following operating systems:
• the El Dorado Pipeline System, which transports crude oil to and refined products from the El Dorado refinery;
• the SALA Gathering System, which gathers and transports crude oil production in southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana, primarily for the El Dorado refinery;
• the Paline Pipeline System, which primarily transports crude oil from Longview, Texas to third-party facilities in Beaumont or Nederland, Texas ("the Paline Pipeline System");
• the East Texas Crude Logistics System, which currently transports a portion of the crude oil delivered to the Tyler refinery (the "East Texas Crude Logistics System");
• the Tyler-Big Sandy Product Pipeline, which is a pipeline between the Tyler refinery and the Big Sandy Terminal;
• the Memphis Pipeline;
• the Big Spring Pipeline;
• Midland Gathering Assets, which is a crude oil gathering system located in Howard, Borden and Martin Counties in Texas (the "Midland Gathering Assets", previously referred to as the Permian Gathering Assets);
• Delaware Gathering Assets, which includes a crude oil gathering system located in Lea County New Mexico, 133 miles of gas gathering pipelines with 150 MMcf/d of pipeline capacity, and 205 miles of water gathering pipelines with 220 MBbl/d of pipeline capacity; and
• The Midland Water Gathering System (the "Midland Water Gathering System") consists of water disposal and recycling operations in the Midland Basin. These assets include 326,450 dedicated acres, approximately 567 miles of pipeline, 1,015 MBbl/d operational capacity and approximately 1,100 MBbl/d of interconnected disposal capacity.
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Logistics Segment - Storage and Transportation
The logistics segment's storage and transportation business includes trucks and ancillary assets that provide crude oil, intermediate and refined products transportation and storage services primarily in support of the Tyler, El Dorado and Big Spring refineries, as well as to third parties. In providing these services, we typically do not take ownership of the products or crude oil that we transport or store; and, therefore, the results of our transportation segment are not directly exposed to changes in commodity prices. These assets are primarily divided into the following operating systems:
• the Tyler Tanks;
• the El Dorado Tanks;
• the North Little Rock Tanks;
• the El Dorado Rail Racks;
• the Tyler Crude Tank;
• Big Spring Truck Unloading Station; and
• the Big Spring Tanks.
In addition to these operating systems, the transportation segment owns or leases approximately 161 tractors and 306 trailers used to haul primarily crude oil and other products for related and third parties.
Logistics Segment - Joint Ventures
The logistics segment owns a portion of four joint ventures (accounted for as equity method investments) that have logistics assets, which serve third parties and the refining segment. These joint ventures are strategic investments in pipelines/pipeline systems which service various areas including the Permian Basin. These assets include the following:
JV Name Ownership Interest Description
RIO Pipeline 33% Joint venture operates a 109-mile crude oil pipeline with a capacity of 145,000 barrels bpd, that originates in north Loving County, Texas near the Texas-New Mexico border and terminates in Midland, Texas ("RIO Pipeline")
Caddo Pipeline 50% Joint venture operates an 80-mile crude oil pipeline with a capacity of 80,000 bpd that originates in Longview, Texas, with destinations in the Shreveport, Louisiana area ("Caddo Pipeline")
Red River Pipeline 33% Joint venture that operates a 350-mile crude oil pipeline with a capacity of 235,000 bpd, between Oklahoma and Texas (the "Red River Pipeline")
W2W Holdings 50% Joint Venture that owns our 15.6% indirect interest in Wink to Webster, which operates a 650-mile crude oil pipeline system from Wink, Texas to Webster, Texas along with certain pipelines from Webster, Texas to other destinations in the Texas Gulf Coast
Logistics Segment Supply Agreement
As of January 1, 2018, Delek Logistics purchased products from Delek and third parties at our Abilene and San Angelo terminals. To facilitate these purchases, Delek Logistics constructed a pipeline into our Abilene terminal to receive product from the pipeline owned by Holly Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: HEP) through which Delek shipped product that was produced at the Big Spring refinery. Delek Logistics completed construction of a connection to the Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. ("Magellan") pipeline that allows Magellan to supply our Abilene and San Angelo terminals with product transported from the Gulf Coast. Delek Logistics also has active connections to the Magellan Orion Pipeline that enable us to ship product to our terminals and to acquire product from other shippers. Products purchased from Delek are generally based on daily market prices at the time of purchase limiting exposure to fluctuating prices. Products purchased from third parties are generally based on market prices at the time of purchase requiring price hedging risk management activities between the time of purchase and sale. Existing price risk hedging programs have been adjusted to correspond to the volume of product purchased from third parties.
Logistics Segment Operating Agreements With Delek
Delek Logistics has a number of long-term, fee-based commercial agreements with Delek and its subsidiaries that, among other things, establish fees for certain administrative and operational services provided by Delek and its subsidiaries to Delek Logistics, provide certain indemnification obligations and establish terms for fee-based commercial agreements for Delek Logistics to provide certain pipeline transportation, terminal throughput, finished product marketing and storage services to Delek. Most of these agreements have an initial term ranging from five to ten years, which may be extended for various renewal terms at the option of Delek. Each of these agreements requires Delek or a Delek subsidiary to pay for certain minimum volume commitments ("MVCs") or certain minimum storage capacities.
Logistics Segment Customers
In addition to certain of our subsidiaries, our logistics segment has various types of customers, including major oil companies, independent refiners and marketers, jobbers, distributors, utility and transportation companies and independent retail fuel operators.
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Logistics Segment Seasonality
The volume and throughput of crude oil and refined products transported through our pipelines and sold through our terminals and to third parties is directly affected by the level of supply and demand for all of such products in the markets served directly or indirectly by our assets. Supply and demand for such products fluctuates during the calendar year. Demand for gasoline, for example, is generally higher during the summer months than during the winter months due to seasonal increases in motor vehicle traffic. Varying vapor pressure requirements between the summer and winter months also tighten summer gasoline supply. In addition, our refining segment often performs planned maintenance during the winter, when demand for their products is lower. Accordingly, these factors can diminish the demand for crude oil or finished products by our customers, and therefore limit our volumes or throughput during these periods, and we expect that our operating results will generally be lower during the first and fourth quarters of the calendar year.
Logistics Segment Competition
Our logistics segment faces competition for the transportation and storage of crude oil and refined product from other pipeline owners whose pipelines and storage facilities (i) may have a location advantage over our pipelines offtake or storage facilities, (ii) may be able to transport or store more desirable crude oil or refined products, (iii) may be able to transport or store crude oil or refined product at a lower tariff or (iv) may be able to store more crude oil or refined product. With respect to the logistics segment's gathering and processing activities, competition is impacted by the prevalence of other midstream companies in the region with gathering lines, compression facilities, processing plants, and storage and transportation capabilities. Additionally, the demand for gathering and processing activities is dependent upon oil and gas production in the area. Our competitive position is dependent upon our ability to develop relationships with producers, to provide an integrated gathering and processing asset infrastructure, including rights-of-way, that allows us to demonstrate the breadth, quality, and relevance of our gathering and processing service offerings, and to secure strategic long-term contracts with those producers. In addition, the wholesale marketing and terminalling business in general is also very competitive. Our owned refined product terminals, as well as the other third-party terminals we use to sell refined products, compete with other independent terminal operators as well as integrated oil companies on the basis of terminal location, price, versatility and services provided. The costs associated with transporting products from a loading terminal to end users limit the geographic size of the market that can be competitively served by any terminal.
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Governmental Regulation and Environmental Matters
Environmental Sustainability
As part of the Company’s commitment to corporate sustainability, Delek publishes an annual Sustainability Report describing its environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) strategy, including initiatives related to emissions management and other environmental matters such as energy efficiency, water conservation, waste minimization and recycling. Information contained in the Sustainability Report is not incorporated by reference into, and does not constitute a part of, this Form 10-K. While the Company believes that its Sustainability Report and other voluntary ESG disclosures address areas of interest to a broad range of stakeholders, the Company does not currently believe that such disclosures address matters that are material to its operations, strategy, financial condition or results of operations in the near term. The Company continues to evaluate ESG-related topics through ongoing stakeholder engagement and internal assessments, and its views on materiality may evolve over time as circumstances, regulatory expectations and business conditions change. Given the estimates, assumptions and timelines underlying certain ESG initiatives, the materiality of these disclosures is inherently difficult to assess in advance.
Delek remains committed to managing its environmental footprint and advancing initiatives intended to enhance the sustainability, efficiency and resilience of its operations. In prior years, the Company established a Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions intensity reduction target based on a 2022 baseline year that reflects the Company’s current operational boundaries. The Company continues to evaluate its approach to emissions management and environmental performance in the context of evolving business priorities, operational considerations and stakeholder expectations. During 2025, the Company continued to pursue a range of environmental initiatives across its operations, including efforts related to emissions management, energy efficiency, water stewardship, waste minimization and recycling. The Company believes that these initiatives, together with ongoing evaluation of operational practices and technologies, support its broader environmental objectives and inform its longer-term sustainability strategy.
Rate Regulation of Petroleum Pipelines
The rates and terms and conditions of service on certain of our crude oil and refined products pipelines are subject to regulation by FERC under the Interstate Commerce Act (the “ICA”) and by the state regulatory commissions in the states in which we transport crude oil, intermediate and refined products. Certain of our pipeline systems are subject to such regulation and have filed tariffs with the appropriate authorities. We also comply with the reporting requirements for these pipelines. Some of our other pipeline systems have received a waiver from application of the FERC's tariff requirements, but comply with other applicable regulatory requirements
The FERC regulates interstate transportation under the ICA, the Energy Policy Act of 1992 and the rules and regulations promulgated under those laws. The ICA, and its implementing regulations, require that tariff rates for interstate service on oil pipelines, including pipelines that transport crude oil, intermediate and refined products in interstate commerce, be just and reasonable and non-discriminatory, and that such rates and terms and conditions of service be filed with the FERC. Under the ICA, shippers may challenge new or existing rates or services. The FERC is authorized to suspend the effectiveness of a challenged rate for up to seven months, though rates are typically not suspended for the maximum allowable period. Our tariff rates are typically contractually subject to increase or decrease on July 1 of each year, by the amount of any change in various inflation-based indices, including the FERC oil pipeline index, the consumer price index and the producer price index; provided, however, that in no event will the fees be adjusted below the amount initially set forth in the applicable agreement.
Environmental, Health and Safety
We are subject to extensive federal, state and local environmental and safety laws and regulations enforced by various agencies, including, but not limited to, the EPA, the U.S. Department of Transportation (the "DOT") and OSHA, as well as numerous state, regional and local environmental, safety and pipeline agencies.
These laws and regulations govern the discharge, release and spillage of materials into the environment, waste management practices, pollution prevention measures and the composition of the fuels we produce, as well as the safe operation of our plants, pipelines and trucks and the safety of our workers, the public and the environment. Numerous permits or other authorizations are required under these laws and regulations for the operation of our refineries, renewable fuel facilities, terminals, pipelines, trucks, rail cars and related operations, and such permits and authorizations may be subject to revocation, modification and renewal.
Any failure to comply with these laws and permits may raise potential exposure to future claims and lawsuits involving environmental and safety matters, which could include soil, surface water and water contamination, air pollution, personal injury and property damage allegedly caused by substances which we manufactured, handled, used, released or disposed of, transported, or that relate to pre-existing conditions for which we have assumed responsibility. We believe that our current operations are in substantial compliance with existing environmental and safety requirements and permitting requirements. However, there have been and will continue to be ongoing discussions about environmental and safety matters with us and federal and state authorities, including receipt of and responses to notices of violations, citations and other enforcement actions, some of which have resulted, or may result in, changes to operating procedures and in capital expenditures. While it is often difficult to quantify future environmental or safety related expenditures, we anticipate that continuing capital investments and changes in operating procedures will be required for the foreseeable future to comply with existing and new requirements, as well as evolving interpretations of existing laws and regulations. Capital investments in 2026 and 2027 related to compliance with environmental, health and safety regulations are not expected to have a material adverse effect on our results of operations. These estimates do not include amounts related to capital investments that management has deemed to be strategic investments. These amounts could materially change as a result of governmental and regulatory actions.
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We generate wastes that may be subject to the RCRA and comparable state and local requirements. The EPA and various state agencies have limited the approved methods of managing, transporting, recycling and disposing of hazardous and certain non-hazardous wastes. Our refineries are large quantity generators of hazardous waste. Our other facilities, such as terminals, generate lesser quantities of hazardous wastes.
CERCLA, also known as Superfund, imposes liability, without regard to fault or the legality of the original conduct, on certain classes of persons who are considered to be responsible for the release of a hazardous substances into the environment. Analogous state laws impose similar responsibilities and liabilities on responsible parties. In the course of our ordinary operations, our various businesses generate waste, some of which falls within the broad statutory definition of a hazardous substance and some of which may have been disposed of at sites that may require future cleanup under Superfund. At this time, our El Dorado refinery has been named as a de minimis potentially responsible party at one Superfund site, for which we believe future costs will not be material.
As of December 31, 2025, we have recorded an environmental liability of approximately $36.0 million, primarily related to the estimated probable costs of remediating, or otherwise addressing, certain environmental issues of a non-capital nature at the Tyler, El Dorado, Big Spring and Krotz Springs refineries as well as terminals and retail stations, some of which we no longer own. This liability includes estimated costs for ongoing investigation and remediation efforts, which were already being performed by the former operators of the refineries and terminals prior to our acquisition of those facilities, for known contamination of soil and groundwater, as well as estimated costs for additional issues which have been identified subsequent to the acquisitions. Approximately $4.9 million of the total liability is expected to be expended over the next 12 months, with most of the balance expended by 2037, although some costs may extend up to 24 years. In the future, we could be required to extend the expected remediation period or undertake additional investigations of our refineries, pipelines and terminal facilities, which could result in additional remediation liabilities.
Our operations are subject to certain requirements of the Federal Clean Air Act (“CAA”), as well as related state and local laws and regulations governing air emission. Certain CAA regulatory programs applicable to our refineries, terminals and other operations require capital expenditures for the installation of air pollution control devices, operational procedures to minimize emissions and monitoring and reporting of emissions. A consent decree was entered in the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in June 2019 resolving alleged historical violations of the CAA at our Big Spring refinery. In addition to a civil penalty of $0.5 million that we paid in June 2019, the Company will be required to expend capital for pollution control equipment that may be significant over the next 3 years. There are no more capital obligations required after 2028.
The EPA has also finalized revisions the National Ambient Air Quality Standard ("NAAQS") for particulate matter with a nominal mean aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 micrometers or less (PM 2.5). This regulation is currently being challenged in US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. On November 24th, 2025, EPA asked the court to vacate the new standard. EPA may propose a revised version of the regulation in the future. Delek at this time does not believe that the revised NAAQS will have a material impact to Delek.
In December 2020, the EPA designated a portion of Howard County, Texas surrounding the Delek Big Spring refinery and a neighboring carbon black plant as non-attainment for the sulfur dioxide (SO2) 1-hour primary NAAQS of 75 ppb. In October 2022, the TCEQ submitted a State Implementation Plan ("SIP") to the EPA which created new requirements that were effective no later than January 1, 2025. The SIP does include reduced SO2 emission limitations for the Big Spring Refinery. The reduced emission limits are not expected to result in a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations. Additionally, non-attainment areas are subject to Nonattainment New Source Review ("NNSR") which is a permitting program for industrial facilities to ensure that new and modified sources of SO2 emissions do not impede progress toward cleaner air. Delek does not anticipate that SO2 NNSR will significantly impact the Big Spring refinery.
The EPA’s RFS-2 requires that all refiners remit environmental credits, called RINs, which may be generated by blending renewable fuels into the fuel products they produce, or else purchasing RINs on the market, and that such RINs shall be used to satisfy the related renewable volume obligation ("RVO"). Each of our refineries is an obligated party under RFS-2. To the extent that any of our refineries is unable to blend renewable fuels to generate sufficient RINs ("RINs Obligation"), it must purchase RINs to satisfy its annual requirement. Based on our current operating structure, we are unable to blend sufficient quantities of ethanol and biodiesel to meet our RINs Obligation and have to purchase RINs. In June 2022, the EPA finalized volumes for compliance years 2020, 2021 and 2022 under the RFS program, announced supplemental volume obligations for compliance years 2022 and 2023 and established new provisions of the RFS which addressed bio-intermediates. Additionally, the EPA denied the petitions for small refinery exemptions for prior period compliance years. In June 2023, the EPA published the final volume obligations for the years 2023-2025.
The EPA’s Tier 3 gasoline sulfur standards require that all gasoline (and any ethanol-gasoline blend) meet an annual production average sulfur level of 10 ppm or less while maintaining the existing Tier 2 per-gallon sulfur caps of 80 ppm at the refinery gate and 95 ppm downstream. Small volume refineries that increase their annual average crude oil processing above the 75,000 bpd level must comply with the Tier 3 requirements within 30 months from the time that processing level was exceeded. Compliance is not expected to have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.
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Our operations are also subject to the Federal Clean Water Act (“CWA”), the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (“OPA-90”) and comparable state and local requirements. The CWA, and similar laws, prohibit any discharge into surface waters, ground waters, injection wells and publicly-owned treatment works, except as allowed by pre-treatment permits and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) permits issued by federal, state and local governmental agencies. The OPA-90 prohibits the discharge of oil into "Waters of the U.S." and requires that affected facilities have plans in place to respond to spills and other discharges. The CWA also regulates filling or discharges to wetlands and other "Waters of the U.S." To date, these rules have not materially impacted our business, however, if the scope of the CWA’s jurisdiction is expanded through new regulatory amendments or legal challenges, we could face increased operating costs or other impediments that could alter the way we conduct our business, which could in turn have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
In recent years, various legislative and regulatory measures to address climate change and GHG emissions (including carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxides) have been discussed or implemented. They include proposed and enacted federal regulation and state actions to develop statewide, regional or nationwide programs designed to control and reduce GHG emissions from fixed sources, such as our refineries, power plants and oil and gas production operations, as well as mobile transportation sources and fuels. EPA rules require us to report GHG emissions from our refinery operations and use of fuel products produced at our refineries on an annual basis. While the cost of compliance with the reporting rule is not material, data gathered under the rule may be used in the future to support additional regulation of GHG. Moreover, the EPA directly regulates GHG emissions from refineries and other major sources through the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (“PSD”) and Federal Operating Permit programs and may require Best Available Control Technology for GHG emissions above a certain threshold if emissions of other pollutants would otherwise require PSD permitting.
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration ("PHMSA") of the DOT regulates the design, construction, testing, operation, maintenance, reporting and emergency response of crude oil, petroleum product and other hazardous liquids pipelines and other facilities, including certain tank facilities used in the transportation of such liquids. These requirements are complex, subject to change and, in certain cases, can be costly to comply with. We believe our operations are in substantial compliance with these regulations, but we cannot be certain that substantial expenditures will not be required to remain in compliance. Moreover, certain of these rules are difficult to insure adequately, and we cannot assure that we will have adequate insurance to address costs and damages from any noncompliance.
The U. S. Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty and Job Creation Act of 2011 (“Pipeline Safety Act”) increased the maximum civil penalties for certain violations from $100,000 to $200,000 per violation per day and from a total cap of $1 million to $2 million. A number of the provisions of the Pipeline Safety Act have the potential to cause owners and operators of pipeline facilities to incur significant capital expenditures and/or operating costs. Additionally, PHMSA regulation that impose additional responsibilities concerning the operation, maintenance, and inspection of hazardous liquid pipelines; the reporting of pipeline incidents; reference standards for in-line pipeline inspection and the direct assessment of stress corrosion cracking; and other requirements. Additional potential new regulations of pipelines have been proposed by PHMSA and we are monitoring these developments to the extent applicable to our operations. The DOT has issued guidelines with respect to securing regulated facilities such as our bulk terminals against terrorist attack. We have instituted security measures and procedures in accordance with such guidelines to enhance the protection of certain of our facilities. We cannot provide any assurance that these security measures would fully protect our facilities from an attack.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ("FMCSA") of the DOT regulates safety standards and monitors drivers and equipment of commercial motor carrier fleets. Such standards include vehicle and maintenance inspection requirements, limitations on the number of hours drivers may operate vehicles and financial responsibility requirements. We believe that the operations of our fleet of crude oil and finished products truck transports are substantially in compliance with these regulations and safety requirements.
Human Capital Management
As of December 31, 2025, we had 1,902 full-time employees, 26.6% of which (approximately 505 employees) were subject to a collective bargaining agreement. We recognize that the key to a successful future for Delek depends on the success of our employees and we continue to target a diverse talent pool of employees, at all levels, throughout the company. We are committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for our employees and have adopted a number of policies and programs to support and advance our human capital resources as discussed below.
Inclusion
Delek is dedicated to fostering a culture comprised of different and diverse backgrounds united in purpose, as outlined in our Opportunity and Inclusion Policy, Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, Employee Handbook, and Human Rights Policy. All employees must participate in respectful communication and anti-harassment training to create a more inclusive work environment. We believe that a diverse talent pool brings unique perspectives, experiences, ideas, and solutions that drive our business forward.
Our talent acquisition strategy focuses on colleges and universities with diverse student populations that align to our unique needs and skill sets.
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Turnover and Talent Management
Delek understands the importance of attracting and retaining top talent. We have established relationships with local colleges and universities to increase interest in our organization and industry among upcoming graduates. Our strong internship program offers participants the opportunity to receive annual scholarships based on performance.
Leadership development programs are crucial to our success. Delek offers several levels of leadership development for new leaders, seasoned leaders, future leaders, and even a new tailored program for frontline supervisors in our refineries called "Forging Leaders" program. These classes focus on enhancing communication, change management, and strategy implementation skills.
We strive to maintain a workplace where people are treated with dignity, decency, and respect, as outlined in our Sexual Harassment Policy, Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, and Employee Handbook. Our programs ensure employees are trained and aligned on safety and environmental performance expectations. We use behavior-based techniques that involve management, employees, and contract workers to focus on daily safety behavior through constant evaluation and adaptation.
Benefits and Wellness Programs
Delek seeks to promote a lifestyle of wellness — physically, financially, emotionally, and socially. Our benefits package and employee programs are designed to create a healthy balance of work and life. We offer a benefits package designed to promote the health and wellness of our employees, which includes employer-contributions for medical coverage, and a rebate of paid health premiums for completing annual preventative screenings. Other physical health benefits include the telemedicine program, tobacco cessation program, access to onsite or local fitness centers, and active outings and step challenges.
Delek also recognizes the importance of our employees’ financial health and provides competitive base salaries. We also offer a long-term equity plan, life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, disability insurance, a tuition reimbursement program, dependent scholarship program, financial planning resources, professional and leadership development and employee service awards.
Delek believes in a healthy balance between work and life and offers a variety of programs and resources to ensure every team member can be at their best. We provide a variety of programs to promote this balance such as paid time off and holidays, parental leave, dependent care flexible spending accounts, the employee assistance program and the Delek Employee Care Fund. We also believe in investing in our employees’ social and community health. To foster a better community for our employees, we provide programs such as at-work socials, after-hours company sponsored recreation events, the Delek Day of Caring, which provides community volunteer opportunities, and the Delek Fund for Hope, which supports 501(c)(3) non-profits in the communities where our employees live and work.
Health and Safety Initiatives
Delek is committed to its core value of safety and discipline, and strives to create a safe work environment through programs in personal safety, process safety, health and wellness, and facility and employee security. Delek applies safety management systems and drives strong execution of those processes to create operational excellence. Delek’s “Integrity Management System” ("IMS") creates a structured approach to all aspects of our business. The IMS requires that work processes be documented, defined accountability, and employees be trained to execute those processes. The IMS provides layers of assurance and verification, where Delek “checks” to ensure processes are being executed as defined.
Delek’s 10 “Life Saving Rules” apply to everyone who works at or on behalf of a Delek site. These rules protect our employees and contractors, communicate and reinforce Delek’s safe work expectations, and provide accountability for safety. The Life Saving Rules address safety issues such as energy isolation, working from heights, safe excavation, use of personal protective equipment, and safe driving. Delek adheres to all federal, state, and local government regulatory requirements for safety, including OSHA’s process safety management standards, and the EPA’s Risk Management Program. Delek also applies industry safety best practices, such as those published by the American Petroleum Institute.
Delek increases employee engagement and ownership of safety through its “Drive Zero” efforts, which aim to create an incident-free workplace. We track and investigate incidents and near misses and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence. Since 2022, we have held an annual, company-wide “Safety Day” that provides all employees a chance to re-focus on safety fundamentals, and learn new tools to enhance their safety. Fundamentally, daily safety meetings, job safety analyses and every employee’s “Stop Work Authority” foster a culture of health, safety, and environmental awareness and accountability embraced at all levels of Delek, from front line workers to management and executive leadership. In addition to our culture and continual assessment, Delek expects all employees and leadership to meet safety expectations and Delek empowers our employees to make adjustments or stop work as needed in order to correct, or prevent, adverse safety or environmental conditions. Delek evaluates the safety performance and systems of contract companies before allowing them to work at Delek sites. Contract company employees are provided site-specific training on safety processes and hazards before they begin work at a Delek site.
Delek’s focus on emergency preparedness ensures that Delek is prepared to respond, should an emergency occur. These efforts include defined response plans, specially-trained responders, practice drills, and an inventory of emergency response equipment. Delek practices its response plans at all levels of the organization, within Refining, Logistics and the Corporate organization. Delek partners with agencies and public first responders for training and field exercises. Delek applies standardized, nationally-accepted incident command structures to ensure consistent, predictable, and effective emergency management. Delek is applying advanced technologies to increase our response capabilities.
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Delek implemented a standardized, company-wide emergency notification system. Delek also applies drone technology within its response plans to provide a real-time situational assessment that allows teams to respond more efficiently and effectively to emergencies .
Community Relations
Delek operates a 501(c)(3) non-profit called the Delek Fund for Hope that supports nonprofits alongside our employees and business partners in the communities where we live and work. Employees are able to give a portion of their paycheck to the Fund for Hope and/or complete volunteer hours within their local community. The Delek Day of Caring encourages employees to take paid and after hour time to volunteer with their local nonprofits.
Information Technology
In 2025, Delek remained focused on enhancing infrastructure, ensuring robust security measures, streamlining enterprise applications, and advancing innovation, artificial intelligence, and data analytics to support Delek's strategic and operational goals. Delek further enhanced its business continuity by reducing recovery time and recovery point objectives, ensuring that our systems are capable of quickly recovering from any potential disruptions. In addition, Delek continued to enhance its cybersecurity standards across its information technology ("IT") and operational technology ("OT") including enhanced training programs for employees and refined reviews of cybersecurity incidents.
Corporate Headquarters
We lease our corporate headquarters at 310 Seven Springs Way, Suite 400 and 500, Brentwood, Tennessee. The lease is for 56,141 square feet of office space. The lease term expires January 31, 2030.
Liens and Encumbrances
The majority of the assets described in this Form 10-K are pledged and encumbered under certain of our debt facilities. See Note 11 of the consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further information.
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
We are subject to numerous known and unknown risks, many of which are presented below and elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. You should carefully consider each of the following risks and all of the other information contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K in evaluating us and our common stock. Any of the risk factors described below, or additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us, or that we currently deem immaterial, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, cash flows and results of operations. The headings provided in this Item 1A are for convenience and reference purposes only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the extent or interpretation of the risk factors.
Risks Relating to Our Industries
Developments which impact the global oil markets have had, may continue to have, or may have an adverse impact on our business, our future results of operations and our overall financial performance.
While our operations are focused primarily in the Gulf Coast Region (PADD III), our business is impacted by events and developments that impact the global markets for oil and other energy products. Any regional or global event or development that destabilizes worldwide economic and commercial activity, financial markets, or the demand for and prices of oil and gas products could materially adversely affect our business and operations. In recent years, the outbreak of a pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine War, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ("OPEC")-Russia relationship, and the conflict between Israel and Hamas have been sources of uncertainty in the global oil markets, substantial global supply chain issues, and significant disruptions in the labor market.
Global economic growth drives demand for energy from all sources, including fossil fuels. Should the U.S. or global economies experience weakness, demand for energy may decline. Should growth in global energy production outstrip demand, excess supplies may arise. Declines in demand and excess supplies may result in accompanying declines in commodity prices and deterioration of our financial position along with our ability to operate profitably and our ability to obtain financing to support operations. Conversely, should demand for energy outstrip global supply, commodity prices are likely to rise. With respect to our business, we have experienced periodic declines in demand thought to be associated with slowing economic growth in certain markets coupled with new oil and gas supplies coming on line and other circumstances beyond our control that resulted in oil and gas supply exceeding global demand which, in turn, resulted in steep declines in prices of oil and natural gas. At times, we have also experienced declines in the supply of inputs thought to be associated with supply chain issues and disruptions in the labor market. There can be no assurance as to how long such uncertainty will persist or that a recurrence of price weakness will not arise in the future.
The ultimate extent of the impact of volatile conditions in the oil and gas industry on our business, financial condition, results of operation and liquidity will depend largely on future developments which are outside of our control, including the extent and duration of any price reductions, any additional decisions by OPEC and disputes between the members of other leading oil producing countries (together with OPEC, “OPEC+”). Furthermore, developments in the global oil markets may also have the effect of heightening many of the other risks described below.
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A regional or global disease outbreak could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operation and liquidity.
A regional or global disease outbreak could result in financial and operational impacts that have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operation and liquidity.
Any regional or global disease outbreak may result in modifications to our business practices, including limiting employee and contractor presence at certain work locations, limiting travel and reducing capital expenditures. We may take further actions as required by government authorities or that we determine are in the best interests of our employees, contractors, customers, suppliers and communities. However, there is no assurance that such measures will be sufficient to mitigate the risks posed by any outbreak, and our ability to successfully execute our business operations could be adversely impacted. In addition, a regional or global disease outbreak could result in additional impairments of long-lived or indefinite-lived assets, including goodwill, at some point in the future. Such impairment charges could be material.
It is difficult to predict how significant the impact of any regional or global disease outbreak and any responses to such events will be on the U.S. and global economies and our business or for how long disruptions are likely to continue. The extent of such impact will depend on future developments and factors outside of our control, including new information which may emerge concerning the severity or duration of such disease, the evolving governmental and private sector actions to contain the pandemic or treat its health, economic, and other impacts, and the timing and effectiveness of the ongoing rollout of currently available vaccines.
To the extent any regional or global disease outbreak impacts our business or the global markets for our products, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operation and liquidity.
A substantial or extended decline in refining margins would reduce our operating results and cash flows and could materially and adversely impact our future rate of growth and the carrying value of our assets.
Our earnings, cash flow and profitability from our refining operations are substantially determined by the difference between the market price of refined products and the market price of crude oil, which often move independently of each other and are referred to as the crack spread, refining margin or refined products margin. Refining margins historically have been volatile, and we believe they will continue to be volatile. Although we monitor our refinery operating margins and seek to optimize results by adjusting throughput volumes, throughput types and product slates, there are inherent limitations on our ability to offset the effects of adverse market conditions.
Many of the factors influencing changes in crack spreads and refining margins are beyond our control. These factors include:
• changes in global and local economic conditions;
• domestic and foreign supply and demand for crude oil and refined products, including changes in the availability and cost of inputs from price inflation and supply chain disruptions;
• the level of foreign and domestic production of crude oil and refined petroleum products;
• changes in the rate of inflation (including the cost of raw materials, labor, commodities, and supplies) and interest rates;
• increased regulation of feedstock production activities, such as hydraulic fracturing;
• infrastructure limitations that restrict, or events that disrupt, the distribution of crude oil, other feedstocks and refined petroleum products;
• excess or overbuilt infrastructure;
• an increase or decrease of infrastructure limitations (or the perception that such an increase or decrease could occur) on the distribution of crude oil, other feedstocks or refined products;
• investor speculation in commodities;
• worldwide political conditions, particularly in significant oil producing regions such as the Middle East, Africa, the former Soviet Union and South America;
• the ability or inability of the members of OPEC to maintain oil price and production controls;
• pricing and other actions taken by competitors that impact the market;
• the level of crude oil, other feedstocks and refined petroleum products imported into and exported out of the U. S.;
• excess capacity and utilization rates of refineries worldwide;
• development and marketing of alternative and competing fuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel;
• changes in fuel specifications required by environmental and other laws, particularly with respect to oxygenates and sulfur content;
• local factors, including market conditions, adverse weather conditions and the level of operations of other refineries and pipelines in our markets;
• volatility in the costs of natural gas and electricity used by our refineries;
• accidents, interruptions in transportation, inclement weather, earthquakes, or other events, including cyber-attacks, that can cause unscheduled shutdowns or otherwise adversely affect our refineries or the supply and delivery of crude oil from third parties; and
• U.S. government regulations.
Some of these factors can vary by region and may change quickly, adding to market volatility, while others may have longer-term effects. The long-term effects of these and other factors on prices for crude oil, refinery feedstocks and refined products could be substantial.
The crude oil we purchase, and the refined products we sell, are commodities whose prices are mainly determined by market forces beyond our control. While an increase or decrease in the price of crude oil will often result in a corresponding increase or decrease in the wholesale price of
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refined products, a change in the price of one commodity does not always result in a corresponding change in the other. A substantial or prolonged increase in crude oil prices without a corresponding increase in refined product prices, or a substantial or prolonged decrease in refined product prices without a corresponding decrease in crude oil prices, could also have a significant negative effect on our results of operations and cash flows. This is especially true for non-transportation refined products, such as asphalt, butane, coke, sulfur, propane and slurry, whose prices are less likely to correlate to fluctuations in the price of crude oil, all of which we produce at our refineries.
Also, the price for a significant portion of the crude oil processed at our refineries is based upon the WTI benchmark for such oil rather than the Brent Crude benchmark. While the prices for WTI and Brent historically correlate to one another, elevated supply of WTI-priced crude oil in the Mid-Continent region has caused WTI prices to fall significantly below Brent prices at different points in time in recent years. Our ability to purchase and process favorably priced crude oil has allowed us to achieve higher net income and cash flow in certain years; however, we cannot assure that these favorable conditions will continue.
The narrowing, and in some cases inversion, in the price differential between WTI and Brent benchmarks has negatively impacted our results of operations in the past. Narrowing or inversion in the price differential between the WTI and Brent benchmarks for any reason, including, without limitation, increased crude oil distribution capacity from the Permian Basin, crude oil exports from the U.S. or actual or perceived reductions in Mid-Continent crude oil inventories, could further negatively impact our earnings and cash flows, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, because the premium or discount we pay for a portion of the crude oil processed at our refineries is established based upon this differential during the month prior to the month in which the crude oil is processed, rapid decreases in the differential may negatively affect our results of operations and cash flows.
Additionally, governmental and regulatory actions, including continued resolutions by OPEC to restrict crude oil production levels and actions to advance certain energy infrastructure projects may continue to impact crude oil prices and crude oil differentials. Any increase in crude oil prices or unfavorable movements in crude oil differentials due to such actions or changing regulatory environment may negatively impact our ability to acquire crude oil at economical prices and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We operate in a highly regulated industry and increased costs of compliance with, or liability for violation of, existing or future laws, regulations, executive orders and other requirements could significantly increase our costs of doing business, thereby adversely affecting our profitability.
Our industry is subject to extensive laws, regulations, permits and other requirements including, but not limited to, those relating to the environment, fuel composition, safety, transportation, pipeline tariffs, employment, labor, immigration, minimum wages, overtime pay, health care benefits, working conditions, public accessibility, retail fuel pricing and other requirements. These permits, laws and regulations are enforced by federal agencies including the EPA, DOT, PHMSA, FMCSA, Federal Railroad Administration ("FRA"), OSHA, National Labor Relations Board, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"), Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") and the FERC, and numerous other state and federal agencies. We anticipate that compliance with environmental, health and safety regulations could require us to spend significant amounts in capital costs during the next five years. These estimates do not include amounts related to capital investments that management has deemed to be strategic investments. These amounts could materially change as a result of governmental and regulatory actions.
Various permits, licenses, registrations and other authorizations are required under these laws for the operation of our refineries, terminals, pipelines and related operations, and these permits are subject to renewal and modification that may require operational changes involving significant costs. If key permits cannot be renewed or are revoked, the ability to continue operation of the affected facilities could be threatened.
Ongoing compliance with, or violation of, laws, regulations and other requirements could also have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. We face potential exposure to future claims and lawsuits involving environmental matters, including, but not limited to, surface water, ground water, and wetlands contamination, air pollution, personal injury and property damage allegedly caused by substances we manufactured, handled, used, released or disposed. We are, and have been, the subject of various state, federal and private proceedings relating to environmental regulations, conditions and inquiries.
In addition, new legal requirements, new interpretations of existing legal requirements, increased legislative activity and governmental enforcement and other developments could require us to make additional unforeseen expenditures. Companies in the petroleum industry, such as us, are often the target of activist and regulatory activity regarding pricing, safety, environmental compliance, derivatives trading and other business practices, which could result in price controls, fines, increased taxes or other actions affecting the conduct of our business. The specific impact of laws and regulations or other actions may vary depending on a number of factors, including the age and location of operating facilities, marketing areas, crude oil and feedstock sources and production processes.
Environmental regulations are becoming more stringent, and new environmental and safety laws and regulations are continuously being enacted or proposed. Compliance with any future legislation or regulation of our produced fuels, including renewable fuel or carbon content, GHG emissions, sulfur, benzene or other toxic content, vapor pressure, octane; or other fuel characteristics, may result in increased capital and operating costs and may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial conditions or results of operations. While it is impractical to predict the impact that potential regulatory and activist activity may have, such future activity may result in increased costs to operate and maintain our facilities, as well as increased capital outlays to improve our facilities. Such future activity could also adversely affect our ability to expand production, result in damaging publicity about us, or reduce demand for our products. Our need to incur costs associated with
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complying with any resulting new legal or regulatory requirements that are substantial and not adequately provided for, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Risks Related to Regulation of Hazardous Waste
We generate wastes that may be subject to RCRA and comparable state and local requirements. The EPA and various state agencies have limited the approved methods of managing, transporting, recycling and disposing of hazardous and certain non-hazardous wastes. Our refineries are large quantity generators of hazardous waste and require hazardous waste permits issued by the EPA or state agencies. Additionally, certain of our other facilities, such as terminals, generate lesser quantities of hazardous wastes.
Under RCRA, CERCLA and other federal, state and local environmental laws, as the owner or operator of refineries, biodiesel plants, bulk terminals, pipelines, tank farms, rail cars and trucks, we may be liable for the costs of removal or remediation of contamination at our existing or former locations, whether we knew of, or were responsible for, the presence of such contamination. We have incurred such liability in the past, and several of our current and former locations are the subject of ongoing remediation projects. The failure to timely report and properly remediate contamination may subject us to liability to third parties and may adversely affect our ability to sell or rent our property or to borrow money using our property as collateral. Additionally, persons who arrange for the disposal or treatment of hazardous substances also may be liable for the costs of removal or remediation of these substances at sites where they are located, regardless of whether the site is owned or operated by that person. We typically arrange for the treatment or disposal of hazardous substances generated by our refining and other operations. Therefore, we may be liable for removal or remediation costs associated with releases of these substances at third party locations, as well as other related costs, including fines, penalties and damages resulting from injuries to persons, property and natural resources. In the future, we may incur substantial expenditures for investigation or remediation of contamination that has not been discovered at our current or former locations or locations that we may acquire or at third party sites where hazardous substances from these locations have been treated or disposed.
Risks Related to Air Emissions Regulations
Our operations are subject to certain requirements of the CAA, as well as related state and local laws and regulations governing air emissions. Certain CAA regulatory programs applicable to our refineries, terminals and other operations require capital expenditures for the installation of air pollution control devices, operational procedures to minimize emissions and monitoring and reporting of emissions.
A consent decree was entered in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in June 2019 resolving alleged historical violations of the CAA at our Big Spring refinery. In addition to a civil penalty of $0.5 million that we paid in June 2019, we will be required to expend capital for pollution control equipment that may be significant over the next 3 years. According to the EPA, approximately 95% of the nation's refining capacity has entered into "global" settlements under the EPA National Refinery Initiative.
In 2015, the EPA finalized reductions in the NAAQS for ozone, from 75 ppb to 70 ppb. Our Tyler refinery is located near areas classified as being in non-attainment with the new standard. However, the refinery area has not been classified as being in non-attainment with the new standard. If air quality near our facilities worsens in the future, it is possible that these area(s) could be reclassified as being in non-attainment for the new ozone standard which could require us to install additional air pollution control equipment for ozone forming emissions in the future. We do not believe such capital expenditures, or the changes in our operation, will result in a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.
In late 2015, the EPA finalized additional rules regulating refinery air emissions from a variety of sources (such as cokers, flares, tanks and other process units) through additional New Source Performance Standard and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants and changing the way emissions from startup, shutdown and malfunction operations are regulated (the "Refinery Risk and Technology Review Rules" or “RTR”). The RTR rule also requires that we monitor property line benzene concentrations at our refineries, and report those concentrations quarterly to the EPA, which will make the results available to the public. Even though the concentrations are not expected to exceed regulatory or health-based standards, we have experienced some time periods above the action level, and have taken the corrective actions required by the RTR for those time periods. The availability of such data may increase the likelihood of lawsuits against our refineries by the local public or organized public interest groups.
In addition to our operations, many of the fuel products we manufacture are subject to requirements of the CAA, as well as related state and local laws and regulations. The EPA has the authority, under the CAA, to modify the formulation of the refined transportation fuel products we manufacture, in order to limit the emissions associated with their final use. We have purchased credits in the past to comply with these content requirements for two of our refineries. Although credits have been readily available, there can be no assurance that such credits will continue to be available for purchase at reasonable prices, or at all, and we could have to implement capital projects in the future to reduce benzene levels.
Risks Related to Water Emissions Regulations
Our operations are also subject to the CWA, the OPA-90 and comparable state and local requirements regulating emissions into waterways, groundwater and wetlands. With respect to wetlands, the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency narrowed federal jurisdiction over wetlands under the CWA, which could reduce the level of regulation of our activities under the CWA. However, it is expected that further clarifications and changes may arise through implementing federal regulations, additional litigation over application of the Court’s decision, and/or state laws and regulations. As a result of this uncertainty, we could face increased or unexpected operating costs or other impediments that could alter the way we conduct our business, which could in turn have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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Risks Related to Transportation Regulations
We are subject to regulation by the DOT and various state agencies in connection with our pipeline, trucking and rail transportation operations. These regulatory authorities exercise broad powers, governing activities such as the authorization to operate hazardous materials pipelines and engage in motor carrier operations. There are additional regulations specifically relating to the transportation industry, including integrity management of pipelines, testing and specification of equipment, product handling and labeling requirements and personnel qualifications. The transportation industry is subject to possible regulatory and legislative changes that may affect the economics of our business by requiring changes in operating practices or pipeline construction or by changing the demand for common or contract carrier services or the cost of providing trucking services. Possible changes include, among other things, increasingly stringent environmental regulations, increased frequency and stringency for testing and repairing pipelines, replacement of older pipelines, changes in the hours of service regulations that govern the amount of time a driver may drive in any specific period, on-board black box recorder devices or limits on vehicle weight and size and properties of the materials that can be shipped. Required changes to the specifications governing rail cars carrying crude oil will eliminate the most commonly used tank cars or require that such cars be upgraded. In addition to the substantial remediation costs that could be caused by leaks or spills from our pipelines, regulators could prohibit our use of affected portions of the pipeline for extended periods, thereby interrupting the delivery of crude oil to, or the distribution of refined products from, our refineries.
In addition, the DOT has issued guidelines with respect to securing regulated facilities such as our bulk terminals against terrorist attack. We have instituted security measures and procedures in accordance with such guidelines to enhance the protection of certain of our facilities. We cannot provide any assurance that these security measures would fully protect our facilities from an attack.
Our operating responsibility for bulk product terminals and refined product pipelines includes responsibility to ensure the quality and purity of the products loaded at our loading racks. If our quality control measures were to fail, we may have contaminated or off-specification products in pipelines and storage tanks or off-specification product could be sent to public gasoline stations. These types of incidents could result in product liability claims from our customers, as well as negative publicity. Product liability is a significant commercial risk. Substantial damage awards have been made in certain jurisdictions against manufacturers and resellers based upon claims for injuries caused by the use of or exposure to various products. There can be no assurance that product liability claims against us would not have a material adverse effect on our business or results of operations or our ability to maintain existing customers or retain new customers.
Risks Related to Workplace Safety Regulations
Our operations are subject to various laws and regulations relating to occupational health and safety and process safety administered by OSHA, the EPA and various state equivalent agencies. We maintain safety, training, design standards, mechanical integrity and maintenance programs as part of our ongoing efforts to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations and to protect the safety of our workers and the public. More stringent laws or regulations or adverse changes in the interpretation of existing laws or regulations by government agencies could have an adverse effect on our financial position and the results of our operations and could require substantial expenditures for the installation and operation of systems and equipment.
Health and safety legislation and regulations change frequently. We cannot predict what additional health and safety legislation or regulations will be enacted or become effective in the future or how existing or future laws or regulations will be administered or interpreted with respect to our operations. Compliance with applicable health and safety laws and regulations has required, and continues to require, substantial expenditures. Future process safety rules could also mandate changes to the way we operate, the processes and chemicals we use and the materials from which our process units are constructed. Such regulations could have a significant negative effect on our operations and profitability.
The availability and cost of RINs and other required credits could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.
Pursuant to the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act, the EPA promulgated the RFS-2 (“RFS”) regulations reflecting the increased volume of renewable fuels mandated to be blended into the nation's fuel supply. The regulations, in part, require refiners to add annually increasing amounts of “renewable fuels” to their petroleum products or purchase credits, known as RINs, in lieu of such blending. The RFS imposes a substantial financial obligation on each of our four small refineries. The cost of complying with the RFS is one of our highest operational costs, including significant additional costs to finance our compliance. These costs are highly volatile and unlike other refining companies Delek is not able to pass through its high compliance costs to its customers.
Delek is an obligated party under the RFS, which requires us to obtain RINs to satisfy our annual Renewable Volume Obligation (“RVO”). While we are able to obtain a portion of the RINs required for compliance by blending renewable fuels manufactured by third parties, we must also purchase RINs on the open market in order to comply with the quantity of renewable fuels we are required to blend under the RFS. The price and number of RINs an obligated party must acquire are impacted by government regulation requiring such credits, and also may be impacted by small refiner exemptions (“SREs”) granted by the EPA. In past years, the price of RINs has been highly volatile and the EPA’s decisions on SRE hardship petitions have been unduly delayed. Increasing RINs prices, inconsistent administration of the RFS by the EPA, and Delek’s market position has prevented us from passing through compliance costs of the program in the past and will likely continue in the future. While we cannot predict the future prices of RINs, the costs to obtain the necessary number of RINs could be material. Our future operating results are significantly dependent on the EPAs granting of SREs on a timely basis. If we are unable to pass the costs of compliance with the RFS on
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to our customers, if sufficient RINs are unavailable for purchase, if we have to pay a significantly higher price for RINs or if we are otherwise unable to meet the RFS mandates, our refinery operations, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected.
In the past, we have received SREs under the RFS program for certain of our refineries. In August 2025, the EPA granted full and partial exemptions for certain of our refineries related to obligations for the 2019-2024 calendar years. We were able to use some of these RINs to satisfy our obligation for previous compliance periods. However, because RINs are valid for a one-year period, a majority of the refunded RINs had expired and therefore cannot be used or sold for value to offset future compliance obligations. The relief received also was not sufficient to offset our 2025 compliance obligation and thus Delek’s refineries will need to seek relief from the EPA for the hardship imposed by the RFS for the 2025 compliance year.
In September and October 2025, certain of our subsidiaries filed lawsuits against the EPA in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia seeking to overturn the EPA’s August 2025 denial that the Krotz Springs Refinery was ineligible for an exemption for the 2024 compliance year, and seeking additional relief for the EPA’s decision to refund expired RINs. These lawsuits remain pending, and we are unable to estimate the outcome or the costs we may incur at this time.
In August 2025, the EPA provided an updated framework for evaluation of future SRE petitions, which may ultimately include reallocating waived volumes to other obligated parties. This updated framework may be subject to legal challenge, and we cannot predict the extent to which any such challenge may impact the EPA’s timeliness in responding to such petitions in the future. Moreover, even if the new approach survives any future legal challenges, we cannot guarantee that such an exemption will be obtained for any of our refineries in future years, which could result in increased costs and adversely impact future results of operations and our business strategy.
In addition, the RFS regulations are highly complex and evolving, requiring us to periodically update our compliance systems. The RFS regulations require the EPA to determine and publish the applicable annual volume and percentage standards for each compliance year by November 30 for the forthcoming year, and such blending percentages could be higher or lower than amounts estimated and accrued for in our consolidated financial statements. The future cost of RINs is difficult to estimate until such time as the EPA finalizes the applicable standards for the forthcoming compliance year. Moreover, in addition to increased price volatility in the RINs market, there have been multiple instances of RINs fraud occurring in the marketplace over the past several years. The EPA has initiated several enforcement actions against refiners who purchase fraudulent RINs, resulting in substantial costs to the refiner. While the EPA promulgated a rule in June 2019 aiming to improve transparency in the market for RINs, we cannot predict with certainty our exposure to increased RINs costs in the future, nor can we predict the extent by which costs associated with RFS-2 regulations will impact our future results of operations.
In addition to the risks associated with the EPA administrative decisions regarding SRE petitions, legislative or regulatory actions that modify or eliminate the small refinery exemption program could materially and adversely impact our business. Future changes to the RFS, including amendments to small refinery exemption eligibility requirements or the elimination of the SRE program, could substantially increase our RFS compliance costs. If we are unable to obtain SREs in future years due to such legislative or regulatory changes, or if additional eligibility requirements are imposed that our refineries cannot satisfy, our compliance costs would increase substantially and we would likely be unable to pass such costs through to our customers, which would materially adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations, and business strategy.
Increased supply of and demand for alternative transportation fuels, increased fuel economy standards and increased use of alternative means of transportation could lead to a decrease in transportation fuel prices and/or a reduction in demand for petroleum-based transportation fuels.
As regulatory initiatives have required an increase in the consumption of renewable transportation fuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, consumer acceptance of electric, hybrid and other alternative vehicles is increasing. Increased use of renewable fuels and alternative vehicles may result in a decrease in demand for petroleum-based transportation fuels. Increased use of renewable fuels may also result in an increase in transportation fuel supply relative to decreased demand and a corresponding decrease in margins. A significant decrease in transportation fuel margins or demand for petroleum-based transportation fuels could have an adverse impact on our financial results. As described above, RFS-2 required replacement of increasing amounts of petroleum-based transportation fuels with biofuels through 2022. RFS-2 and widespread use of E-15 or E-85 could cause decreased crude runs and materially affect our profitability, unless fuel demand rises at a comparable rate or other outlets are found for the displaced petroleum products.
In 2012, the EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ("NHTSA") finalized rules raising the required Corporate Average Fuel Economy and GHG standards for passenger vehicles beginning with 2017 model year vehicles and increasing to the equivalent of 54.5 mpg by 2025. These standards were reaffirmed by the EPA in January 2017, but that action was subsequently withdrawn on April 13, 2018. Additional increases in fuel efficiency standards for medium and heavy-duty vehicles were finalized in 2016. On August 10, 2021, the NHTSA proposed to amend the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards previously published in 2020 (for model years 2024-2026) to increase the stringency at a rate of 8% per year, rather than the 1.5% set previously. Such increases in fuel economy standards and potential electrification of the vehicle fleet, along with mandated increases in use of renewable fuels discussed above, could result in decreasing demand for petroleum fuels, which, in turn, could materially affect profitability at our refineries.
To meet higher fuel efficiency and GHG emission standards for passenger vehicles, automobile manufacturers are increasingly using technologies, such as turbocharging, direct injection and higher compression ratios that require high octane gasoline. Many auto manufacturers have expressed a desire that only a high-octane grade of gasoline be allowed in order to maximize fuel efficiency, rather than the three octane
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grades common now. Regulatory changes allowing only one high-octane grade, or significant increases in market demand for high-octane fuel, could result in a shift to high-octane ethanol blends containing 25% - 30% ethanol, the need for capital expenditures at our refineries to increase octane or reduced demand for petroleum fuels, which could materially affect profitability of our refineries.
Competition in the refining and logistics industry is intense, and an increase in competition in the markets in which we sell our products could adversely affect our earnings and profitability.
We compete with a broad range of companies in our refining and petroleum product operations. Many of these competitors are integrated, multinational oil companies that are substantially larger than us. Because of their diversity, integration of operations, larger capitalization, larger and more complex refineries and greater resources, these companies may be better able to withstand volatile market conditions relating to crude oil and refined product pricing, compete on the basis of price, obtain crude oil in times of shortage, and withstand weather disruptions.
We do not engage in petroleum exploration or production, and therefore do not produce any of our crude oil feedstocks. Certain of our competitors, however, obtain a portion of their feedstocks from company-owned production activities. Competitors that have their own crude oil production are at times able to offset losses from refining operations with profits from producing operations and may be better positioned to withstand periods of depressed refining margins or feedstock shortages. If we are unable to compete effectively with these competitors, there could be a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Decreases in commodity prices may lessen our borrowing capacities, increase collateral requirements for derivative instruments or cause a write-down of inventory.
The nature of our business requires us to maintain substantial quantities of crude oil, refined petroleum product and blendstock inventories. Because these inventories are commodities, we have no control over their changing market value. For example, reductions in the value of our inventories or accounts receivable as a result of lower commodity prices could result in a reduction in our borrowing base calculations and a reduction in the amount of financial resources available to meet the refineries' credit requirements. Further, if at any time our availability under certain of our revolving credit facilities falls below certain thresholds, we may be required to take steps to reduce our utilization under those credit facilities. In addition, changes in commodity prices may require us to utilize substantial amounts of cash to settle or cash collateralize some or all of our existing commodity hedges. Finally, because our inventory is valued at the lower of cost or market value, we would record a write-down of inventory and a non-cash charge to cost of sales if the market value of the inventory were to decline to an amount below our cost.
Acts of terror or sabotage, threats of war, armed conflict, or war may have an adverse impact on our business, our future results of operations and our overall financial performance.
Acts of sabotage or terrorist attacks (including cyber-attacks), threats of war, armed conflict, or war, as well as events occurring in response to or in connection with them, including political instability in significant oil producing regions such as the Middle East, Africa, the former Soviet Union and South America, may harm our business or have an adverse impact on our future results of operations and financial condition. This risk, and others dependent on geopolitical factors, may be heightened as a result of ongoing conflicts such as the Russia-Ukraine war and Israel-Hamas war and events occurring in response thereto.
Energy-related assets (which could include refineries, pipelines and terminals) may be at greater risk of future terrorist attacks than other possible targets in the U.S. direct attack on our assets, or the assets of others used by us, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Uncertainty surrounding new or continued global hostilities or other sustained military campaigns, sanctions brought by the U.S. and other countries, and the possibility that infrastructure facilities could be direct targets of, or indirect casualties of, an act of terror, armed conflict or war may affect our operations in unpredictable ways, including disruptions of crude oil supplies and markets for refined products. In addition, any terrorist attack, armed conflict, war or political instability in significant oil producing regions such as the Middle East, Africa, the former Soviet Union and South America could have an adverse impact on energy prices, including prices for crude oil, other feedstocks and refined petroleum products, and an adverse impact on the margins from our refining and petroleum product marketing operations. The long-term impacts of terrorist attacks and the threat of future terrorist attacks on the energy transportation industry in general, and on us in particular, are unknown. Increased security measures taken by us as a precaution against possible terrorist attacks or vandalism could result in increased costs to our business. In addition, disruption or significant increases in energy prices could result in government-imposed price controls. Any one of, or a combination of, these occurrences could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Further, changes in the insurance markets attributable to terrorist attacks or acts of sabotage could make certain types of insurance more difficult for us to obtain. Moreover, the insurance that may be available to us may be significantly more expensive than our existing insurance coverage. Instability in the financial markets as a result of terrorism, sabotage or war could also affect our ability to raise capital, including our ability to repay or refinance debt.
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Legislative and regulatory measures to address climate change and GHG emissions could increase our operating costs or decrease demand for our refined products.
Various legislative and regulatory measures to address climate change and GHG emissions (including carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxides) are in various phases of discussion or implementation and could affect our operations. They include proposed and enacted federal regulation and state actions to develop statewide, regional or nationwide programs designed to control and reduce GHG emissions from fixed sources, such as our refineries, coal-fired power plants and oil and gas production operations, as well as mobile transportation sources and fuels. Many states and regions have implemented, or are in the process of implementing, measures to reduce emissions of GHGs, primarily through cap and trade programs or low carbon fuel standards.
In December 2009, the EPA published its findings that emissions of GHGs present a danger to public health and the environment because emissions of such gases are, according to the EPA, contributing to the warming of the Earth’s atmosphere and other climatic conditions. Based on these findings, the EPA adopted two sets of regulations that restrict emissions of GHGs under existing provisions of the federal CAA, including one that requires a reduction in emissions of GHGs from motor vehicles and another that regulates GHG emissions from certain large stationary sources under the PSD and Title V permitting programs. Congress has also from time to time considered legislation to reduce emissions of GHGs. Efforts have been made, and continue to be made, in the international community toward the adoption of international treaties or protocols that would address global climate change issues. In April 2016, the U.S. became a signatory to the 2015 United Nations Conference on Climate Change, which led to the creation of the Paris Agreement. On January 20, 2025, the U.S. again began the process to withdraw from participation in the Paris Agreement. In addition, a number of state and local governments in the U.S. have expressed intentions to take, or have taken, action to reduce GHG emissions.
More aggressive efforts by governments and non-governmental organizations to reduce GHG emissions appear likely and any such future laws and regulations could result in increased compliance costs or additional operating restrictions applicable to our customers and/or us, and any increase in the prices of refined products resulting from such increased costs, GHG cap-and-trade programs or taxes on GHGs, could result in reduced demand for our refined petroleum products. Our business could also be impacted by governmental initiatives to incentivize the conservation of energy or the use of alternative energy sources.
Although it is not possible to predict the requirements of any GHG legislation that may be enacted, any laws or regulations that have been or may be adopted to restrict or reduce GHG emissions will likely require us to incur increased operating and capital costs and/or increased taxes on GHG emissions and petroleum fuels, and any increase in the prices of refined products resulting from such increased costs, GHG cap and trade programs or taxes on GHGs, could result in reduced demand for our petroleum fuels. As part of our strategy review process, we review hydrocarbon demand forecasts and assesses the impact on our business model, plans, and future estimates of reserves. In addition, we evaluate other lower-carbon technologies that could complement our existing assets, strategy and competencies as part of its long-term capital allocation strategy.
There is increased agency interest in polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. The EPA has designated two PFAS compounds, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). With this designation, the EPA and states could have the ability to order remediation of those compounds and cost recovery at clean-up sites. The EPA and states could also have the authority to reopen closed sites which are shown to be impacted by those PFAS compounds. This could lead to increased monitoring obligations and potential liability related thereto.
If we are unable to maintain sales of our refined products at a price that reflects such increased costs, there could be a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. GHG regulation, including taxes on the GHG content of fuels, could also impact the consumption of refined products, thereby affecting our refinery operations.
Increasing attention to environmental, social and governance matters may impact our business, financial results, cost of capital, or stock price.
In recent years, increasing attention has been given to corporate activities related to ESG matters in public discourse and the investment community. A number of advocacy groups, both domestically and internationally, have campaigned for governmental and private action to promote change at public companies related to ESG matters, including through the investment and voting practices of investment advisers, public pension funds, universities and other members of the investing community.
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These activities include increasing attention and demands for action related to climate change, promoting the use of substitutes to fossil fuel products, litigation and encouraging the divestment of companies in the fossil fuel industry. For example, in recent years, private litigation has been increasingly initiated against oil and gas companies by local and state agencies and private parties alleging climate change impacts arising from their operations and seeking damages and equitable relief. We have not had any climate change litigation initiated against us to date and we cannot reasonably predict whether any such litigation will be initiated against us or, if initiated, what the outcome would be. If any such litigation were to be initiated against us, at a minimum, we would incur legal and other expenses to defend such lawsuits, which amounts may be significant. More recently there has also been growing opposition to ESG matters from U.S. federal, state and local governments, with the President issuing an executive order opposing DEI initiatives in the private sector. Such anti-ESG and anti-DEI-related policies, legislation, initiatives, litigation, and scrutiny could result in additional compliance obligations, litigation risks, and governmental investigations or enforcement actions, which could impact how we conduct our operations or result in reputational harm. If we failed to prevail in any such litigation and were required to pay significant damages and/or materially alter the manner in which we conduct our business, there could be a material adverse impact on our operations, financial condition or results of operations. The increasing attention given to ESG activities and a shift by consumers to more fuel-efficient or alternative fuel vehicles could reduce demand for our products, reduce our profits, increase the potential for investigations and litigation, impair our brand and have negative impacts on our stock price and access to capital markets. Additionally, increased attention may increase opposition to the development, permitting, construction or operation of our pipelines and facilities from environmental groups, landowners, local groups and other advocates. In addition to litigation, such opposition may take the form of organized protests, attempts to block or sabotage our operations, intervention in regulatory or administrative proceedings involving our assets or other actions designed to prevent, disrupt or delay the development, operation, or maintenance of our assets and business.
In addition, organizations that provide information to investors on corporate governance and related matters have developed ratings systems for evaluating companies on their approach to ESG matters. These ratings are used by some investors to inform their investment and voting decisions. Unfavorable ESG ratings may lead to increased negative investor sentiment toward us and our industry and to the diversion of investment to other industries, which could have a negative impact on our stock price and our access to and costs of capital.
Risks Relating to Our Business
We are particularly vulnerable to disruptions to our refining operations because our refining operations are concentrated in four facilities.
Because all of our refining operations are concentrated in the Tyler, El Dorado, Big Spring and Krotz Springs refineries, significant disruptions at one of these facilities could have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial results.
Our refineries consist of many processing units, a number of which have been in operation for many years. These processing units undergo periodic shutdowns, known as turnarounds, during which maintenance is performed to restore the operation of the equipment to a higher level of performance. Depending on which units are affected, all or a portion of a refinery's production may be halted or disrupted during a maintenance turnaround. We are also subject to unscheduled down time for unanticipated maintenance or repairs.
Refinery operations may also be disrupted by external factors, such as a suspension of feedstock deliveries, cyber-attacks, or an interruption of electricity, natural gas, water treatment or other utilities or a global pandemic. Other potentially disruptive factors include natural disasters, severe weather conditions, workplace or environmental accidents, interruptions of supply, work stoppages, losses of permits or authorizations or acts of terrorism.
The physical effects of climate change and severe weather present risks to our operations.
The potential physical effects of climate change and severe weather on our operations are highly uncertain and depend upon the unique geographic and environmental factors present. We have systems in place to manage potential acute physical risks, including those that may be caused by climate change, but if any such events were to occur, they could have an adverse effect on our assets and operations. Examples of potential physical risks include floods, hurricane-force winds, wildfires, freezing temperatures and snowstorms. We have incurred, and will continue to incur, costs to protect our assets from physical risks, and to employ processes, to the extent available, to mitigate such risks.
Any extreme weather events may disrupt the ability to operate our facilities or to transport crude oil, refined petroleum or petrochemical and plastics products in these areas. In addition, substantial weather-related conditions could impact our relationships and arrangements with our major customers and suppliers by materially affecting the normal flow of crude oil and refined products. For example, severe weather events could damage transportation infrastructures and lead to interruptions of our operations, including our ability to deliver our products, or increases in costs to receive crude oil. During February 2021, we experienced a severe weather event ("Winter Storm Uri") which temporarily impacted operations at all of our refineries. Due to the extreme freezing conditions, we experienced reduced throughputs at our refineries as there was a disruption in the crude supply, as well as damages to various units at our refineries requiring additional operating and capital expenditures. For additional information, refer to Note 14 - Commitments and Contingencies in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. Extended periods of such disruption could have an adverse effect on our results of operations. We could also incur substantial costs to prevent or repair damage to these facilities. Finally, depending on the severity and duration of any extreme weather events or climate conditions, our operations may need to be modified and material costs incurred, which could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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Our operations are subject to business interruptions and casualty losses. Failure to manage risks associated with business interruptions and casualty losses could adversely impact our operations, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
Our refining and logistics operations are subject to significant hazards and risks inherent in transporting, storing and processing crude oil and intermediate and finished petroleum products. These hazards and risks include, but are not limited to, natural or weather-related disasters, fires, explosions, pipeline ruptures and spills, trucking accidents, train derailments, third-party interference, mechanical failure of equipment and other events beyond our control. The occurrence of any of these events could result in production and distribution difficulties and disruptions, personal injury or death, environmental pollution and other damage to our properties and the properties of others.
If any facility were to experience an interruption in operations, earnings from the facility could be materially adversely affected (to the extent not recoverable through insurance, if insured) because of lost production and repair costs. A significant interruption in one or more of our facilities could also lead to increased volatility in prices for feedstocks and refined products and could increase instability in the financial and insurance markets, making it more difficult for us to access capital and to obtain insurance coverage that we consider adequate. For example, in February 2021, our El Dorado refinery experienced a fire in its Penex unit and in November 2022, our Big Spring refinery experienced a fire in its diesel hydrotreater unit. For additional information, refer to Note 14 - Commitments and Contingencies in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
Because of these inherent dangers, our refining and logistics operations are subject to various laws and regulations relating to occupational health and safety, process and operating safety, environmental protection and transportation safety. Continued efforts to comply with applicable laws and regulations related to health, safety and the environment, or a finding of non-compliance with current regulations, could result in additional capital expenditures or operating expenses, as well as fines and penalties.
In addition, our refineries, pipelines and terminals are located in populated areas and any release of hazardous material, or catastrophic event, could affect our employees and contractors, as well as persons and property outside our property. Our pipelines, trucks and rail cars carry flammable and toxic materials on public railways and roads and across populated and/or environmentally sensitive areas and waterways that could be severely impacted in the event of a release. An accident could result in significant personal injuries and/or cause a release that results in damage to occupied areas, as well as damage to natural resources. It could also affect deliveries of crude oil to our refineries, resulting in a curtailment of operations. The costs to remediate such an accidental release and address other potential liabilities, as well as the costs associated with any interruption of operations, could be substantial. Although we maintain significant insurance coverage for such events, it may not cover all potential losses or liabilities.
In the event that personal injuries or deaths result from such events, or there are natural resource damages, we would likely incur substantial legal costs and liabilities. The extent of these costs and liabilities could exceed the limits of our available insurance. As a result, any such event could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
There are certain environmental hazards and risks inherent in our operations that could adversely affect those operations and our financial results.
The operation of refineries, pipelines, terminals and vessels is inherently subject to the risks of spills, discharges or other inadvertent releases of petroleum or hazardous substances. When these events occur, in connection with any of our refineries, pipelines or refined petroleum products terminals, or in connection with any facilities that receive our wastes or byproducts for treatment or disposal, we have in the past and could in the future be liable for costs and penalties associated with their remediation under federal, state, local and international environmental laws or common law, as well as for property damage to third parties caused by contamination from releases and spills.
The costs, scope, timelines and benefits of our refining projects may deviate significantly from our original plans and estimates.
We may experience unanticipated increases in the cost, scope and completion time for our improvement, maintenance and repair projects at our refineries. Refinery projects are generally initiated to increase the yields of higher-value products, increase our ability to process a variety of crude oil, increase production capacity, meet new regulatory requirements or maintain the safe and reliable operations of our existing assets. Equipment that we require to complete these projects may be unavailable to us at expected costs or within expected time periods. Additionally, employee or contractor labor expense may exceed our expectations. Due to these or other factors beyond our control, we may be unable to complete these projects within anticipated cost parameters and timelines.
In addition, the benefits we realize from completed projects may take longer to achieve and/or be less than we anticipated. Large-scale capital projects are typically undertaken in anticipation of achieving an acceptable level of return on the capital to be employed in the project. We base these forecasted project economics on our best estimate of future market conditions that are not within our control. Most large-scale projects take many years to complete, and during this multi-year period, market and other business conditions can change from those we forecast. Our inability to complete, and/or realize the benefits of refinery projects in a cost-efficient and timely manner, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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We depend upon our logistics segment for a substantial portion of the crude oil supply and refined product distribution networks that serve our Tyler, Big Spring and El Dorado refineries.
Our logistics segment consists of Delek Logistics, a publicly-traded master limited partnership, and our consolidated financial statements include its consolidated financial results. As of December 31, 2025, we owned a 63.3% limited partner interest in Delek Logistics, consisting of 33,868,203 common limited partner units and the non-economic general partner interest. Delek Logistics operates a system of crude oil and refined product pipelines, distribution terminals and tankage in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. Delek Logistics generates revenues by charging tariffs for transporting crude oil and refined products through its pipelines, by leasing pipeline capacity to third parties, by charging fees for terminalling refined products and other hydrocarbons and storing and providing other services at its terminals.
Our Tyler, El Dorado and Big Spring refineries are substantially dependent upon Delek Logistics' assets and services under several long-term pipeline and terminal, tankage and throughput agreements expiring in 2026 through 2036. Delek Logistics is subject to its own operating and regulatory risks, including, but not limited to:
• its reliance on significant customers, including us;
• macroeconomic factors, such as commodity price volatility that could affect its customers' utilization of its assets;
• its reliance on us for near-term growth;
• sufficiency of cash flow for required distributions;
• counterparty risks, such as creditworthiness and force majeure;
• competition from third-party pipelines and terminals and other competitors in the transportation and marketing industries;
• environmental regulations;
• successful integration of acquired businesses;
• operational hazards and risks;
• pipeline tariff regulations;
• limitations on additional borrowings and other restrictions in its debt agreements; and
• other financial, operational and legal risks.
The occurrence of any of these factors could directly or indirectly affect Delek Logistics' financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. Because Delek Logistics is our consolidated subsidiary, the occurrence of any of these risks could also affect our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. Additionally, if any of these risks affect Delek Logistics' viability, its ability to serve our supply and distribution needs may be jeopardized.
For additional information about Delek Logistics, see "Logistics Segment" under Item 1 & 2. Business and Properties, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Interruptions or limitations in the supply and delivery of crude oil, or the supply and distribution of refined products, may negatively affect our refining operations and inhibit the growth of our refining operations.
We rely on Delek Logistics and third-party transportation systems for the delivery of crude oil to our refineries. We could experience an interruption or reduction of supply and delivery, or an increased cost of receiving crude oil, if the ability of these systems to transport crude oil is disrupted because of accidents, adverse weather conditions, governmental regulation, terrorism, maintenance or failure of pipelines or other delivery systems, other third-party action or other events beyond our control. The unavailability for our use, for a prolonged period of time, of any system of delivery of crude oil could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Pipeline suspensions like these could require us to operate at reduced throughput rates.
Moreover, interruptions in delivery or limitations in delivery capacity may not allow our refining operations to draw sufficient crude oil to support current refinery production or increases in refining output. In order to maintain or materially increase refining output, existing crude delivery systems may require upgrades or supplementation, which may require substantial additional capital expenditures.
In addition, the El Dorado, Big Spring and Krotz Springs refineries distribute most of their light product production through a third-party pipeline system. An interruption to, or change in, the operation of the third-party pipeline system may result in a material restriction to our distribution channels. Because demand in the local markets is limited, a material restriction to each of the refinery's distribution channels may cause us to reduce production and may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We could experience an interruption or reduction of supply or delivery of refined products if our suppliers partially or completely ceased operations, temporarily or permanently. The ability of these refineries and our suppliers to supply refined products to us could be temporarily disrupted by anticipated events, such as scheduled upgrades or maintenance, as well as events beyond their control, such as unscheduled maintenance, fires, floods, storms, explosions, power outages, accidents, acts of terrorism or other catastrophic events, labor difficulties and work stoppages, governmental or private party litigation, or legislation or regulation that adversely impacts refinery operations. In addition, any reduction in capacity of other pipelines that connect with our suppliers' pipelines or our pipelines due to testing, line repair, reduced operating pressures, or other causes could result in reduced volumes of refined product supplied to our logistics segment's West Texas terminals. A reduction in the volume of refined products supplied to our West Texas terminals could adversely affect our sales and earnings.
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We are subject to risks associated with significant investments in the Permian Basin.
We and our joint ventures have made and are continuing to make significant investments in infrastructure to gather crude oil from the Permian Basin in West Texas. Similar investments have been made and additional investments may be made in the future by us, our competitors or by new entrants to the markets we serve. The success of these and similar projects largely relies on the realization of anticipated market demand and growth in production in the Permian Basin. These projects typically require significant development periods, during which time demand for such infrastructure may change, production in the Permian Basin may decrease, or additional investments by competitors may be made. Lower production in the Permian Basin, or further investments by us or others in new pipelines, storage or dock capacity could result in capacity that exceeds demand, which could reduce the utilization of our gathering system and midstream assets and the related services or the prices we are able to charge for those services. There are several projects currently underway that are expected to increase pipeline capacity from the Permian Basin beyond current production. This excess capacity could decrease the differential between the Permian and end markets, resulting in a highly competitive environment for transportation services and reducing the rates for those services. When infrastructure investments in the markets we serve result in capacity that exceeds the demand in those markets, our facilities or investments could be underutilized, and rates could be unfavorably impacted, which could materially adversely affect our results of operations, financial position or cash flows, as well as our ability to pay cash distributions.
We have made investments in joint ventures which subject us to additional risks, over which we do not have full control and which have unique risks.
We have made investments in several joint ventures, and we may enter into other joint venture arrangements in the future. Generally, we have limited control over the activities of the joint venture, including the cash distribution policies of each of the joint ventures. We also have financial obligations related to our joint venture investments, some of which may be contingent on the activities of the joint ventures and the abilities of the joint ventures to obtain their own financing for their activities. Construction delays, cost increases, changes in market conditions, and other factors may result in a change in our expectations for the results of our investments in these joint ventures, and may require additional contributions from us to a joint venture.
Additionally, our joint venture partners may not always share our goals and objectives. Differences in views among the partners may result in delayed decisions or failures to agree on major matters, such as large expenditures or contractual commitments, the construction of assets or the borrowing of money, among others. Delay or failure to agree may prevent action with respect to such matters, even though such action may not serve our best interest or that of the joint venture. Accordingly, delayed decisions and disagreements could adversely affect the business and operations of the joint ventures and, in turn, our business and operations. From time to time, our joint ventures may be involved in disputes or legal proceedings which may negatively affect our investments. Accordingly, any such occurrences could adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.
General economic conditions may adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition.
Economic slowdowns may have serious negative consequences for our business and operating results, because our performance is subject to domestic economic conditions and their impact on levels of consumer spending. Some of the factors affecting consumer spending include general economic conditions, unemployment, consumer debt, inflation, reductions in net worth based on declines in equity markets and residential real estate values, adverse developments in mortgage markets, taxation, energy prices, interest rates, consumer confidence and other macroeconomic factors. Political instability and global health crises can also impact the global economy and decrease worldwide demand for oil and refined products. During a period of economic weakness or uncertainty, current or potential customers may travel less, reduce or defer purchases, go out of business or have insufficient funds to buy or pay for our products and services. Moreover, a financial market crisis may have a material adverse impact on financial institutions and limit access to capital and credit. This could, among other things, make it more difficult for us to obtain (or increase our cost of obtaining) capital and financing and reduce our reliance on the use of RINs financing arrangements and funded letters of credit for our operations. Our access to additional capital may not be available on terms acceptable to us or at all.
Also, because all of our operating refineries are located in the Gulf Coast Region, we primarily market our refined products in a relatively limited geographic area. As a result, we are more susceptible to regional economic conditions compared to our more geographically diversified competitors, and any unforeseen events or circumstances that affect the Gulf Coast Region could also materially and adversely affect our revenues and cash flows. The primary factors include, among other things, changes in the economy, weather conditions, demographics and population, increased supply of refined products from competitors and reductions in the supply of crude oil or other feedstocks. In the event of a shift in the supply/demand balance in the Gulf Coast Region due to changes in the local economy, an increase in aggregate refining capacity or other reasons, resulting in supply exceeding the demand in the region, our refineries may have to deliver refined products to more customers outside of the Gulf Coast Region and thus incur considerably higher transportation costs, resulting in lower refining margins, if any.
Additionally, general economic conditions in West Texas are highly dependent upon the price of crude oil. When crude oil prices exceed certain dollar per barrel thresholds, demand for people and equipment to support drilling and completion activities for the production of crude oil is robust, which supports overall economic health of the region. If crude oil prices fall below certain dollar per barrel thresholds, economic activity in the region may slow down, which could have a material adverse impact on the profitability of our business in West Texas.
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We may be adversely affected by the effects of inflation.
Inflation has the potential to adversely affect our liquidity, business, financial condition and results of operations by increasing our overall cost structure, particularly if we are unable to achieve commensurate increases in the prices we charge our customers. The existence of inflation in the economy has the potential to result in higher interest rates and capital costs, supply shortages, increased costs of labor, weakening exchange rates and other similar effects. As a result of inflation, we have experienced and may continue to experience, increases in the costs of feedstocks, labor, materials, and other inputs. Although we may take measures to mitigate the impact of this inflation through pricing actions and efficiency gains, if these measures are not effective our business, financial condition, results of operations and liquidity could be materially adversely affected. Even if such measures are effective, there could be a difference between the timing of when these beneficial actions impact our results of operations and when the cost inflation is incurred. Additionally, the pricing actions we take could result in a decrease in market share.
Disruption of our supply chain could adversely impact our ability to refine, manufacture, transport and sell our products.
We and our suppliers use multiple forms of transportation to bring our products to market. Disruption to the timely supply of raw materials, parts, other inputs and finished goods or increases in the cost of transportation services, including due to general inflationary pressures, cost of fuel and labor, labor disputes or shortages, governmental regulation or governmental restrictions limiting specific forms of transportation, could have an adverse effect on our ability to refine, manufacture, transport and sell our products, which would adversely affect our liquidity, business, financial condition and results of operations.
In 2025, the U.S. announced the imposition of tariffs on imports from several U.S. trade partners and could announce additional tariffs in future periods. There is significant uncertainty as to the duration of these and any further tariffs, and the impacts these tariffs and any corresponding retaliatory tariffs will have on us, our suppliers and our customers. The financial impacts of the tariffs on our results of operations and financial condition remain uncertain at the time of filing this report.
Our business could be adversely impacted as a result of our failure to retain or attract key talent.
Our failure to retain or attract key talent with specific capabilities could interfere with our ability to execute on strategic transformation implementations, and could diminish our ability to execute and integrate strategic transactions. As a result, our ability to remain competitive in our industry sector and/or to operate effectively could be adversely impacted.
Evolving employee preferences and values, inflationary pressures, shortages in the labor market, increased employee turnover, and changes in the availability of workers could make it more difficult to retain or attract key talent and could increase labor costs, which could have a material adverse effect on our liquidity, business, financial condition and results of operations.
Additionally, our labor costs include the cost of providing employee benefits. Inflation, and other factors, could increase the costs of providing such benefits. Failure, or any perceived failure to provide such benefits, could impact our competitive position, which could in turn negatively affect our liquidity, business, financial condition and results of operations.
We have capital needs to finance our crude oil and refined products inventory for which our internally generated cash flows or other sources of liquidity may not be adequate.
In December 2022, we entered into an Inventory Intermediation Agreement with Citi (the "Inventory Intermediation Agreement") in which Citi purchases a substantial portion of the crude oil and refined products for three of our refineries' inventory at market prices. We are obligated to repurchase from Citi all volumes upon expiration or earlier termination of this agreement, which may have a material adverse impact on our liquidity, working capital and financial condition. Termination of our Inventory Intermediation Agreement with Citi, which is scheduled to expire in January 2028, would require us to finance the products covered by the agreement at terms that may not be favorable. The availability of capital will depend upon several factors, some of which are beyond our control. In addition, if we are not able to sell our finished products to creditworthy customers, then we may be subject to delays in the collection of our accounts receivable and exposure to additional credit risk. If we cannot obtain sufficient capital, when the need arises, then we may be unable to execute our long-term operating strategy.
Our insurance policies historically do not cover all losses, costs or liabilities that we may experience, and insurance companies that currently insure companies in the energy industry may cease to do so or substantially increase premiums.
We carry property, business interruption, pollution, casualty and cyber insurance, but we do not maintain insurance coverage against all potential losses, costs or liabilities. We could suffer losses for uninsurable, or uninsured, risks or in amounts in excess of existing insurance coverage. In addition, we purchase insurance programs with large self-insured retentions and large deductibles. For example, we retain a short period of our business interruption losses. Therefore, a significant part, or all, of a business interruption loss or other types of loss could be retained by us. The occurrence of a loss that is retained by us, or not fully covered by insurance, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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The energy industry is highly capital intensive, and the entire or partial loss of individual facilities or multiple facilities can result in significant costs to both energy industry companies, such as us, and their insurance carriers. Events which could result in such losses, and in some cases already have impacted our operations, include unplanned maintenance requirements, catastrophic events such as fire, mechanical breakdown, explosion, or contamination, natural disasters and orders issued by environmental authorities. Historically, large energy industry claims have resulted in significant increases in the level of premium costs and deductible periods for participants in the energy industry. For example, hurricanes have caused significant damage to energy companies operating along the Gulf Coast, in addition to numerous oil and gas production facilities and pipelines in that region. Insurance companies that have historically participated in underwriting energy-related risks may discontinue that practice, may reduce the insurance capacity they are willing to offer or demand significantly higher premiums or deductible periods to cover these risks. If we experience significant claims, or if there are significant changes in the number, or financial solvency, of insurance underwriters available to the energy industry occur, or if other adverse conditions over which we have no control prevail in the insurance market, we may be unable to obtain and maintain adequate insurance at reasonable cost.
In addition, we cannot assure that our insurers will renew our insurance coverage on acceptable terms, if at all, or that we will be able to arrange for adequate alternative coverage in the event of non-renewal. As a result of market conditions and our claims history, premiums and deductibles for our insurance policies have increased, and some of our insurers have declined to renew policies. In the future, certain insurance could become unavailable or available only for reduced amounts of coverage, or we may determine that premium costs, in our judgment, do not justify such expenditures and instead increase our self-insurance. The unavailability of full insurance coverage to cover events in which we suffer significant losses could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Our ongoing study of strategic options to unlock and enhance stockholder value poses additional risks to our business.
Our board of directors, with the assistance of outside advisors, is evaluating a wide range of strategies for the Company to unlock and enhance stockholder value. This process, including any uncertainty created by this process, involves a number of risks which could impact our business and our stockholders, including the following:
• significant fluctuations in our stock price could occur in response to developments relating to the process or market speculation regarding any such developments;
• we may encounter difficulties in hiring, retaining and motivating key personnel during this process or as a result of uncertainties generated by this process or any developments or actions relating to it;
• we may incur substantial increases in general and administrative expense associated with increased legal fees and the need to retain and compensate third-party advisors; and
• we may experience difficulties in preserving the commercially sensitive information that may need to be disclosed to third parties during this process or in connection with an assessment of our strategic alternatives.
The review process also requires significant time and attention from management, which could distract them from other tasks in operating our business or otherwise disrupt our business. Such disruptions could cause concern to our customers, strategic partners or other constituencies and may have a material impact on our business and operating results and volatility in our share price.
There can be no assurance that this process will result in the pursuit or consummation of any potential transaction or strategy, or that any such potential transaction or strategy, if implemented, will provide greater value to our stockholders than that reflected in the price of our common stock. Any outcome of this process would be dependent upon a number of factors that may be beyond our control, including, among other things, market conditions, industry trends, regulatory approvals, and the availability of financing on reasonable terms. The occurrence of any one or more of the above risks could have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
We may not be able to successfully execute our strategy of growth through acquisitions.
A significant part of our growth strategy is to acquire assets, such as refineries, pipelines, and terminals that complement our existing assets and/or broaden our geographic presence. If attractive opportunities arise, we may also acquire assets in new lines of business that are complementary to our existing businesses. In the past we have acquired refineries, and we have developed our logistics segment through the acquisition of transportation, marketing and water assets. We expect to continue to acquire assets that complement our existing assets and/or broaden our geographic presence as a major element of our growth strategy. However, the occurrence of any of the following factors could adversely affect our growth strategy:
• We may not be able to identify suitable acquisition candidates or acquire additional assets on favorable terms;
• We usually compete with others to acquire assets, which competition may increase, and any level of competition could result in decreased availability or increased prices for acquisition candidates;
• We may experience difficulty in anticipating the timing and availability of acquisition candidates;
• We may not be able to obtain the necessary financing, on favorable terms or at all, to finance any of our potential acquisitions; and
• As a public company, we are subject to reporting obligations, internal controls and other accounting requirements with respect to any business we acquire, which may prevent or negatively affect the valuation of some acquisitions we might otherwise deem favorable or increase our acquisition costs.
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Acquisitions involve risks that could cause our actual growth or operating results to differ adversely compared with our expectations.
Due to our emphasis on growth through acquisitions, we are particularly susceptible to transactional risks that could cause our actual growth or operating results to differ adversely compared with our expectations. For example:
• during the acquisition process, we may fail, or be unable, to discover some of the liabilities of companies or businesses that we acquire;
• we may assume contracts or other obligations in connection with particular acquisitions on terms that are less favorable or desirable than the terms that we would expect to obtain if we negotiated the contracts or other obligations directly;
• we may fail to successfully integrate or manage acquired assets;
• acquired assets may not perform as we expect, or we may not be able to obtain the cost savings and financial improvements we anticipate;
• acquisitions may require us to incur additional debt or issue additional equity;
• acquired assets may suffer a diminishment in fair value as a result of which we may need to record a write-down or impairment;
• we may fail to grow our existing systems, financial controls, information systems, management resources and human resources in a manner that effectively supports our growth;
• to the extent that we acquire assets in new lines of business, we may become subject to additional regulatory requirements and additional risks that are characteristic or typical of these lines of business; and
• to the extent that we acquire equity interests in entities that control assets (rather than acquiring the assets directly), we may become subject to liabilities that predate our ownership and control of the assets.
The occurrence of any of these factors could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations.
We may not be successful in our cost sharing agreement with the DOE’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations.
The Department of Energy's Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations may cancel the cost sharing agreement with the Delek. Delek or its technology partners may fail or be unable to complete the project, capture the expected amount of carbon dioxide per year, reduce health-harming pollutants or realize any of the other expected benefits from such an agreement or the project.
Our future results will suffer if we do not effectively manage our expanded operations.
The size and scope of operations of our business have increased. In addition, we may continue to expand our size and operations through additional acquisitions or other strategic transactions. Our future success depends, in part, upon our ability to manage our expanded business, which may pose substantial challenges for management, including challenges related to the management and monitoring of new operations including, without limitation, integrating new operations with those of our existing business, managing the increased scope or geographic diversity of our expanded business, and associated increased costs and complexity. There can be no assurance that we will be successful, or that we will realize the expected economies of scale, synergies and other benefits anticipated from any additional acquisitions or strategic transactions.
We may incur significant costs and liabilities with respect to investigation and remediation of environmental conditions at our facilities.
Prior to our purchase of our refineries, pipelines, terminals and other facilities, the previous owners had been engaged for many years in the investigation and remediation of hydrocarbons and other materials which contaminated soil and groundwater. Upon purchase of the facilities, we became responsible and liable for certain costs associated with the continued investigation and remediation of known and unknown impacted areas at the facilities. In the future, it may be necessary to conduct further assessments and remediation efforts at impacted areas at our facilities and elsewhere. In addition, we have identified and self-reported certain other environmental matters subsequent to our purchase of our facilities.
Based upon environmental evaluations performed internally and by third parties, we recorded and periodically update environmental liabilities and accrued amounts we believe are sufficient to complete remediation. We expect remediation at some properties to continue for the foreseeable future. The need to make future expenditures for these purposes that exceed the amounts for which we estimated and accrued could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
In addition, Alon indemnified certain parties, to which they sold assets, for costs and liabilities that may be incurred as a result of environmental conditions existing at the time of such sales. As a result of our purchase of Alon, if we are forced to incur costs or pay liabilities in connection with these indemnification obligations, such costs and payments could be significant.
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In the future, we may incur substantial expenditures for investigation or remediation of contamination that has not been discovered at our current or former locations or locations that we may acquire, or at third party sites where hazardous substances from these locations may have been treated or disposed. Our handling and storage of petroleum and hazardous substances may lead to additional contamination at our facilities or along our pipelines and at facilities to which we send or have sent wastes or by-products for treatment or disposal. In addition, new legal requirements, new interpretations of existing legal requirements, increased legislative activity and governmental enforcement and other developments could require us to make additional unforeseen expenditures. As a result, we may be subject to additional investigation and remediation costs, governmental penalties and third-party suits alleging personal injury and property damage. Liabilities for future remediation costs are recorded when environmental assessments and/or remedial efforts are probable and costs can be reasonably estimated as material. Other than for assessments, the timing and magnitude of these accruals generally are based on the completion of investigations or other studies or a commitment to a formal plan of action.
We could incur substantial costs or disruptions in our business if we cannot obtain or maintain necessary permits and authorizations or otherwise comply with health, safety, environmental and other laws and regulations.
Our operations require numerous permits and authorizations under various laws and regulations. These authorizations and permits are subject to revocation, renewal or modification, and can require operational changes to limit impacts or potential impacts on the environment and/or health and safety. A violation of authorization or permit conditions or other legal or regulatory requirements could result in substantial fines, criminal sanctions, permit revocations, injunctions and/or facility shutdowns. In addition, major modifications of our operations could require modifications to our existing permits or upgrades to our existing pollution control equipment. Any, or all, of these matters could have a negative effect on our business, results of operations and cash flows.
Our Tyler refinery primarily distributes refined petroleum products via truck or rail. We do not have the ability to distribute these products into markets outside our local market via pipeline.
Unlike most refineries, the Tyler refinery currently has limited ability to distribute refined products outside its local market in northeast Texas due to a lack of pipeline assets connecting the facility to other markets. While, in recent years, we have expanded our refined product distribution capabilities in northeast Texas through the use of transloading facilities enabling the shipment of products by rail to distant markets, including Mexico and through our acquisition of refined product terminals in Big Sandy and Mt. Pleasant, Texas, this limited ability may limit the refinery’s ability to increase the production of petroleum products, attract new customers for its refined petroleum products or increase sales of products from the refinery. In addition, if demand for petroleum products diminishes in northeast Texas, the refinery may be required to reduce production levels and our financial results may be adversely affected.
An increase in competition, and/or reduction in demand in the markets in which we purchase feedstocks and sell our refined products, could increase our costs and/or lower prices and adversely affect our sales and profitability.
Certain of our refineries operate in localized or niche markets. If competitors commence operations within these niche markets, we could lose our niche market advantage, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Additionally, where feedstocks are purchased in a localized market, disruptions in supply channels could significantly impact our ability to meet production demands in those facilities.
In addition, the maintenance, or replacement, of our existing customers depends on a number of factors outside of our control, including increased competition from other suppliers and demand for refined products in the markets we serve. The market for distribution of wholesale motor fuel is highly competitive and fragmented. Some of our competitors have significantly greater resources and name recognition than us. The loss of major customers, or a reduction in amounts purchased by major customers, for any reason including, but not limited to, a desire to purchase competing products with lower emissions, could have a material adverse effect on us to the extent that we are not able to correspondingly increase sales to other purchasers.
Compliance with and changes in tax laws could adversely affect our performance.
We are subject to extensive tax liabilities, including federal and state income taxes and transactional taxes, such as excise, sales/use, payroll, franchise, withholding and ad valorem taxes. New tax laws and regulations, and changes in existing tax laws and regulations, are continuously being enacted or proposed that could result in increased expenditures for tax liabilities in the future. Certain of these liabilities are subject to periodic audits by the respective taxing authority, which could increase or otherwise alter our tax liabilities. Though we believe we have applied reasonable interpretations and assumptions in determining our tax liabilities, it is possible that the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") could issue subsequent guidance or take positions on audit that differ from our prior interpretations and assumptions, which could adversely impact our cash tax liabilities, results of operations, and financial condition. Subsequent changes to our tax liabilities as a result of these audits may also subject us to interest and penalties, and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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For example, the tax treatment of our logistics segment depends on its status as a partnership for federal income tax purposes. If a change in law, our failure to comply with existing law or other factors were to cause our logistics segment to be treated as a corporation for federal income tax purposes, it would become subject to entity-level taxation. As a result, our logistics segment would pay federal income tax on all of its taxable income at regular corporate income tax rates, would likely pay additional state and local income taxes at varying rates, and distributions to unitholders, including us, would be generally treated as taxable dividends from a corporation. In such case, the logistics segment would likely experience a material reduction in its anticipated cash flow and after-tax return to its unitholders, and we would likely experience a substantial reduction in its value.
Adverse weather conditions or other unforeseen developments could damage our facilities, reduce demand for our products and services and impair our ability to produce and deliver refined petroleum products.
The regions in which we operate are susceptible to severe storms, including hurricanes, thunderstorms, tornadoes, floods, extended periods of rain, ice storms and snow, all of which we have experienced in the past few years. In addition, for a variety of reasons, many members of the scientific community believe that climate changes are occurring that could have significant physical effects, such as increased frequency and severity of storms, droughts and floods and other climatic events. If any such effects were to occur, they could have an adverse effect on our assets and operations.
Inclement weather conditions, earthquakes or other unforeseen developments could damage our facilities, interrupt production, adversely impact consumer behavior, travel or interrupt or impede our ability to operate our locations. If such conditions prevail near our refineries, they could interrupt or undermine our ability to produce and transport products from our refineries and receive and distribute products at our terminals. Regional occurrences, such as energy shortages or increases in energy prices, fires and other natural disasters, could also hurt our business. The occurrence of any of these developments could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Our operating results are seasonal and generally lower in the first and fourth quarters of the year for our refining and logistics segments. We depend on favorable weather conditions in the spring and summer months.
Demand for gasoline and asphalt products are generally higher during the summer months than during the winter months due to seasonal increases in motor vehicle traffic and road and home construction. Varying vapor pressure requirements between the summer and winter months also tighten summer gasoline supply. As a result, the operating results of our refining segment and logistics segment are generally lower for the first and fourth quarters of each year.
A substantial portion of the workforce at our refineries is unionized, and we may face labor disruptions that would interfere with our operations.
As of December 31, 2025, approximately 26.6% of our employees were represented by unions and/or covered by a collective bargaining agreement. None of our employees in our logistics segment or in our corporate office are represented by a union. We consider our relations with our employees to be satisfactory. Although the collective bargaining agreements contain provisions to discourage strikes or work stoppages, we cannot assure that strikes or work stoppages will not occur. A strike or work stoppage could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We rely on information technology in our operations, and any material failure, inadequacy, interruption, cyber-attack or security failure of that technology could harm our business.
We rely on information technology across our operations, including the control of our refinery processes, monitoring the movement of petroleum through our pipelines and terminals, and various other processes and transactions. We utilize information technology systems and controls, some of which include embedded artificial intelligence ("AI"), throughout our operations to capture accounting, technical and regulatory data for subsequent archiving, analysis and reporting. Disruption, failure, or cyber security breaches affecting or targeting our computer and telecommunications, our infrastructure, or the infrastructure of our cloud-based IT service providers may materially impact our business and operations. An undetected failure of these systems, because of power loss, unsuccessful transition to upgraded or replacement systems, unauthorized access or other cyber breach or attack could result in disruption to our business operations, access to or disclosure or loss of data and/or proprietary information, personal injuries and environmental damage, which could have an adverse effect on our business, reputation, and effectiveness. We could also be subject to resulting investigation and remediation costs as well as regulatory enforcement of private litigation and related costs, which could have a material adverse impact on our cash flow and results of operations.
In recent years, several companies have experienced data breaches, resulting in the exposure of sensitive customer data. A breach could also originate from, or compromise, our customers' and vendors' or other third-party networks outside of our control. Any compromise or breach of our information and payment technology systems could cause interruptions in our operations, damage our reputation, reduce our customers' willingness to visit our sites and conduct business with them, or expose us to litigation from customers. In addition, a compromise of our internal data network at any of our refining or terminal locations may have disruptive impacts. These disruptions could range from inconvenience in accessing business information to a disruption in our refining operations.
The increase in companies and individuals working remotely has increased the frequency and scope of cyber-attacks and the risk of potential cybersecurity incidents, both deliberate attacks and unintentional events. Despite our security measures, we experience attempts by external
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parties to penetrate and attack our networks and systems. Although such attempts to date have not, to our knowledge, resulted in any material breaches, disruptions, or loss of business-critical information, our systems and procedures for protecting against such attacks and mitigating such risks may prove to be insufficient in the future and such attacks could have an adverse impact on our business and operations, including damage to our reputation and competitiveness, remediation costs, litigation or regulatory actions. In addition, as technologies evolve, and cyber-attacks become more sophisticated, we may incur significant costs to upgrade or enhance our security measures to protect against such attacks and we may face difficulties in fully anticipating or implementing adequate preventive measures or mitigating potential harm. Additionally, our use of AI software may create additional risks related to the unintentional disclosure of proprietary, confidential, personal or otherwise sensitive information. We could also be liable under laws that protect the privacy of personal information, subject to regulatory penalties, experience damage to our reputation or a loss of consumer confidence, or incur additional costs for remediation and modification or enhancement of our information systems to prevent future occurrences, all of which could adversely affect our reputation, business, operations or financial results.
If we lose any of our key personnel, our ability to manage our business and continue our growth could be negatively impacted.
Our future performance depends to a significant degree upon the continued contributions of our senior management team and key technical personnel. We do not currently maintain key person life insurance policies for any of our senior management team. The loss or unavailability to us of any member of our senior management team or a key technical employee could significantly harm us. We face competition for these professionals from our competitors, our customers and other companies operating in our industry. To the extent that the services of members of our senior management team and key technical personnel would be unavailable to us for any reason, we would be required to hire other personnel to manage and operate our company and to develop our products and technology. We cannot assure that we would be able to locate or employ such qualified personnel on acceptable terms or at all.
If we are, or become, a U.S. real property holding corporation, special tax rules may apply to a sale, exchange or other disposition of common stock, and non-U.S. holders may be less inclined to invest in our stock, as they may be subject to U.S. federal income tax in certain situations.
A non-U.S. holder of our common stock may be subject to U.S. federal income tax with respect to gain recognized on the sale, exchange or other disposition of our common stock if we are, or were, a "U.S. real property holding corporation" ("USRPHC") at any time during the shorter of the five-year period ending on the date of the sale or other disposition and the period such non-U.S. holder held our common stock (the shorter period referred to as the "lookback period"). In general, we would be a USRPHC if the fair market value of our "U.S. real property interests," as such term is defined for U.S. federal income tax purposes, equals or exceeds 50% of the sum of the fair market value of our worldwide real property interests and our other assets used or held for use in a trade or business. The test for determining USRPHC status is applied on certain specific determination dates and is dependent upon a number of factors, some of which are beyond our control (including, for example, fluctuations in the value of our assets). If we are or become a USRPHC, so long as our common stock is regularly traded on an established securities market such as the NYSE, only a non-U.S. holder who, actually or constructively, holds or held during the lookback period more than five percent of our common stock will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on the disposition of our common stock.
Our business requires us to make significant capital expenditures and to maintain and improve our refineries and logistics assets.
Our business is capital intensive and asset heavy. Our refineries and logistics assets, including pipelines, distribution terminals, tractors, trailers and tankage require us to make significant capital expenditures and to incur substantial costs maintaining and improving such assets. Our cash from operations and existing financing arrangements may not be sufficient to fund our capital requirements and we may not be able to obtain additional financing on terms acceptable to us, or at all. Our inability to fund such capital expenditures, maintenance or improvements, or decision to cancel, delay or defer such projects, could increase the costs of repairing or replacing such assets (subject to reserved funds to cover certain of these costs), increase the costs or delays associated with turnaround activities in our refining segment and other maintenance, place us at a competitive disadvantage, increase the costs of insurance coverage and regulatory compliance, limit our ability to develop, market and sell new products and invest in new technologies, and decrease the amount of funds available for future acquisitions or cash available for distributions, all of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. At times in light of our operating results and liquidity needs, we have cancelled, delayed, or deferred certain capital expenditures, maintenance and improvements. Our need to incur costs associated with the commencement of such capital expenditures, maintenance, and improvements may be substantial and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Our business is subject to complex and evolving laws, regulations and security standards regarding privacy, cybersecurity and data protection. Many of these data protection laws are subject to change and uncertain interpretation, and could result in claims, changes to our business practices, monetary penalties, increased cost of operations or other harm to our business.
The constantly evolving regulatory and legislative environment surrounding data privacy and protection poses increasingly complex compliance challenges, and complying with such data protection laws could increase the costs and complexity of compliance. While we do not collect significant amounts of personal information from consumers, we do have personal information from our employees, job applicants and some business partners, such as contractors and distributors.
Any failure, whether real or perceived, by us to comply with applicable data protection laws could result in proceedings or actions against us by governmental entities or others, subject us to significant fines, penalties, judgments, and negative publicity, require us to change our business practices, increase the costs and complexity of compliance, and adversely affect our business. Our compliance with emerging privacy/security
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laws, as well as any associated inquiries or investigations or any other government actions related to these laws, may increase our operating costs.
In the second quarter of 2021, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s ("DHS") Transportation Security Administration (“TSA”) announced two new security directives. These directives require critical pipeline owners to comply with mandatory reporting measures, including, among other things, to appoint personnel, report confirmed and potential cybersecurity incidents to the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”) and provide vulnerability assessments. As legislation continues to develop and cyber incidents continue to evolve, we may be required to expend significant additional resources to respond to cyberattacks, to continue to modify or enhance our protective measures, or to detect, assess, investigate and remediate any critical infrastructure security vulnerabilities and report any cyber incidents to the applicable regulatory authorities. Any failure to remain in compliance with these government regulations may result in enforcement actions which may have a material adverse effect on our business and operations.
If our cost efficiency measures are not successful, we may become less competitive.
We continue to focus on minimizing operating expenses through cost improvements and simplification of our corporate structure. We may experience delays or unanticipated costs in implementing our cost efficiency plans, which could prevent the timely or full achievement of expected cost efficiencies and adversely affect our competitive position. If we are not able to meet our objectives, our profitability may be negatively impacted as a result. Furthermore, certain of these cost efficiency measures could have a negative impact on our operations, which would be expected to have an adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.
Risks Related to Ownership of Our Common Stock
The price of our common stock may fluctuate significantly, and you could lose all or part of your investment.
The market price of our common stock may be influenced by many factors, some of which may be beyond our control, including:
• our quarterly or annual earnings, or those of other companies in our industry;
• inaccuracies in, and changes to, our previously published quarterly or annual earnings;
• changes in accounting standards, policies, guidance, interpretations or principles;
• economic conditions within our industry, as well as general economic and stock market conditions;
• the failure of securities analysts to cover our common stock, or the cessation of such coverage;
• changes in financial estimates by securities analysts and the frequency and accuracy of such reports;
• future issuance or sales of our common stock;
• announcements by us or our competitors of significant contracts or acquisitions;
• sales of common stock by our senior officers or our affiliates; and
• the other factors described in these "Risk Factors."
In recent years, the stock market in general, and the market for energy companies in particular, has experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have often been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of those companies. This volatility has had a significant impact on the market price of securities issued by many companies, including companies in our industry. The trading price of Delek common stock has been volatile over the past three years. The changes often occur without any apparent regard to the operating performance of these companies, and these fluctuations could materially reduce our stock price.
Stockholder activism may negatively impact the price of our common stock.
Our stockholders may from time to time engage in proxy solicitations, advance stockholder proposals or otherwise attempt to effect changes or acquire control over us. Campaigns by stockholders to effect changes at publicly traded companies are sometimes led by investors seeking to increase short-term stockholder value through actions such as financial restructuring, increased debt, special dividends, stock repurchases or sales of assets or the entire company. Responding to proxy contests and other actions by activist stockholders can be costly and time-consuming, disrupting our operations and diverting the attention of our Board of Directors and senior management from the pursuit of business strategies. If individuals are elected or appointed to our Board of Directors who do not agree with our strategic plans, it may adversely affect the ability of our Board of Directors to function effectively and our ability to effectively and timely implement our strategic plans and create additional value for our stockholders. As a result, stockholder campaigns could adversely affect our results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
Any perceived uncertainties as to our future direction and control, our ability to execute on our strategy, or changes to the composition of our board of directors or senior management team arising from future proposals from stockholders could lead to the perception of a change in the direction of our business or instability which may be exploited by our competitors, result in the loss of potential business opportunities, and make it more difficult to pursue our strategic initiatives or attract and retain qualified personnel and business partners, any of which could have an adverse effect, which may be material, on our business and operating results. In addition, actions such as those described above could cause significant fluctuations in the trading prices of our common stock based on temporary or speculative market perceptions or other factors that do not necessarily reflect the underlying fundamentals and prospects of our business.
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Likewise, to the extent that we implement any proposals made by any of our shareholders, the resulting changes in our business, assets, results of operations and financial condition could be material and could have an impact, which may be material, on the market price of our common stock.
Future sales of shares of our common stock could depress the price of our common stock, and could result in substantial dilution to our stockholders.
We may sell securities in the public or private equity markets, regardless of our need for capital, and even when conditions are not otherwise favorable. The market price of our common stock could decline as a result of the introduction of a large number of shares of our common stock into the market or the perception that these sales could occur. Sales of a large number of shares of our common stock, or the possibility that these sales may occur, also might make it more difficult for us to sell equity securities in the future at a time and at a price that we deem appropriate.
Our stockholders will suffer dilution if we issue currently unissued shares of our stock or sell our treasury holdings in the future. Our stockholders will also suffer dilution as stock, restricted stock units, stock options, stock appreciation rights, warrants or other equity awards, whether currently outstanding or subsequently granted, are exercised.
We depend upon our subsidiaries for cash to meet our obligations and pay any dividends.
We are a holding company. Our subsidiaries conduct substantially all of our operations and own substantially all of our assets. Consequently, our cash flow and our ability to meet our obligations or pay dividends to our stockholders depend upon the cash flow of our subsidiaries and the payment of funds by our subsidiaries to us in the form of dividends, distributions, tax sharing payments or otherwise. Our subsidiaries' ability to make any payments will depend on many factors, including general economic conditions, their earnings, cash flows, the terms of any applicable credit facilities, tax considerations and legal restrictions.
We may be unable to pay future regular dividends in the anticipated amounts and frequency set forth herein.
We will only be able to pay regular dividends from our available cash on hand and funds received from our subsidiaries. Our ability to receive dividends and other cash payments from our subsidiaries may be restricted under the terms of any applicable credit facilities. For example, under the terms of their credit facilities, Delek Logistics and its subsidiaries are subject to certain customary covenants that limit their ability to, subject to certain exceptions as defined in their respective credit agreements, remit cash to, distribute assets to, or make investments in us as the parent company. Specifically, these covenants limit the payment, in the form of cash or other assets, of dividends or other cash payments to us. We are not obligated to declare or pay any dividend. Any future declaration, amount and payment of dividends will be at the sole discretion of our Board of Directors and will depend upon many factors, including our results of operations, financial condition, earnings, capital requirements, restrictions in our debt agreements and legal requirements. Although we currently intend to pay regular quarterly cash dividends on our common stock, we cannot provide any assurances that any regular dividends will be paid in the anticipated amounts and frequency set forth herein, if at all. As a result, if our Board of Directors does not declare or pay dividends, a shareholder may not receive any return on an investment in our common stock unless they sell our common stock for a price greater than that which they paid for it.
Provisions of Delaware law and our organizational documents may discourage takeovers and business combinations that our stockholders may consider in their best interests, which could negatively affect our stock price.
Provisions of Delaware law, our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and our Amended and Restated Bylaws may have the effect of delaying or preventing a change in control of our company or deterring tender offers for our common stock that other stockholders may consider in their best interests. For example, our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides that:
• stockholder actions may only be taken at annual or special meetings of stockholders;
• members of our Board of Directors can be removed with or without cause by a supermajority vote of stockholders;
• the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware is, with certain exceptions, the exclusive forum for certain legal actions;
• our bylaws, as may be in effect from time to time, can be amended only by a supermajority vote of stockholders; and
• certain provisions of our certificate of incorporation, as may be in effect from time to time, can be amended only by a supermajority vote of stockholders.
In addition, our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation authorizes us to issue up to 10.0 million shares of preferred stock in one or more different series, with terms to be fixed by our Board of Directors. Stockholder approval is not necessary to issue preferred stock in this manner. Issuance of these shares of preferred stock could have the effect of making it more difficult and more expensive for a person or group to acquire control of us and could effectively be used as an anti-takeover device. On the date of this report, no shares of our preferred stock are outstanding.
Finally, our Amended and Restated Bylaws provide for an advance notice procedure for stockholders to nominate director candidates for election or to bring business before an annual meeting of stockholders and require that special meetings of stockholders be called only by our chairman of the Board of Directors, president or secretary after written request of a majority of our Board of Directors. The advance notice provision requires disclosure of derivative positions, hedging transactions, short interests, rights to dividends and other similar positions of any stockholder proposing a director nomination, in order to promote full disclosure of such stockholder's economic interest in us.
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The anti-takeover provisions of Delaware law and provisions in our organizational documents may prevent our stockholders from receiving the benefit from any premium to the market price of our common stock offered by a bidder in a takeover context. Even in the absence of a takeover attempt, the existence of these provisions may adversely affect the prevailing market price of our common stock if they are viewed as discouraging takeover attempts in the future.
Financial Instrument and Credit Profile Risks
Changes in our credit profile could affect our relationships with our suppliers, which could have a material adverse effect on our liquidity and our ability to operate our refineries at full capacity.
Changes in our credit profile could affect the way crude oil, feedstock and refined product suppliers view our ability to make payments. As a result, suppliers could shorten the payment terms of their invoices with us, or require us to provide significant collateral to them that we do not currently provide. Due to the large dollar amounts and volume of our crude oil and other petroleum product purchases, as well as the historical volatility of crude oil pricing, any imposition by our suppliers of more burdensome payment terms, or collateral requirements, may have a material adverse effect on our liquidity and our ability to make payments to our suppliers. This, in turn, could cause us to be unable to operate our refineries at desired capacities. A failure to operate our refineries at desired capacities could adversely affect our profitability and cash flows.
Our commodity and interest rate derivative activity may limit potential gains, increase potential losses, result in earnings volatility and involve other risks.
At times, we enter into commodity derivative contracts to manage our price exposure to our inventory positions, future purchases of crude oil, ethanol and other feedstocks, future sales of refined products, manage our RINs exposure or to secure margins on future production. At times, we also enter into interest rate swap and cap agreements to manage our market exposure to changes in interest rates related to our floating rate borrowings. We expect to continue to enter into these types of transactions from time to time and have increased our use of commodity risk management activities in recent years.
While these transactions are intended to limit our exposure to the adverse effects of fluctuations in crude oil prices, refined products prices, RIN prices and interest rates, they may also limit our ability to benefit from favorable changes in market conditions, and may subject us to period-by-period earnings volatility in the instances where we do not seek hedge accounting for these transactions. Further, depending on the volume of commodity derivative activity as compared to our actual use of crude oil, production of refined products or total RINs exposure, our risk management activity may only partially limit our exposure to market volatility. Also, in connection with such derivative transactions, we may be required to make cash payments or provide letters of credit to maintain margin accounts and to settle the contracts at their value upon termination. Finally, this activity exposes us to potential risk of counterparties to our derivative contracts failing to perform under the contracts. As a result, the effectiveness of our risk management policies could have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations and cash flows. For additional information about the nature and volume of these transactions, see Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Additionally, it continues to be a strategic and operational objective to manage supply risk related to crude oil that is used in refinery production, and to develop strategic sourcing relationships. For that purpose, we often enter into purchase and sale contracts with vendors and customers or take physical or financial commodity positions for crude oil that may not be used immediately in production, but that may be used to manage the overall supply and availability of crude expected to ultimately be needed for production and/or to meet minimum requirements under strategic pipeline arrangements, and also to optimize and hedge availability risks associated with crude that we ultimately expect to use in production. Such transactions are inherently based on certain assumptions and judgments made about the current and possible future availability of crude. Therefore, when we take physical or financial positions for optimization purposes, our intent is generally to take offsetting positions in quantities and at prices that will advance these objectives while minimizing our positional and financial statement risk. However, because of the volatility of the market in terms of pricing and availability, it is possible that we may have material positions with timing differences or, more rarely, that we are unable to cover a position with an offsetting position as intended. Also, in connection with such transactions, we may be required to make cash payments or provide letters of credit to maintain margin accounts and to settle the contracts at their value upon termination. Finally, this activity exposes us to potential risk of counterparties to our derivative contracts failing to perform under the contracts.
As a result of the risks described above, the effectiveness of our risk management policies over these types of transactions and positions could have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations and cash flows. For additional information about the nature and volume of these transactions, see Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk, and Note 12 of our consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
We are exposed to certain counterparty risks which may adversely impact our results of operations.
We evaluate the creditworthiness of each of our various counterparties, but we may not always be able to fully anticipate or detect deterioration in a counterparty's creditworthiness and overall financial condition. The deterioration of creditworthiness or overall financial condition of a material counterparty (or counterparties) could expose us to an increased risk of nonpayment or other default under our contracts with them. If a material counterparty (or counterparties) defaults on their obligations to us, this could materially adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows. For example, under the terms of the Inventory Intermediation Agreement with Citi, we grant Citi the exclusive right
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to store and withdraw crude and certain products in the tanks associated with the refineries. This agreement also provides that the ownership of substantially all crude oil and certain other refined products in the tanks associated with these refineries will be retained by Citi, and that Citi will purchase substantially all of the specified refined products processed at these refineries. An adverse change in Citi's business, results of operations, liquidity or financial condition could adversely affect its ability to timely discharge its obligations to us, which could consequently have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations or liquidity.
From time to time, our cash and credit needs may exceed our internally generated cash flow and available credit, and our business could be materially and adversely affected if we are not able to obtain the necessary cash or credit from financing sources.
We have significant short-term cash needs to satisfy working capital requirements, such as crude oil purchases which fluctuate with the pricing and sourcing of crude oil. We rely in part on our access to credit to purchase crude oil for our refineries. If the price of crude oil increases significantly, we may not have sufficient available credit, and may not be able to sufficiently increase such availability, under our existing credit facilities or other arrangements, to purchase enough crude oil to operate our refineries at desired capacities. Our failure to operate our refineries at desired capacities could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. We also have significant long-term needs for cash, including any capital expenditures for growth projects, sustaining maintenance, as well as projects necessary for regulatory compliance.
Depending on the conditions in the credit markets, it may become more difficult to obtain cash or credit from third-party sources including the use of RINs financing arrangements and funded letters of credit. If we cannot generate cash flow or otherwise secure sufficient liquidity to support our short-term and long-term capital requirements, we may not be able to comply with regulatory deadlines or pursue our business strategies, in which case our operations may not perform as well as we currently expect.
Our debt levels may limit our flexibility in obtaining additional financing and in pursuing other business opportunities.
As of December 31, 2025, we had total debt of $3,283.3 million, including current maturities of $9.5 million. In addition to our outstanding debt, as of December 31, 2025, our letters of credit issued under our various credit facilities were $417.4 million. Our borrowing availability under our various credit facilities as of December 31, 2025 was $1,620.8 million. Our level of debt could have important consequences for us. For example, it could:
• increase our vulnerability to general adverse economic and industry conditions;
• require us to dedicate a substantial portion of our cash flow from operations to service our debt and lease obligations, thereby reducing the availability of our cash flow to fund working capital, capital expenditures and other general corporate purposes;
• limit our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our business and the industry in which we operate;
• place us at a disadvantage relative to our competitors that have less indebtedness or better access to capital by, for example, limiting our ability to enter into new markets, upgrade our fixed assets or pursue acquisitions or other business opportunities;
• limit our ability to borrow additional funds in the future; and
• increase interest costs for our borrowed funds and letters of credit.
In addition, a substantial portion of our debt has a variable rate of interest, which increases our exposure to interest rate fluctuations, to the extent we elect not to hedge such exposures.
If we are unable to meet our principal and interest obligations under our debt and lease agreements, we could be forced to restructure or refinance our obligations, seek additional equity financing or sell assets, which we may not be able to do on satisfactory terms or at all. Our default on any of those agreements could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, if new debt is added to our current debt levels, the related risks that we now face could intensify.
Our debt agreements contain operating and financial restrictions that might constrain our business and financing activities.
The operating and financial restrictions and covenants in our credit facilities and any future financing agreements could adversely affect our ability to finance future operations or capital needs or to engage in, expand or pursue our business activities. For example, to varying degrees our credit facilities restrict our ability to:
• declare dividends and redeem or repurchase capital stock;
• prepay, redeem or repurchase debt;
• make loans and investments, issue guaranties and pledge assets;
• incur additional indebtedness or amend our debt and other material agreements;
• make capital expenditures;
• engage in mergers, acquisitions and asset sales; and
• enter into certain intercompany arrangements or make certain intercompany payments, which in some instances could restrict our ability to use the assets, cash flows or earnings of one operating segment to support another operating segment or Delek.
Other restrictive covenants require that we meet certain financial covenants, including leverage coverage, fixed charge coverage and net worth tests, as described in the applicable credit agreements. In addition, the covenant requirements of our various credit agreements require us to make many subjective determinations pertaining to our compliance thereto and exercise good faith judgment in determining our compliance.
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Our ability to comply with the covenants and restrictions contained in our debt instruments may be affected by events beyond our control, including prevailing economic, financial and industry conditions. If market or other economic conditions deteriorate, our ability to comply with these covenants and restrictions may be impaired. If we breach any of the restrictions or covenants in our debt agreements, a significant portion of our indebtedness may become immediately due and payable, and our lenders' commitments to make further loans to us may terminate. We might not have, or be able to obtain, sufficient funds to make these immediate payments. In addition, our obligations under our credit facilities are secured by substantially all of our assets. If we are unable to timely repay our obligations under our credit facilities, the lenders could seek to foreclose on the assets, or we may be required to contribute additional capital to certain of our subsidiaries. Any of these outcomes could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Fluctuations in interest rates could materially affect our financial results.
Because a significant portion of our debt bears interest at variable rates, increases in interest rates could materially increase our interest expense. The use of interest rate hedges, including of the types we have employed in the past, may not be effective at mitigating this risk. This risk, and others dependent on prevailing interest rates, are likely to be heightened during periods of inflation. An increase in interest rates could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Rising interest rates may also adversely impact our weighted average cost of capital (“WACC”) which is used in the valuation of our reporting units for goodwill. A higher WACC, all other things being equal, will result in a lower valuation using a discounted cash flow model, which is an income approach of business valuation. Therefore, rising interest rates can cause a reporting unit to become impaired when, in a lower interest rate environment, it may not be, resulting in incremental impairment expense.
We may refinance a significant amount of indebtedness and otherwise require additional financing; we cannot guarantee that we will be able to obtain the necessary funds on favorable terms or at all.
We may elect to refinance certain of our indebtedness, even if not required to do so by the terms of such indebtedness. In addition, we may need, or want, to raise additional funds for our operations. We have been, and may continue to be, engaged in discussions with certain potential financing sources, which could provide a source of additional funds and liquidity for our operations. However, our ability to obtain such financing will depend on, among other factors, prevailing market conditions at the time of the proposed financing and other factors beyond our control. There is no assurance that we will be able to obtain additional financing on terms acceptable to us, or at all.
We recorded goodwill and other intangible assets that could become impaired and result in material non-cash charges to our results of operations in the future.
The Delek/Alon Merger has been accounted for as an acquisition, by us, of Alon in accordance with GAAP. Under the acquisition method of accounting, the assets and liabilities of Alon and its subsidiaries have been recorded, as of the completion of the Delek/Alon Merger, at their respective fair values. Under the acquisition method of accounting, the total purchase price has been allocated to Alon’s tangible assets and liabilities and identifiable intangible assets based on their estimated fair values as of the date of completion of the Delek/Alon Merger. The excess of the purchase price over the estimated fair values of reporting units has been recorded as goodwill, which was further allocated to other reporting units as permitted under GAAP. To the extent the value of goodwill or intangibles becomes impaired, we may be required to incur material non-cash charges relating to such impairment. Our financial condition and operating results may be significantly impacted from both the impairment and the underlying trends in the business that triggered the impairment. We recorded no impairment for the year ended December 31, 2025 and recorded $212.2 million and $14.8 million of goodwill impairment during the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
An impairment of our long-lived assets or goodwill could negatively impact our results of operations and financial condition.
We continually monitor our business, the business environment and the performance of our operations to determine if an event has occurred that indicates that a long-lived asset or goodwill may be impaired. If a triggering event occurs, which is a determination that involves judgment, we may be required to utilize cash flow projections to assess our ability to recover the carrying value based on the ability to generate future cash flows. We may also conduct impairment testing based on both the guideline public company and guideline transaction methods. Our long-lived assets and goodwill impairment analyses are sensitive to changes in key assumptions used in our analysis, estimates of future market prices, forecasted throughput levels, operating costs and capital expenditures, most of which can be impacted by inflation. If the assumptions used in our analysis are not realized, it is possible a material impairment charge may need to be recorded in the future. We cannot accurately predict the amount and timing of any additional impairments of long-lived assets or goodwill in the future. A deterioration in our operating results or overall economic conditions could result in an impairment of goodwill and / or additional long-lived asset impairments at some point in the future. Future impairment charges could be material to our results of operations.
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ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
None.
ITEM 1C. CYBERSECURITY
Cybersecurity Related Matters
Risk Management and Strategy
IT and OT are critical to our operations, including refinery processes, petroleum movement monitoring in pipelines and terminals, and other mission-critical processes and transactions. We utilize IT and OT systems across our operations to capture accounting, technical and regulatory data for archiving, analysis, and reporting. Our primary business systems mostly consist of purchased and licensed software programs that integrate with our internal solutions. Additionally, our technology encompasses a company-wide network through which employees have access to key business applications.
We maintain and continually enhance a comprehensive, risk-based cybersecurity program aimed at safeguarding our data, along with the data of our customers and partners. The identification, assessment, and management of cyber risks fall under our Enterprise Risk Management (“ERM”) program, overseen by the Board of Directors. Our Chief Technology & Data Officer holds overall responsibility for IT, OT, and cybersecurity. Delek follows recognized cybersecurity frameworks with a Chief Information Security Officer dedicated to overseeing cybersecurity initiatives throughout the entire enterprise.
Our risk assessment process related to cybersecurity includes identifying threats and conducting vulnerability assessments, likelihood and impact assessments related to our own information and OT systems as well as our third-party service providers. Delek collaborates with third-party vendors to leverage managed security services, enhancing Delek’s cybersecurity capabilities. Delek possesses monitoring capabilities for both its IT and OT infrastructure. To identify material cybersecurity risks, we use a combination of technical assessments, risk analysis, vulnerability scanning, incident and event monitoring, threat intelligence and third-party assessments along with ongoing monitoring and management.
We manage our material cybersecurity risks through a combination of security measures, audits, training, planning, and testing. Delek has established processes for regular disaster recovery planning and response readiness testing. Our security approach also includes multiple layers of defense and testing of controls. We have implemented security measures, including segmentation, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, encryption, multi-factor authentication and data loss prevention designed to safeguard our systems and data. Furthermore, we have reinforced our data protection capabilities by investing in both hardware and software.
Recognizing that humans are often the most vulnerable element of even the most secure computer architectures, Delek conducts mandatory security awareness programs, including required training and phishing campaigns for our employees and contractors. Delek also conducts monthly reviews of global cybersecurity incidents to ensure that appropriate mitigation measures are in place to guard against similar threats. Delek is committed to enhancing its organizational resilience through a multiyear, comprehensive incident response tabletop drill program. Building upon the success of the drill conducted in 2025 and previous years, we remain committed to continuous improvement and proactive preparedness in addressing potential challenges and effectively managing incidents.
Delek has not experienced a significant cybersecurity breach or associated expenses, penalties, or settlements for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023. Delek continuously assesses and enhances the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of its IT and OT assets.
Board of Directors Oversight
The Board of Directors and executive leadership team at Delek are committed to investing the attention and resources necessary to maintain the privacy, security and integrity of our information, systems and networks and enhance the company’s resiliency against cyber threats. To assist in these efforts, the Board of Directors has assigned a number of cybersecurity related responsibilities to its standing committees while retaining overall responsibility for the oversight of Delek's cybersecurity activities.
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In overseeing cybersecurity risks, the Board of Directors follows the principles identified by the National Association of Corporate Directors in the oversight of cybersecurity risks. Cybersecurity risks and Company programs are discussed with the Board of Directors by the Chief Technology & Data Officer and others. Third parties are periodically engaged in the assessment of cybersecurity, including evaluating maturity under the National Institute for Security and Technology’s and the International Society of Automation/ International Electrotechnical Commission’s cybersecurity frameworks, testing informational and operational cyber defenses, controls, and reviews of policies and procedures.
The Board of Directors established the standing Technology Committee. One of the Technology Committee’s responsibilities is to review, assess, manage, and mitigate risks related to technological developments, digitalization, and information security. The Technology Committee also reviews assessments of the effectiveness of the Company’s information security and technology programs, procedures, and initiatives. The Technology Committee regularly receives reports from management regarding information security and cyber risk matters, including the Company’s contingency planning and information security training and compliance, and reports its activities to the Board. The Technology Committee’s designated focus on these areas of the Company’s digitalization, information and operational security policies help ensure strategic alignment of the Company’s strategies with information security and risk management.
We also continue to monitor the use of AI throughout our business and we have embedded responsible AI principles into our corporate framework. This ensures that any AI adoption supports long-term security, resilience, transparency, and trust. Delek’s AI Policy sets the foundation for responsible use of AI technologies. It emphasizes fairness, accountability, and compliance with regulatory standards. By prioritizing ethical design and deployment, we aim to reduce risks such as bias, misuse, and data breaches—aligning with our goals of integrity and social responsibility.
Management Oversight
Our senior leadership team is actively involved in cybersecurity governance, providing oversight of cybersecurity risks at the highest levels of our organization. Establishing clear lines of ownership and accountability, along with regular and transparent communication among our standing Board committees, the Board of Directors and executives, is crucial for effectively handling cybersecurity risks and opportunities. Our Chief Technology & Data Officer reports to the Chief Executive Officer, dedicating a substantial amount of their efforts to ensure the safety and security of our networks and systems. Our Chief Technology & Data Officer has nearly 20 years of IT experience including areas of technology, cybersecurity, data, analytics, and digital transformation as well as being an Adjunct Lecturer at Tel-Aviv University and the Technion for Big Data Technologies, Data Science and Data Visualization. Our Chief Technology & Data Officer oversees a team of security professionals and regularly updates the Board of Directors on any potential risks and threats to the Company. Senior leadership including our Chief Technology & Data Officer and the Chief Information Security Officer brief the Board on information security matters multiple times throughout the year.
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ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
In the ordinary conduct of our business, we are from time to time subject to lawsuits, investigations and claims, including environmental claims and employee-related matters. Although we cannot predict with certainty the ultimate resolution of lawsuits, investigations and claims asserted against us, including civil penalties or other enforcement actions, we do not believe that any currently pending legal proceeding or proceedings to which we are a party will have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations. See Note 14 to our consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further information.
Delek is pursuing litigation against the EPA based on its August 2025 small refinery exemption decisions. In September 2025, our subsidiary Alon Refining Krotz Springs, Inc. filed suit in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (the “D.C. Court of Appeals”) (case no. 25-1180) seeking review of the EPA’s decision that the refinery was ineligible for an exemption for the 2024 compliance year. Then, in October 2025, our subsidiaries Alon Refining Krotz Springs, Inc., Delek Refining, Ltd., Lion Oil Company, LLC and Alon USA, LP filed suit in the D.C. Court of Appeals (case numbers 25-1229, 1230, 1231, 1245) seeking review of the EPA’s decision to refund expired RINs for the 2019 to 2023 compliance years. Separately, in October 2025, Alon USA, LP filed suit in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals (No. 25-60584) with a protective petition filed in the D.C. Court of Appeals (case no. 25-1246) seeking review of the EPA’s decision denying an exemption on the 2020 exemption petition of the Big Spring Refinery.
ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
Not applicable.
PART II
ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
Market Information and Holders
Our common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "DK." As of February 20, 2026, there were approximately 127 common stockholders of record. This number does not include beneficial owners of our common stock whose stock is held in nominee or "street name" accounts through brokers. The transfer agent for our common stock is Equiniti Trust Company, LLC, 48 Wall Street, Floor 23, New York, NY 100005.
Dividends
Our Board of Directors considers the declaration of a dividend on a quarterly basis, although there is no assurance as to future dividends since they are dependent upon future earnings, capital requirements, our financial condition and other factors.
Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers
The following table sets forth information with respect to the purchase of shares of our common stock made during the three months ended December 31, 2025 by or on behalf of us or any “affiliated purchaser,” as defined by Rule 10b-18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") (inclusive of all purchases that have settled as of December 31, 2025).
Period Total Number of Shares Purchased Average Price Paid per Share Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs (1)
Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs
October 1 - October 31, 2025
— $ — — $ 484,172,533
November 1 - November 30, 2025
25,522 39.18 25,522 483,172,655
December 1 - December 31, 2025
560,043 33.93 560,043 464,172,587
Total 585,565 $ 34.15 585,565 N/A
(1) The Board of Directors have approved a total amount for repurchases under Delek's aggregate stock repurchase program of $562.0 million. As of December 31, 2025, there was $464.2 million of authorization remaining. This authorization has no expiration. Any share repurchases under the repurchase program may be implemented through open market transactions or in privately negotiated transactions, in accordance with applicable securities laws. The timing, price, and size of repurchases will be made at the discretion of management and will depend on prevailing market prices, general economic and market conditions and other considerations. The repurchase program does not obligate us to acquire any particular amount of stock and does not expire.
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Performance Graph
The Performance Graph and related information shall not be deemed "soliciting material" or to be "filed" with the SEC, nor shall such information be incorporated by reference into any future filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or Securities Exchange Act of 1934, each as amended, except to the extent that we specifically incorporate it by reference into such filing.
The adjacent graph compares cumulative total returns for our stockholders to the Standard and Poor's 500 Stock Index and a market capitalization weighted peer group selected by management for the five-year period commencing December 31, 2020 and ending December 31, 2025. The graph assumes a $100 investment made on December 31, 2020. Each of the three measures of cumulative total return assumes reinvestment of dividends. The 2025 peer group is comprised of Calumet, Inc. (formerly Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. ) (NASDAQ: CLMT), CVR Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CVI), HF Sinclair Corporation (NYSE: DINO) (formerly HollyFrontier Corporation (NYSE: HFC)), Marathon Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: MPC), Par Pacific Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PARR), PBF Energy Inc. (NYSE: PBF), Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX), and Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO). The stock performance shown on the graph below is not necessarily indicative of future price performance.
ITEM 6. RESERVED
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ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Exchange Act. These forward-looking statements reflect our current estimates, expectations and projections about our future results, performance, prospects, and opportunities. Forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements that refer to the H2O Midstream Acquisition and the Gravity Acquisition, including any statements regarding the expected benefits, synergies, growth opportunities, impact on liquidity and prospects, and other financial and operating benefits thereof, statements regarding the effect, impact, potential duration or other implications of, or expectations expressed with respect to, the outbreak of a pandemic and its impact on oil production and pricing, and statements regarding our efforts and plans in response to such events, the information concerning possible future results of operations, business and growth strategies, including as the same may be impacted by any ongoing military conflict, such as the Russia-Ukraine War and the Israel-Hamas War, financing plans, expectations that regulatory developments or other matters will or will not have a material adverse effect on our business or financial condition, our competitive position and the effects of competition, the projected growth of the industry in which we operate, and the benefits and synergies to be obtained from our completed and any future acquisitions or dispositions, including the sale of our Retail Stores, statements of management’s goals and objectives, and other similar expressions concerning matters that are not historical facts. Words such as "may," "will," "should," "could," "would," "predicts," "potential," "continue," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "appears," "projects" and similar expressions, as well as statements in future tense, identify forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements should not be read as a guarantee of future performance or results, and will not necessarily be accurate indications of the times at, or by, which such performance or results will be achieved. Forward-looking information is based on information available at the time and/or management’s good faith belief with respect to future events, and is subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual performance or results to differ materially from those expressed in the statements. Important factors that, individually or in the aggregate, could cause such differences include, but are not limited to:
• volatility in our refining margins or fuel gross profit as a result of changes in the prices of crude oil, other feedstocks, and refined petroleum products;
• reliability of our operating assets;
• actions of our competitors and customers;
• changes in, or the failure to comply with, the extensive government regulations applicable to our industry segments, including current and future restrictions on commercial and economic activities in response to future public health crises;
• our ability to execute our long-term sustainability strategy and growth through acquisitions and dispositions such as the sale of our Retail Stores, the Gravity Acquisition, the H2O Midstream Acquisition, and joint ventures, including our ability to successfully integrate acquisitions, complete strategic transactions, safety initiatives and capital projects, realize expected synergies, cost savings and other benefits therefrom, return value to shareholders, or achieve operational efficiencies;
• diminishment in value of long-lived assets may result in an impairment in the carrying value of the assets on our balance sheet and a resultant loss recognized in the statement of operations;
• the impact on commercial activity and other economic effects of any widespread public health crisis, including uncertainty regarding the timing, pace and extent of economic recovery following any such crisis;
• general economic and business conditions affecting the southern, southwestern, and western United States, particularly levels of spending related to travel and tourism;
• volatility under our derivative instruments;
• deterioration of creditworthiness or overall financial condition of a material counterparty (or counterparties);
• unanticipated increases in cost or scope of, or significant delays in the completion of, our capital improvement safety initiative and periodic turnaround projects;
• risks and uncertainties with respect to the quantities and costs of refined petroleum products supplied to our pipelines and/or held in our terminals;
• operating hazards, natural disasters, weather related disruptions, casualty losses, and other matters beyond our control;
• increases in our debt levels or costs;
• possibility of accelerated repayment on a portion of our Inventory Intermediation Agreement obligation if the purchase price adjustment feature triggers a change on the re-pricing dates;
• changes in our ability to continue to access the credit markets;
• compliance, or failure to comply, with restrictive and financial covenants in our various debt agreements;
• changes in our ability to pay dividends;
• seasonality;
• the decline in margins impacting current results and forecasts could result in impairments in certain of our long-lived or indefinite-lived assets, including goodwill, or have other financial statement impacts that cannot currently be anticipated;
• earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, and other weather events, which can unforeseeably affect the price or availability of electricity, natural gas, crude oil, and other feedstocks, critical supplies, refined petroleum products and ethanol;
• increases in costs of compliance with, or liability for violation of, existing or future laws, regulations and other requirements;
• societal, legislative, and regulatory measures to address climate change and GHG;
• our ability to execute our sustainability improvement plans, including GHG reduction targets;
• acts of terrorism (including cyber-terrorism) aimed at either our facilities or other facilities;
• impacts of global conflicts such as the Israel-Iran War, the Israel-Hamas War, and the Russia-Ukraine War;
• future decisions by OPEC and OPEC+ regarding production and pricing and disputes between OPEC+ members regarding the same;
• disruption, failure, or cybersecurity breaches affecting or targeting our IT systems and controls, our infrastructure, or the infrastructure of our cloud-based IT service providers;
• changes in the cost or availability of transportation for feedstocks and refined products; and
• other factors discussed under Item 1A. Risk Factors and Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and in our other filings with the SEC.
In light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, our actual results of operations and execution of our business strategy could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, the forward-looking statements, and you should not place undue reliance upon them. In
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addition, past financial and/or operating performance is not necessarily a reliable indicator of future performance, and you should not use our historical performance to anticipate future results or period trends. We can give no assurances that any of the events anticipated by any forward-looking statements will occur or, if any of them do, what impact they will have on our results of operations and financial condition. All forward-looking statements included in this report are based on information available to us on the date of this report. We undertake no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Executive Summary: Management's View of Our Business and Strategic Overview
Management's View of Our Business
We are an integrated downstream energy business focused on petroleum refining and the transportation, storage and wholesale distribution of crude oil, intermediate and refined products as well as wastewater processing, disposal, and recycling.
Business and Economic Environment Overview
Our focus on safe and reliable operations is a pillar which underlines all of our business activities. We continue to identify opportunities to mitigate market risk and focus on efforts that improve our overall cost structure while not compromising operational excellence. During the year we continued to make progress on our "sum of the parts" efforts. Our logistics segment (or "Logistics") successfully closed the Gravity Acquisition which includes integrated full-cycle water systems in the Permian Basin, in addition to produced water gathering, and transportation assets in the Bakken, and along with the H2O Midstream Acquisition acquired in the third quarter of 2024, provide a strong opportunity for integrated crude and water services to Delek Logistics customers. These acquisitions represents another significant step in Delek Logistics' commitment of being a full suite crude, gas and water midstream services provider in the Permian Basin in addition to diversifying our logistics customer base to include more third-party customers. Also during 2025 and 2026, we entered into additional agreements with Delek Logistics which put additional midstream commercial activities in Delek Logistics and will bring refining related activities and assets back to our refining segment (or "Refining"). These transactions increased consolidated financial availability by approximately $250 million and continue to grow Delek Logistics third-party earnings while decreasing dependence on Delek. During 2025, the Refining segment provided higher margins than 2024 due to increased crack spreads and the impact of small refinery exemptions. Crack spreads were higher during 2025 than 2024 but still lower than historic highs in 2023. Our disciplined approach to cost control, coupled with a focus on our enterprise optimization plan ("EOP") margin enhancements, as well as the impact related to the small refinery exemptions granted supported earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA") growth and improved cash flow, while our capital deployment remained aligned with our strategic priorities. The domestic West Texas Intermediate ("WTI") differentials compared to Brent continued to be favorable, and the WTI Midland to Cushing differential narrowed favorably compared to 2024. The increased refining margins compared to the 2024 continues to demonstrate that demand for refined products continues to be stable. We will continue to execute on our priorities of running safe and reliable operations, making further progress on our "sum of the parts" and EOP efforts, and delivering shareholder value while maintaining our financial strength and flexibility.
Our refining operations continue to be impacted by requirements to comply with RFS-2. In the third quarter of 2025, we were returned 2019-2023 RINs after being granted small refinery exemptions from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) related to the 2019-2024 compliance periods. While a majority of the RINs returned were expired and had no value, the small refinery exemptions allowed us to retain certain non-expired 2023 and 2024 RINs. Additionally, the exemptions resulted in a reduction of our Consolidated Net RINs obligation related to the unsettled 2024 obligation and a reduction within cost of materials and other in 2025.
The near term economic outlook still has uncertainty due to geopolitical instability and commodity market volatility. As a result, we continue to progress our business transformation focused on enterprise-wide opportunities to improve the efficiency of our cost structure. We continued to advance our strategic initiatives aimed at long-term value creation. This includes the progress made on our EOP. The EOP includes leaner costs including lower general and administrative expenses, lower operating expenses and lower interest expense.
We want to reward our shareholders with a disciplined and balanced capital allocation framework. As we strengthen our relative financial position, we believe a balanced approach between shareholder returns and balance sheet improvement is appropriate. As of December 31, 2025, we returned $141.4 million of capital in 2025 to shareholders through dividends and share buybacks.
Our near-term focus is centered around the following: (1) operational excellence, (2) financial strength and flexibility, (3) strategic initiatives which includes unlocking the "sum of the parts" value of our existing business while identifying growth opportunities to enhance the Company's scale and diversify revenue streams, (4) continuing our EOP efforts to enhance margin and cash flow and (5) return to investors. See further discussion in the "Strategic Objectives" section below.
See further discussion on macroeconomic factors and market trends, including the impact on 2025, in the ‘Market Trends’ section below.
Other 2025 Developments
Acquisition of Gravity
On January 2, 2025, Delek Logistics acquired 100% of the limited liability company interests in Gravity Water Intermediate Holdings LLC from Gravity Water Holdings LLC (the "Gravity Purchase Agreement") related to water disposal and recycling operations in the Permian Basin and the Bakken for total consideration of $300.8 million, subject to customary adjustments for net working capital. The purchase price was comprised of $209.3 million in cash and 2,175,209 of Delek Logistics’ common units.
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Inventory Intermediation Agreement Amendment
On February 21, 2025, DK Trading & Supply, LLC ("DKTS") amended the inventory intermediation agreement ("Inventory Intermediation Agreement") with Citigroup Energy Inc. ("Citi") to among other things, (i) extend the term of the Inventory Intermediation Agreement from January 31, 2026 to January 31, 2027 and (ii) include a mechanism for DKTS to nominate each month whether to include volumes related to the Krotz Springs refinery for funding under the Inventory Intermediation Agreement. On December 18, 2025, DKTS amended the Inventory Intermediation Agreement to, among other things, (i) extend the term of the Inventory Intermediation Agreement from January 31, 2027 to January 31, 2028, (ii) reduce certain commitment fees, and (iii) include a mechanism for DKTS to nominate each month whether to include volumes related to the El Dorado and Big Spring refineries for funding under the Inventory Intermediation Agreement. This amendment further reduces interest expense and other associated fees while increasing our flexibility on liquidity and inventory financing options for all refineries associated with the Inventory Intermediation Agreement.
Delek Logistics
On May 1, 2025, we transferred the Delek Permian Gathering purchasing and blending activities to Delek Logistics (the "DPG Dropdown”). In connection with the DPG Dropdown, Delek Logistics will assume all of the rights and obligations to purchase crude oil under certain contracts associated with Delek Logistics’ existing Midland Gathering System. Total consideration included the cancellation of $58.8 million in payables owed to Delek Logistics.
On May 1, 2025, we entered into a termination agreement with Delek Logistics to terminate, in its entirety, the East Texas Marketing Agreement effective as of January 1, 2026.
On May 1, 2025, in connection with the DPG Dropdown, we amended and restated a throughput agreement with Delek Logistics for the El Dorado rail facility (the “Throughput Agreement”), which includes a minimum volume commitment for refined products until the termination of the Throughput Agreement, which will occur at the closing of the El Dorado Purchase (as defined below). Additionally, on May 1, 2025, in connection with the DPG Dropdown, we entered into an asset purchase agreement with Delek Logistics (the “El Dorado Purchase Agreement”), where we will purchase the related El Dorado rail facility assets from Delek Logistics for cash consideration of $25.0 million (the “El Dorado Purchase”). The El Dorado Purchase is currently set to close January 1, 2026, subject to certain closing conditions as set forth in the El Dorado Purchase Agreement.
We also entered into an amended and restated Omnibus Agreement with Delek Logistics that provides for an increase in the Administrative Fee (as defined therein) which will be phased in over two years beginning July 1, 2025 and a binding obligation for both parties to enter into transition services agreements in the event of a change in control.
On January 30, 2026, we entered into asset purchase agreements with Delek Logistics, (collectively referred to as “the Intercompany Agreements”), pursuant to which we agreed to acquire a Tyler refinery tank for total consideration of $19.0 million (the “Tyler Tank Purchase”) and El Dorado tank and terminal assets for total consideration of $66.0 million (the “El Dorado Terminal Purchase”). The Tyler Tank Purchase and the El Dorado Terminal Purchase are expected to close on April 1, 2026 and October 1, 2027, respectively, in each case subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. Under the Intercompany Agreements, the consideration may be paid in a combination of cash and equity, with up to $20.0 million of the aggregate consideration payable through the return of Delek Logistics common units. In addition, pursuant to the Intercompany Agreements, Delek will waive Omnibus fees for an aggregate of $4.0 million during the first two quarters of 2026.
These transactions with Delek Logistics will be eliminated in consolidation.
Delek Logistics Debt Agreement
On June 30, 2025, Delek Logistics sold $700.0 million in aggregate principal amount of 7.325% Senior Notes due 2033 (the “Delek Logistics 2033 Notes”), at par. Net proceeds were used to repay a portion of the outstanding borrowings under the Delek Logistics Revolving Facility (as defined in Note 11 of the consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K).
Small Refinery Exemptions
On August 22, 2025, the EPA announced its decisions on multiple outstanding small refinery exemption (SRE) petitions from refineries seeking an exemption from their Renewable Fuel Standard obligations for the 2016–2024 compliance years. As part of the exemption review, Delek was granted full and partial exemptions for multiple refineries related to obligations for the 2019-2024 calendar years.
The exemptions granted resulted in Delek being returned 2019-2023 RINs used to satisfy some of our Consolidated Net RINs obligation for previous compliance periods. A majority of these RINs were expired at the point in time the EPA returned them and lacked value. In addition, the exemptions granted for 2024 relieved or partially relieved Delek of its RIN obligations for certain refineries for the 2024 compliance year, allowing the company to retain or monetize the valid RINs that would have otherwise been required for compliance.
The SREs resulted in a reduction of our Consolidated Net RINs Obligation and therefore a reduction within cost of materials and other of approximately $356.1 million in 2025.
Information About Our Segments
Prior to July 2024, we aggregated our operating segments into three reportable segments: refining, logistics, and retail. However, in July 2024,
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we entered into a definitive equity purchase agreement (the "Retail Purchase Agreement") with FEMSA. Under the terms of the Retail Purchase Agreement, Delek agreed to sell, and FEMSA has agreed to purchase, 100% of the equity interests in four of Delek’s wholly-owned subsidiaries that owned and operated 249 retail fuel and convenience stores; the Retail Stores (the "Retail Transaction"). On September 30, 2024, the Retail Transaction closed. As a result of the Retail Purchase Agreement, we met the requirements of Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 205-20, Presentation of Financial Statements - Discontinued Operations ("ASC 205-20") and ASC 360, Property, Plant and Equipment ("ASC 360") to report the results of the Retail Stores as discontinued operations and to classify the Retail Stores as a group of discontinued operations assets.
Operations that are not specifically included in the reportable segments are included in Corporate, Other and Eliminations, which consist of our corporate activities, results of certain immaterial operating segments, including our Canadian crude trading operations and intercompany eliminations.
Refining Overview
The refining segment processes crude oil and other feedstocks for the manufacture of transportation motor fuels, including various grades of gasoline, diesel fuel, aviation fuel, asphalt, and other petroleum-based products that are distributed through owned and third-party product terminals. The refining segment has a combined nameplate capacity of 302,000 bpd as of December 31, 2025. A high-level summary of the refinery activities is presented below:
Tyler, Texas refinery
(the "Tyler refinery") El Dorado, Arkansas refinery
(the "El Dorado refinery") Big Spring, Texas refinery (the "Big Spring refinery") Krotz Springs, Louisiana refinery
(the "Krotz Springs refinery")
Total Nameplate Capacity (bpd) 75,000 80,000 73,000 74,000
Primary Products Gasoline, jet fuel, ultra-low-sulfur diesel, liquefied petroleum gases, propylene, petroleum coke and sulfur Gasoline, jet fuel, ultra-low-sulfur diesel, liquefied petroleum gases, propylene, asphalt and sulfur Gasoline, jet fuel, ultra-low-sulfur diesel, liquefied petroleum gases, propylene, aromatics and sulfur Gasoline, jet fuel, high-sulfur diesel, light cycle oil, liquefied petroleum gases, propylene and ammonium thiosulfate
Relevant Crack Spread Benchmark Gulf Coast 5-3-2
Gulf Coast 5-3-2 (1)
Gulf Coast 3-2-1 (2)
Gulf Coast 2-1-1 (3)
Marketing and Distribution The refining segment's petroleum-based products are marketed primarily in the south central and southwestern regions of the United States, and the refining segment also ships and sells gasoline into wholesale markets in the southern and eastern United States. In addition, we sell motor fuels through our wholesale distribution network on an unbranded basis.
(1) While there is variability in the crude slate and the product output at the El Dorado refinery, we compare our per barrel refined product margin to the U.S. Gulf Coast ("Gulf Coast") 5-3-2 crack spread because we believe it to be the most closely aligned benchmark.
(2) Our Big Spring refinery is capable of processing substantial volumes of sour crude oil, which has historically cost less than intermediate, and/or substantial volumes of sweet crude oil, and therefore the WTI Cushing/ West Texas Sour ("WTS") price differential, taking into account differences in production yield, is an important measure for helping us make strategic, market-respondent production decisions.
(3) The Krotz Springs refinery has the capability to process substantial volumes of light sweet crude oil to produce a high percentage of refined light products.
Our refining segment also owns three biodiesel facilities involved in the production of biodiesel fuels and related activities, located in Crossett, Arkansas, Cleburne, Texas, and New Albany, Mississippi. During the second quarter of 2024, we made the decision to idle the biodiesel facilities, while exploring viable and sustainable alternatives. In the fourth quarter of 2025 we entered into an agreement to sell the Cleburne, Texas facility. In addition, the refining segment includes our wholesale crude operations and our 50% interest in a joint venture that owns asphalt terminals located in the southwestern region of the U.S.
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Logistics Overview
Our logistics segment contains a full suite of gas, crude and water systems that gathers, transports and stores crude oil and natural gas; markets, distributes, transports and stores refined products; and disposes and recycles water in select regions of the southern United States, West Texas, New Mexico and North Dakota for our refining segment and third parties. It is comprised of the consolidated balance sheet and results of operations of Delek Logistics (NYSE: DKL), where we owned a 63.3% interest at December 31, 2025. Delek Logistics was formed by Delek in 2012 to own, operate, acquire and construct crude oil and refined products logistics and marketing assets. A portion of Delek Logistics' assets are currently integral to our refining and marketing operations. The logistics segment's gathering and processing business owns or leases capacity on approximately 390 miles of crude oil transportation pipelines, approximately 169 miles of refined product pipelines, and approximately 767-mile crude oil gathering system. Additionally, in the Delaware Basin, we have been expanding our natural gas processing capabilities by constructing a new natural gas processing plant and adding AGI and sour gas processing capabilities. This segment also includes water disposal and recycling operations, located in the Delaware Basin of New Mexico, the Midland Basin of Texas, and the Bakken Basin of North Dakota. The storage and transportation business owns or leases associated crude oil storage tanks. The logistics segment has an aggregate of approximately 11.3 million barrels of active shell capacity. It also owns and operates nine light product terminals and markets light products using third-party terminals. Logistics has strategic investments in pipeline joint ventures that provide access to pipeline capacity as well as the potential for earnings from joint venture operations. The logistics segment owns or leases approximately 161 tractors and 306 trailers used to haul primarily crude oil and other products for related and third parties.
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Management's Discussion and Analysis
Strategic Objectives
It is vitally important that our strategic objectives, especially in view of the evolutionary direction of our macroeconomic and geopolitical environment, involve a process of continuous evaluation of our business model in terms of cost structure, as well as long-term economic and operational sustainability. More consolidation in our industry is expected from increased cost pressures due in part to the regulatory environment continuing to move towards reducing carbon emissions and transitioning to renewable energy in the long-term. However, we believe we are uniquely positioned as a leader in operating and excelling in niche markets and could continue capitalizing on our niche position by being the supplier of choice in our markets.
Key Objectives
Certain fundamental principles are foundational to our long-term strategy and direct us as we develop our strategic objectives. With that in mind, we have identified the following overarching key objectives:
I. Operational Excellence
II. Financial Strength and Flexibility - EOP
III. Strategic Initiatives - "sum of the parts"
Operational Excellence
We are committed to operational excellence which includes maintaining safe, reliable, and environmentally responsible operations. It also encompasses the dedication and drive for constant improvement across our operations in reliability, safety, and efficiency. Delek prioritizes stewardship of the environment, and we focus on how to positively impact our shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities where we operate. We believe that focusing on people, processes and equipment will lead to improved utilization and yields and ultimately better employee retention and lower costs, which translates to improved returns for our shareholders. For 2025, we are focused on the following:
• Prioritize safety and environmental compliance by the continued implementation of foundational best practices to increase operations ability to provide safe, compliant, and reliable operations.
• Focus on operational excellence by building out our operations centric area business teams, as well as other key competency training.
• Identify and execute on low-capital organic growth projects that improve yield and increase utilization.
• Continue our progression of digital system implementations that will do the following:
◦ improve our ability to understand all aspects of our business as well as our ability to make real-time and forward-looking operational decisions; and
◦ automate processes and shift operational roles to higher value-added activities.
Financial Strength and Flexibility
In our industry, as with many volatile businesses, it is very important to make capital investments with accretive returns and maintain a strong balance sheet. We want to reward our shareholders and investors with a disciplined and balanced capital allocation framework, which we believe will strengthen shareholder value by, among other things, a stable dividend complemented by opportunistic share repurchases. We are also committed to lowering costs and improving the efficiency of our cost structure in all aspects of our business. For 2025, we are focused on the following:
• Reward our shareholders and investors with a disciplined and balanced capital allocation framework, including opportunities to strengthen our balance sheet by reducing debt or opportunistically repurchasing shares with excess cash.
• Build on the “zero-based budget” cost saving plan completed in 2024, with a comprehensive margin enhancement plan included within the EOP. The EOP initiatives are focused on improving our financial health and ability to generate free cash flow. The EOP includes leaner costs including lower general and administrative expenses, lower operating expenses specifically at our refineries and lowering interest expense. The EOP also includes margin initiatives including accretive, minimal capital projects in our refining segment and commercial improvements through market optionality, improved Delek Logistics, and product slate optimization.
Strategic Initiatives
For 2026, we will continue to focus on furthering our "sum of the parts" efforts, focusing on the following:
• Execute on our strategic initiatives, which may include opportunities to monetize our investment in Delek Logistics. The goal being to help unlock value embedded in the Delek valuation, along with deconsolidating Delek Logistics by reducing Delek's ownership in Delek Logistics.
• Identify and evaluate investment opportunities that fit our sustainability view and integrate into our current asset footprint, including strategic investments or joint ventures in renewables or carbon capture and incubator investments in new technologies.
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2025 Strategic Developments
The following table highlights our 2025 Strategic Developments:
2025 Key Initiatives
2025 Strategic Developments
Operational Excellence Financial Strength & Flexibility Strategic Initiatives
Executing Strategic Midstream Acquisition:
On January 2, 2025, Delek Logistics acquired 100% of Gravity from Gravity Water Holdings LLC related to water disposal and recycling operations in the Permian Basin and the Bakken for total consideration of $300.8 million, subject to customary adjustments for net working capital. The purchase price was comprised of $209.3 million in cash and 2,175,209 of Delek Logistics’ common units. This transaction further enhances Delek Logistics' position as full service (crude, natural gas and water) provider in the Permian basin. The acquisition is synergistic to Delek Logistics' recent acquisition of H2O Midstream and supplements Delek Logistics' integrated crude and produced water gathering and disposal offering in the Midland Basin.
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Adding Flexibility to the Inventory Intermediation Agreement:
On February 21, 2025, DKTS amended the Inventory Intermediation Agreement to, among other things, include a mechanism for DKTS to nominate each month whether to include volumes related to the Krotz Springs refinery for funding under the Inventory Intermediation Agreement. This amendment reduces interest expense and other associated fees while increasing our flexibility on liquidity and inventory financing options. On December 18, 2025, DKTS amended the Inventory Intermediation Agreement to, among other things, (i) extend the term of the Inventory Intermediation Agreement from January 31, 2027 to January 31, 2028, (ii) reduce certain commitment fees, and (iii) include a mechanism for DKTS to nominate each month whether to include volumes related to the El Dorado and Big Spring refinery for funding under the Inventory Intermediation Agreement. This amendment further reduces interest expense and other associated fees while increasing our flexibility on liquidity and inventory financing options for all refineries associated with the Inventory Intermediation Agreement.
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Enterprise Optimization Plan
In 2024, we implemented additional cost reduction measures across the organization and announced an enterprise optimization plan ("EOP") which included initiatives focused on improving our financial health and ability to generate cash flows. In 2025, we continued to execute on the EOP, which included leaner costs including lower general and administrative expenses, lower operating expenses and lower interest expense.
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Increasing Shareholder Value by Executing Buybacks:
During the year ended December 31, 2025, 3,839,968 shares of our common stock were repurchased and cancelled at the time of the transaction for a total of $79.4 million. As of December 31, 2025, there was $464.2 million of authorization remaining under Delek's aggregate stock repurchase program.
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Monetizing Our Investment in Delek Logistics:
On February 24, 2025, we entered into a Common Unit Purchase Agreement with Delek Logistics (the “Common Unit Purchase Agreement”) whereby Delek Logistics may repurchase common units from time to time from us in one or more transactions for an aggregate purchase price of up to $150.0 million through December 31, 2026. During the year ended December 31, 2025, 243,075 common units were repurchased from us and cancelled at the time of the transaction for a total of $10.0 million. As of December 31, 2025, there was $140.0 million of authorization remaining under the Common Unit Repurchase Agreement.
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Expanding Delek Logistics' Natural Gas Processing Capability:
In April 2025, Delek Logistics began commissioning its new natural gas processing plant adjacent to its plant in the Permian Basin. The new plant has a capacity of approximately 110 MMcf/d and aims to meet the rising demand for natural gas in the region. This expansion project will also increase Delek Logistics' third party revenue. Expected annual EBITDA is estimated to be approximately $40.0 million attributable to Delek Logistics.
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Executing Strategic Transactions with Delek Logistics:
On May 1, 2025, we entered into agreements with Delek Logistics, which among other things, transfers the Delek Permian Gathering purchasing and blending activities to Delek Logistics including all of our rights and obligations to purchase crude oil under certain contracts associated with Delek Logistics’ existing Midland Gathering System and brings back the El Dorado rail facility assets to the Refining Segment on January 1, 2026. On January 30, 2026, we entered into additional asset purchase agreements with Delek Logistics, pursuant to which we agreed to reacquire a Tyler refinery tank and El Dorado tank and terminal assets. These transactions put additional midstream commercial activities in Delek Logistics and bring refining related activities and assets back to the Refining Segment. Additionally, these transactions increase consolidated financial availability by approximately $250 million.
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Extending Long Term Debt Maturities:
On June 30, 2025, Delek Logistics and its wholly owned subsidiary Delek Logistics Finance Corp. (“Finance Corp.” and together with Delek Logistics, the “Co-issuers”), sold $700.0 million in aggregate principal amount of the Co-issuers 7.325% Senior Notes due 2033, at par. Net proceeds were used to repay a portion of the outstanding borrowings under the Delek Logistics Revolving Facility providing Delek Logistics with $1.1 billion of availability on the facility as of June 30, 2025.
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Management's Discussion and Analysis
Significant Known Uncertainties Impacting Delek
Aside from the market trends and the uncertainties inherent to those market drivers many of which are referenced in the 'Executive Summary' above and which are discussed at length in the 'Market Trends' section below, we have also identified certain uncertainties that we believe to be sufficiently significant to our financial results in the near term as to warrant additional discussion. We have included supplemental discussion of those uncertainties, and our efforts for mitigating them, below. However, note that this discussion is to bring additional attention to areas that have been of particular interest to management but should not be considered comprehensive of all known trends and uncertainties which may be relevant. Instead, in the context of all known trends or uncertainties that have had, or that are reasonably likely to have, a material favorable or unfavorable effect on financial results, they should be considered part of the larger discussion on market trends and uncertainties throughout our management's discussion and analysis.
Regulatory Volatility
Delek is an obligated party under the RFS, which requires us to obtain RINs to satisfy our annual Renewable Volume Obligation (“RVO”). While we are able to obtain a portion of the RINs required for compliance by blending renewable fuels manufactured by third parties, we must also purchase RINs on the open market in order to comply with the quantity of renewable fuels we are required to blend under the RFS. The price and number of RINs an obligated party must acquire are impacted by government regulation requiring such credits, and also may be impacted by small refiner exemptions (“SREs”) granted by the EPA. In past years, the price of RINs has been highly volatile and the EPA’s decisions on SRE hardship petitions have been unduly delayed. Increasing RINs prices, inconsistent administration of the RFS by the EPA, and Delek’s market position has prevented us from passing through compliance costs of the program in the past and will likely continue in the future. While we cannot predict the future prices of RINs, the costs to obtain the necessary number of RINs could be material. Our future operating results are significantly dependent on the EPAs granting of SREs on a timely basis. If we are unable to pass the costs of compliance with the RFS on to our customers, if sufficient RINs are unavailable for purchase, if we have to pay a significantly higher price for RINs or if we are otherwise unable to meet the RFS mandates, our refinery operations, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected.
In the past, we have received SREs under the RFS program for certain of our refineries. In August 2025, the EPA granted full and partial exemptions for certain of our refineries related to obligations for the 2019-2024 calendar years. We were able to use some of these RINs to satisfy our obligation for previous compliance periods. However, because RINs are valid for a one-year period, a majority of the refunded RINs had expired and therefore cannot be used or sold for value to offset future compliance obligations. The relief received also was not sufficient to offset our 2025 compliance obligation and thus Delek’s refineries will need to seek relief from the EPA for the hardship imposed by the RFS for the 2025 compliance year.
Uncertainty remains regarding the impact that proposed EPA rules, or future revisions to proposed rules, may have on RINs prices, which impact the determination of the fair value of our Net RINs Obligation, as well as the fair value of forward RIN commitment contracts. Additionally, while our current Net RINs Obligation reflects current RINs market prices as of December 31, 2025, the financial statement impact, including both the income statement and net cash impact of future changes to enacted Renewable Volume Obligation rates, is not determinable because of the complexity of the Net RINs Obligation and related transactions, where such financial statement impact is dependent upon the following: (1) the composition of the specific Net RINs Obligation (in terms of the vintages of RINs we currently own versus the waived RINs Obligation) and the related market prices at the date each volumetric requirement change is enacted; (2) the composition of our RINs forward commitment contracts that may be settled or positions closed as a result of any enacted change and the related gains or losses; (3) the settlement requirements of related RINs product financing arrangements; and (4) the quantity of and dates at which excess RINs can be sold and the sales price (see also Note 12, Note 13 and Note 19 as well as our related accounting policies related to RINs included in Note 2 of our consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K). Enacted regulatory changes could impact our financial results in ways that we cannot currently anticipate.
Delek's Response to Significant Uncertainties Associated with Regulatory Volatility
As discussed above, RFS activities and Renewable Volume Obligation requirements, and their impact on RIN prices, represent a significant risk which has, and could continue to, materially impact our financial results in ways that are currently uncertain. Our efforts to mitigate this risk include the following:
• Actively monitoring EPA rule-making and RFS actions regarding volumetric requirements, remittance due dates, and deferral opportunities in order to make decisions about RINs inventory;
• Proactively monitoring our Net RINs Obligation position (inclusive of our RINs inventory portfolio), by vintage and RIN category, in order to make decisions about the purchase and sale of RINs, based on both a current and forward basis, and considering the risk of floating versus fixed pricing; and
• Incorporating into our strategic priorities activities designed to enhance incremental crack spread capture so that the impact of high RIN prices or RINs price volatility is diminished.
While there continues to be risk around the fair value of the RINs Obligation that we incur and the RINs cost we recognize in our results of operations, we believe that our risk management activities around RINs are comprehensive. That said, because the RINs market is subject to factors outside of our control, there will continue to be risk that RINs cost could adversely affect our financial results. See additional discussion of the effect of RINs prices and volatility on our refining margins in the "Market Trends" section below.
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Market Trends
Our results of operations are significantly affected by fluctuations in the prices of certain commodities, including, but not limited to, crude oil, gasoline, distillate fuel, biofuels, natural gas, and electricity, among others. Historically, the impact of commodity price volatility on our refining margins (as defined in our "Non-GAAP Measures" in MD&A Item 7), specifically as it relates to the price of crude oil as compared to the price of refined products and timing differences in the movements of those prices (subject to our inventory costing methodology), as well as location differentials, may be favorable or unfavorable compared to peers. Additionally, our refining margin profitability is impacted by regulatory factors, including the cost of RINs.
We have positioned the Company to continue to run safely, reliably, and environmentally responsibly while leveraging our Delek Logistics business. Crack spreads were higher in 2025 than 2024, but below historically high crack spreads in 2023. Many uncertainties remain in 2026 with respect to the global supply and demand of the crude oil and refined products markets and it is difficult to predict the ultimate economic impacts this may have on our operations. We expect refining capacity rationalization to lower refined products inventory and crude oil demand to continue to rise. These factors will help absorb the recent additions in global supply and balance the market over the next 6 to 12 months. However, U.S. policy changes and escalating conflicts in the Middle East, Europe, and South America could potentially result in supply disruptions or further volatility in crude oil and refined products prices.
See below for further discussion on how certain key market trends impact our operating results.
Crude Prices
WTI crude oil represents the largest component of our crude slate at all of our refineries and can be sourced through our gathering channels or optimization efforts from Midland, Texas, Cushing, Oklahoma, or other locations. We manage our supply chain risk to ensure that we have the barrels to meet our crude slate consumption plan for each month through gathering supply contracts and throughput agreements on various strategic pipelines, some of which include those where we hold equity method investments. We manage market price risk on crude oil through financial derivative hedges, in accordance with our risk management strategies.
The chart below illustrates the average quarterly price of WTI Midland and WTI Cushing over the past three years.
Crude Pricing Differentials
Historically, domestic refiners have benefited from the discount for WTI Cushing compared to Brent, a global benchmark crude. This generally leads to higher margins in our refineries, as refined product prices are influenced by Brent crude prices and the majority of our crude supply is WTI-linked. Because of our positioning in the Permian basin, including our access to significant sources of WTI Midland crude through our gathering system, we are even further benefited by discounts for WTI Midland/WTI Cushing differentials. When these discounts shrink or become premiums, our reliance on WTI-linked crude pricing, and specifically WTI Midland crude, can negatively impact our refining margins. Conversely, as these price discounts widen, so does our competitive advantage, created specifically by our access to WTI Midland crude sourced through our gathering systems.
The chart below illustrates the key differentials impacting our refining operations, including WTI Cushing to Brent, WTI Midland to WTI Cushing, and LLS to WTI Cushing over the past three years.
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Refined Product Prices
We are impacted by refined product prices in two ways: (1) in terms of the prices we are able to sell our refined product for in our refining segment, and (2) in terms of the cost to acquire the refined products to meet refining production shortfalls (e.g., when we have outages), or to acquire refined fuel products we sell to our wholesale customers in our logistics segment. These prices largely depend on numerous factors beyond our control, including the supply of, and demand for, crude oil, gasoline and other refined petroleum products which, in turn, depend on, among other factors, changes in domestic and foreign economies, weather conditions, domestic and foreign political affairs, production levels, the availability of imports, the marketing of competitive fuels and government regulation.
Our refineries produce the following products:
Tyler Refinery El Dorado Refinery Big Spring Refinery Krotz Springs Refinery
Primary Products Gasoline, jet fuel, ultra-low-sulfur diesel, liquefied petroleum gases, propylene, petroleum coke, and sulfur Gasoline, jet fuel, ultra-low-sulfur diesel, liquefied petroleum gases, propylene, asphalt, and sulfur Gasoline, jet fuel, ultra-low-sulfur diesel, liquefied petroleum gases, propylene, aromatics, and sulfur Gasoline, jet fuel, high-sulfur diesel, light cycle oil, liquefied petroleum gases, propylene, and ammonium thiosulfate
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The charts below illustrate the quarterly average prices of CBOB, HSD and ULSD over the past three years.
Crack Spreads
Crack spreads are used as benchmarks for predicting and evaluating a refinery's product margins by measuring the difference between the market price of feedstocks/crude oil and the resultant refined products. Generally, a crack spread represents the approximate refining margin resulting from processing one barrel of crude oil into its outputs, generally gasoline and diesel fuel.
The table below reflects the quarterly average Gulf Coast 5-3-2 ULSD, 3-2-1 ULSD and 2-1-1 HSD/LLS crack spreads for each of the quarterly periods over the past three years.
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RIN Volatility
Environmental regulations and the political environment continue to affect our refining margins in the form of volatility in the price of RINs . We enter into future commitments to purchase or sell RINs at fixed prices and quantities, which are used to manage the costs of our RINs Obligation. On a consolidated basis, we work to balance our RINs Obligation in order to minimize the effect of RINs prices on our results. While we obtain RINs in our refining and logistics segments through our ethanol blending, our refining segment still must purchase additional RINs to satisfy its obligations. Prior to the idling of the biodiesel facilities in 2024, we obtained RINs through biodiesel blending and generated RINs through biodiesel production. Additionally, our ability to obtain RINs through blending is limited by our refined product slate, blending capabilities and market constraints. The cost to purchase these additional RINs is a significant cash outflow for our business. Increases in the market prices of RINs generally adversely affect our results of operations through changes in fair value to our existing RINs Obligation, to the extent we do not have offsetting RINs inventory on hand or effective economic hedges through net forward purchase commitments. RINs prices are highly sensitive to regulatory and political influence and conditions, and therefore often do not correlate to movements in crude oil prices, refined product prices, or crack spreads. Because of the volatility in RINs prices, it is not possible to predict future RINs cost with certainty, and movements in RINs prices can have significant and unanticipated adverse effects on our refining margins that are outside of our control.
The chart below illustrates the volatility in RINs over the past three years.
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Energy Costs
Energy costs are a significant element of our refining segment's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ("Refining EBITDA") and can significantly impact our ability to capture crack spreads, with natural gas representing the largest component. Natural gas prices are driven by supply-side factors such as the amount of natural gas production, level of natural gas in storage and import and export activity, while demand-side factors include variability of weather, economic growth and the availability and price of other fuels. Refiners and other large-volume fuel consumers may be more or less susceptible to volatility in natural gas prices depending on their consumption levels as well as their capabilities to switch to more economical sources of fuel/energy. Additionally, geographic location of facilities makes consumers vulnerable to price differentials of natural gas available at different supply hubs. Within Delek’s geographic footprint, we source the majority of our natural gas from the Gulf Coast, and secondarily from the Permian Basin, coinciding with the physical locations of our refineries. We manage our risk around natural gas prices by entering into variable and fixed-price supply contracts in both the Gulf and Permian Basin or by entering into derivative hedges based on forecasted consumption and forward curve prices, as appropriate, in accordance with our risk policy.
The charts below illustrate the quarterly average prices of Waha (Permian Basin) and Henry Hub (Gulf Coast) over the past three years.
Non-GAAP Measures
Our management uses certain non-Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“non-GAAP”) operational measures to evaluate our operating segment performance and non-GAAP financial measures to evaluate past performance and prospects for the future to supplement our GAAP financial information presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. These financial and operational non-GAAP measures are important factors in assessing our operating results and profitability and include:
• EBITDA - calculated as net income (loss) attributable to Delek adjusted to add back interest expense, income tax expense, depreciation, amortization and proportional interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of equity method investments; and
• Refining margin - calculated as gross margin (which we define as sales minus cost of sales) adjusted for operating expenses and depreciation and amortization included in cost of sales.
We believe these non-GAAP operational and financial measures are useful to investors, lenders, ratings agencies and analysts to assess our ongoing performance because, when reconciled to their most comparable GAAP financial measure, they provide improved comparability between periods through the exclusion of certain items that we believe are not indicative of our core operating performance and they may obscure our underlying results and trends.
Non-GAAP measures have important limitations as analytical tools because they exclude some, but not all, items that affect net earnings and operating income. These measures should not be considered substitutes for their most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures.
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Non-GAAP Reconciliations
The following table provides a reconciliation of EBITDA attributable to Delek to the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP measure, net (loss) income attributable to Delek:
Year Ended December 31,
2025 2024 2023
Reported net (loss) income attributable to Delek US $ (22.8) $ (560.4) $ 19.8
Proportional interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of equity-method investments 29.0 28.1 26.7
Interest expense, net 345.3 313.1 318.2
Income tax (benefit) expense (7.4) (79.2) 5.1
Depreciation and amortization 397.8 383.5 351.6
EBITDA attributable to Delek $ 741.9 $ 85.1 $ 721.4
The following table provides a reconciliation of refining margin to the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP measure, gross margin:
Reconciliation of refining margin to gross margin (in millions)
Refining Segment
Year Ended December 31,
2025 2024 2023
Total revenues $ 10,551.3 $ 11,783.0 $ 16,406.9
Cost of sales 10,042.0 12,009.5 16,095.7
Gross margin $ 509.3 $ (226.5) 311.2
Add back (items included in cost of sales):
Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization) 614.6 596.6 619.2
Depreciation and amortization 270.0 265.5 234.2
Refining margin $ 1,393.9 $ 635.6 $ 1,164.6
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Summary Financial and Other Information
The following table provides summary financial data for Delek (in millions):
Summary Statement of Operations Data (1)
Year Ended December 31,
2025 2024 2023
Net revenues $ 10,722.9 $ 11,852.2 $ 16,467.2
Cost of sales:
Cost of materials and other 8,873.6 10,781.8 14,825.3
Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization presented below) 862.9 763.8 770.6
Depreciation and amortization 374.3 349.7 322.8
Total cost of sales 10,110.8 11,895.3 15,918.7
Insurance proceeds (0.1) (20.6) (20.3)
Operating expenses related to wholesale business (excluding depreciation and amortization presented below) 9.0 3.4 4.4
General and administrative expenses 269.5 252.8 272.0
Depreciation and amortization 23.5 24.8 16.7
Asset impairment 17.7 243.5 37.9
Other operating income, net (8.5) (55.5) (6.9)
Total operating costs and expenses 10,421.9 12,343.7 16,222.5
Operating income (loss) 301.0 (491.5) 244.7
Interest expense, net 345.3 313.0 318.0
Income from equity method investments (89.5) (92.2) (86.2)
Other expense (income), net 6.3 (6.3) (3.7)
Total non-operating expenses, net 262.1 214.5 228.1
Income (loss) from continuing operations before income tax expense (benefit) 38.9 (706.0) 16.6
Income tax benefit (6.8) (107.9) (3.0)
Income (loss) from continuing operations, net of tax 45.7 (598.1) 19.6
Discontinued operations:
(Loss) income from discontinued operations, including gain on sale of discontinued operations (3.0) 105.9 35.2
Income tax (benefit) expense (0.6) 28.7 8.1
(Loss) income from discontinued operations, net of tax (2.4) 77.2 27.1
Net income (loss) 43.3 (520.9) 46.7
Net income attributed to non-controlling interests 66.1 39.5 26.9
Net (loss) income attributable to Delek $ (22.8) $ (560.4) $ 19.8
(1) This information is presented at a summary level for your reference. See the Consolidated Statements of Income included in item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more detail regarding our results of operations and net income per share.
We report operating results in two reportable segments:
• Refining
• Logistics
Decisions concerning the allocation of resources and assessment of operating performance are made based on this segmentation. Management measures the operating performance of each of its reportable segments based on the segment EBITDA.
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Results of Operations
Consolidated Results of Operations — Comparison of the Year Ended December 31, 2025 versus the Year Ended December 31, 2024
Net Income (Loss)
2025 vs. 2024
Consolidated net income for the year ended December 31, 2025 was $43.3 million compared to a net loss of $520.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2024. Consolidated net loss attributable to Delek for the year ended December 31, 2025 was $22.8 million, or $(0.38) per basic share, compared to a loss of $560.4 million, or $(8.77) per basic share, for the year ended December 31, 2024. Explanations for significant drivers impacting net income (loss) as compared to the comparable period of the prior year are discussed in the sections below.
Net Revenues
2025 vs. 2024
We generated net revenues of $10,722.9 million and $11,852.2 million during the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, a decrease of $1,129.3 million, or 9.5%. The decrease in net revenues was primarily due to the following:
• in our refining segment, decreases in the average price of U.S. Gulf Coast gasoline of 10.3% and ULSD of 6.4%; and
• in our logistics segment, decreased revenue of $5.6 million in our West Texas marketing operations.
These decreases were partially offset by the following:
• increased sales volumes (including purchased products) in our refining segment;
• an increase in the average price of U.S. Gulf Coast HSD of 1.0%; and
• incremental revenue associated with the H2O Midstream Acquisition and Gravity Acquisition of $41.0 million and $90.1 million, respectively.
Total Operating Costs and Expenses
Cost of Materials and Other
2025 vs. 2024
Cost of materials and other was $8,873.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, compared to $10,781.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, a decrease of $1,908.2 million, or 17.7%. The net decrease in cost of materials and other primarily related to the following:
• a decrease in the cost of crude oil feedstocks at the refineries, including a 14.5% decrease in the average cost of WTI Cushing crude oil and a 14.7% decrease in the average cost of WTI Midland crude oil;
• small refinery exemptions received in 2025 resulting in a reduction of our Consolidated Net RINs Obligation and therefore a reduction within Cost of materials and other of approximately $356.1 million; and
• in our logistics segment, decreased cost of materials and other of $7.2 million in our West Texas marketing operations.
These decreases were partially offset by the following:
• increased sales volume (including purchased products); and
• incremental costs associated with the Gravity and H2O Midstream Acquisitions of $15.9 million and $3.0 million, respectively.
Insurance Proceeds
2025 vs. 2024
Insurance proceeds were $0.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to $20.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, a decrease of $20.5 million, or (99.5)%. The decrease was primarily driven by the following:
• For the year ended December 31, 2025, we recognized $0.1 million of business interruption insurance recoveries compared to $20.6 million of insurance proceeds related to property damage from the 2021 El Dorado refinery fire, the 2021 freeze events and the 2022 Big Spring refinery fire for the year ended December 31, 2024.
Refer to Note 14 of our consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further information.
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Operating Expenses
2025 vs. 2024
Operating expenses (included in both cost of sales and other operating expenses) were $871.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to $767.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $104.7 million, or 13.6%. The increase in operating expenses was primarily driven by the following:
• an increase in outside services $20.8 million, variable expenses including natural gas, chemical, and electric of $41.1 million, employee costs of $46.3 million and maintenance costs of $13.2 million. These increases include costs associated with the H2O Midstream and Gravity Acquisitions of $10.6 million and $31.0 million, respectively.
• These increases were partially offset by a decrease in insurance costs of $6.6 million and lease and rental costs of $11.0 million.
General and Administrative Expenses
2025 vs. 2024
General and administrative expenses were $269.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to $252.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $16.7 million, or 6.6%. The increase was primarily driven by increased restructuring costs of $59.6 million and incentive compensation of $14.0 million. The increases were partially offset by decreased employee costs of $39.4 million and transaction costs of $15.8 million associated with the H20 Midstream Acquisition and Gravity Acquisition during the year ended December 31, 2024 and transaction costs associated with amended and new agreements with Delek Logistics during the year ended December 31, 2024.
Depreciation and Amortization
2025 vs. 2024
Depreciation and amortization (included in both cost of sales and other operating expenses) was $397.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to $374.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $23.3 million, or 6.2%. The increase was a result of a general increase in our fixed asset base due to capital projects and turnarounds completed and depreciation and amortization attributable to the H2O Midstream and Gravity acquisitions.
Asset Impairment
2025 vs. 2024
Asset impairment was $17.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to $243.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2024.
• For the year ended December 31, 2025, the asset impairment primarily related to an $11.6 million impairment of software development costs.
• For the year ended December 31, 2024 we recorded a $22.1 million asset impairment as a result of our second quarter 2024 decision to idle our biodiesel facilities, while exploring viable and sustainable alternatives, recorded a $9.2 million asset impairment for pipeline assets because utilization was no longer probable and recorded a $212.2 million goodwill impairment.
Refer to Note 13 and Note 20 of our consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further information.
Other Operating Expense (Income), Net
2025 vs. 2024
Other operating income, net was $8.5 million and $55.5 million for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, a decrease of $47.0 million, or (84.7)% . The decrease was primarily driven by the following:
• for the year ended December 31, 2024, we recorded a net gain of $53.4 million in the 2024 period related to a property settlement;
• for the year ended December 31, 2024, we recorded a gain of $16.5 million while for the year ended December 31, 2025, we recorded a gain of $2.8 million related to the 2021 El Dorado refinery fire; and
• for the year ended December 31, 2024, we recorded a gain of $8.3 million related to Delek Logistics' eminent domain settlement while for the year ended December 31, 2025, we recorded a gain of $4.3 related to Delek Logistics' eminent domain settlement.
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These decreases were partially offset by the following:
• for the year ended December 31, 2024, we made a strategic decision to abandon certain capital projects included in construction in progress that no longer fit our core objectives and as a result we recognized a loss of $14.1 million; and
• for the year ended December 31, 2025 we recorded a $5.0 million gain on sale of an asset.
Non-Operating Expenses, Net
Interest Expense, Net
2025 vs. 2024
Interest expense, net was $345.3 million in the year ended December 31, 2025, compared to $313.0 million for year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $32.3 million, or 10.3% primarily due to the following:
• an increase in net average borrowings outstanding (including the obligations under the inventory intermediation agreement which has an associated interest charge) of approximately $172.6 million during the year ended December 31, 2025 (calculated as a simple average of beginning borrowings/obligation and ending borrowings/obligation for the period) compared to the year ended December 31, 2024; and
• hedge loss associated with our interest rate swap.
This increase was partially offset by the following:
• a decrease in the average effective interest rate of 6 basis points during the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 (where effective interest rate is calculated as interest expense divided by the net average borrowings/obligations outstanding).
Results from Equity Method Investments
2025 vs. 2024
We recognized income from equity method investments of $89.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, compared to $92.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, a decrease of $2.7 million. This decrease was primarily driven by the following:
• a decrease in income from our investment in Red River Pipeline Company LLC to $10.9 million during the year ended December 31, 2025 from $20.4 million in the year ended December 31, 2024;
• a decrease in income from our investment in two other pipeline joint ventures to $7.4 million during the year ended December 31, 2025 from $11.8 million in the year ended December 31, 2024; and
• a decrease in income from our asphalt terminal equity method investment due to lower volumes and resulting revenue decreases.
These decreases was partially offset by the following:
• an increase in income from our investment in W2W Holdings LLC to $43.2 million during the year ended December 31, 2025 from $28.9 million in the year ended December 31, 2024.
Other Expense (Income), net
2025 vs. 2024
Other expense (income), net was $6.3 million of expense in the year ended December 31, 2025, compared to $6.3 million of income for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $12.6 million, or 200.0% primarily due to the following:
• an impairment recognized on two investments held at cost within other non-current assets for $8.6 million; and
• a pension settlement of $2.1 million.
Refer to Note 13 and Note 23 of our consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further information.
Income Taxes
2025 vs. 2024
For the year ended December 31, 2025, we recorded an income tax benefit of $6.8 million from continuing operations compared to an income tax benefit of $107.9 million from continuing operations for the year ended December 31, 2024, primarily driven by the following:
• an increase to pre-tax income of $38.9 million in the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to a pre-tax loss of $706.0 million in the year ended December 31, 2024; and
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• our effective tax rates were (17.5)% and 15.3% for the year ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, due to the impact of fixed dollar favorable permanent differences and changes in valuation allowance on certain attributes.
Refer to Note 15 of our consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further information.
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Refining Segment
The tables and charts below set forth selected information concerning our refining segment operations ($ in millions, except per barrel amounts):
Selected Refining Financial Information
Year Ended December 31,
2025 2024 2023
Revenues $ 10,551.3 $ 11,783.0 $ 16,406.9
Cost of materials and other 9,157.4 11,147.4 15,242.3
Refining Margin $ 1,393.9 $ 635.6 $ 1,164.6
Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization) $ 614.6 $ 596.6 $ 619.2
Refining segment EBITDA $ 800.7 $ (158.0) $ 560.7
Factors Impacting Refining Profitability
Our profitability in the refining segment is substantially determined by the difference between the cost of the crude oil feedstocks we purchase and the price of the refined products we sell, referred to as the "crack spread", "refining margin" or "refined product margin". Refining margin is used as a metric to assess a refinery's product margins against market crack spread trends, where "crack spread" is a measure of the difference between market prices for crude oil and refined products and is a commonly used proxy within the industry to estimate or identify trends in refining margins.
The cost to acquire feedstocks and the price of the refined petroleum products we ultimately sell from our refineries depend on numerous factors beyond our control, including the supply of, and demand for, crude oil, gasoline and other refined petroleum products which, in turn, depend on, among other factors, changes in domestic and foreign economies, weather conditions such as hurricanes or tornadoes, local, domestic and foreign political affairs, global conflict, production levels, the availability of imports, the marketing of competitive fuels and government regulation. Other significant factors that influence our results in the refining segment include operating costs (particularly the cost of natural gas used for fuel and the cost of electricity), seasonal factors, refinery utilization rates and planned or unplanned maintenance activities or turnarounds. Moreover, while the fluctuations in the cost of crude oil are typically reflected in the prices of light refined products, such as gasoline and diesel fuel, the price of other residual products, such as asphalt, coke, carbon black oil and liquefied petroleum gas LPG are less likely to move in parallel with crude cost. This could cause additional pressure on our realized margin during periods of rising or falling crude oil prices.
Additionally, our margins are impacted by the pricing differentials of the various types and sources of crude oil we use at our refineries and their relation to product pricing. Our crude slate is predominantly comprised of WTI crude oil. Therefore, favorable differentials of WTI compared to other crude will favorably impact our operating results, and vice versa. Additionally, because of our gathering system presence in the Midland area and the significant source of crude specifically from that region into our network, a widening of the WTI Cushing less WTI Midland spread will favorably influence the operating margin for our refineries. Alternatively, a narrowing of this differential will have an adverse effect on our operating margins. Global product prices are influenced by the price of Brent, which is a global benchmark crude. Global product prices influence product prices in the U.S. As a result, our refineries are influenced by the spread between Brent and WTI Midland. The Brent less WTI Midland spread represents the differential between the average per barrel price of Brent crude oil and the average per barrel price of WTI Midland crude oil. A widening of the spread between Brent and WTI Midland will favorably influence our refineries' operating margins. Also, the Krotz Springs refinery is influenced by the spread between Brent and LLS. The Brent less LLS spread represents the differential between the average per barrel price of Brent and the average per barrel price of LLS crude oil. A discount in LLS relative to Brent will favorably influence the Krotz Springs refinery operating margin.
Finally, Refining EBITDA is impacted by regulatory costs associated with the cost of RINs as well as energy costs, including the cost of natural gas. In periods of unfavorable regulatory sentiment, RINs prices can increase at higher rates than crack spreads, or even when crack spreads are declining. This can be particularly impactful on smaller refineries, where the operating cost structure does not have as much scalability as larger refineries. Additionally, volatility in energy costs, which are captured in our operating expenses and impact our Refining EBITDA, can significantly impact our ability to capture crack spreads, with natural gas representing the most significant component. Within Delek’s geographic footprint, we source the majority of our natural gas from the Gulf Coast, and secondarily from the Permian Basin, and we do not currently have the capability at our refineries to switch our energy consumption to utilize alternative sources of fuel. For this reason, unfavorable Gulf Coast (Henry Hub) differentials can impact our crack spread capture.
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The cost to acquire the refined fuel products we sell to our wholesale customers in our logistics segment largely depends on numerous factors beyond our control, including the supply of, and demand for, crude oil, gasoline and other refined petroleum products which, in turn, depend on, among other factors, changes in domestic and foreign economies, weather conditions, domestic and foreign political affairs, production levels, the availability of imports, the marketing of competitive fuels and government regulation.
In addition to the above, it continues to be a strategic and operational objective to manage price and supply risk related to crude oil that is used in refinery production, and to develop strategic sourcing relationships. For that purpose, from a pricing perspective, we enter into commodity derivative contracts to manage our price exposure to our inventory positions, future purchases of crude oil and ethanol, future sales of refined products or to fix margins on future production. We also enter into future commitments to purchase or sell RINs at fixed prices and quantities, which are used to manage our RINs Obligation. Additionally, from a sourcing perspective, we often enter into purchase and sale contracts with vendors and customers or take physical or financial commodity positions for crude oil that may not be used immediately in production, but that may be used to manage the overall supply and availability of crude expected to ultimately be needed for production and/or to meet minimum requirements under strategic pipeline arrangements, and also to optimize and hedge availability risks associated with crude that we ultimately expect to use in production. Such transactions are inherently based on certain assumptions and judgments made about the current and possible future availability of crude. Therefore, when we take physical or financial positions for optimization purposes, our intent is generally to take offsetting positions in quantities and at prices that will advance these objectives while minimizing our positional and financial statement risk. However, because of the volatility of the market in terms of pricing and availability, it is possible that we may have material positions with timing differences or, more rarely, that we are unable to cover a position with an offsetting position as intended. Such differences could have a material impact on the classification of resulting gains/losses, assets or liabilities, and could also significantly impact Refining EBITDA.
Refinery Statistics
Year Ended December 31,
2025 2024 2023
Total Refining Segment
Days in period 365 366 365
Total sales volume - refined product (average bpd) (1)
306,152 301,834 298,617
Total production (average bpd) 299,836 292,817 291,802
Crude oil 285,496 281,271 278,231
Other feedstocks 18,161 15,380 15,998
Total throughput (average bpd): 303,657 296,651 294,229
Crude Slate: (% based on amount received in period)
WTI crude oil 75.0 % 69.9 % 73.0 %
Gulf Coast Sweet Crude 6.3 % 7.3 % 4.3 %
Local Arkansas crude oil 3.4 % 3.4 % 4.0 %
Other 15.3 % 19.4 % 18.7 %
Crude utilization (% based on nameplate capacity) 94.5 % 93.1 % 92.1 %
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Refinery Statistics (continued)
Year Ended December 31,
2025 2024 2023
Tyler, TX Refinery
Days in period 365 366 365
Products manufactured (average bpd):
Gasoline 38,055 35,723 33,442
Diesel/Jet 32,470 31,755 28,670
Petrochemicals, LPG, natural gas liquids ("NGLs") 2,051 2,319 2,341
Other 855 849 1,691
Total production 73,431 70,646 66,144
Throughput (average bpd):
Crude Oil 73,091 70,009 63,210
Other feedstocks 1,922 2,299 3,617
Total throughput 75,013 72,308 66,827
Per barrel of throughput:
Operating expenses $ 5.02 $ 5.04 $ 5.08
Crude Slate: (% based on amount received in period)
WTI crude oil 74.8 % 79.2 % 79.5 %
East Texas crude oil 22.9 % 20.4 % 20.5 %
Other 2.3 % 0.4 % — %
El Dorado, AR Refinery
Days in period 365 366 365
Products manufactured (average bpd):
Gasoline 38,138 38,215 38,868
Diesel/Jet 29,118 29,843 30,061
Petrochemicals, LPG, NGLs 1,097 1,205 1,495
Asphalt 6,749 8,739 7,711
Other 1,149 1,237 877
Total production 76,251 79,239 79,012
Throughput (average bpd):
Crude Oil 74,712 77,993 77,423
Other feedstocks 2,960 2,886 3,262
Total throughput 77,672 80,879 80,685
Per barrel of throughput:
Operating expenses $ 4.86 $ 4.65 $ 4.59
Crude Slate: (% based on amount received in period)
WTI crude oil 81.0 % 66.5 % 67.3 %
Local Arkansas crude oil 13.2 % 12.2 % 14.0 %
Other 5.8 % 21.3 % 18.7 %
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Refinery Statistics (continued)
Year Ended December 31,
2025 2024 2023
Big Spring, TX Refinery
Days in period 365 366 365
Products manufactured (average bpd):
Gasoline 33,227 33,888 32,386
Diesel/Jet 23,403 25,157 22,390
Petrochemicals, LPG, NGLs 3,139 4,710 3,593
Asphalt 2,003 2,774 1,983
Other 3,982 3,883 3,129
Total production 65,754 70,412 63,481
Throughput (average bpd):
Crude oil
63,145 66,123 60,236
Other feedstocks
3,871 4,975 4,223
Total throughput 67,016 71,098 64,459
Per barrel of refined throughput:
Operating expenses $ 7.11 $ 6.66 $ 7.92
Crude Slate: (% based on amount received in period)
WTI crude oil
74.0 % 70.4 % 68.5 %
WTS crude oil
26.0 % 29.6 % 31.5 %
Krotz Springs, LA Refinery
Days in period 365 366 365
Products manufactured (average bpd):
Gasoline
42,614 34,268 40,805
Diesel/Jet
32,070 28,125 31,589
Heavy Oils
3,260 3,641 3,785
Petrochemicals, LPG, NGLs
6,456 4,942 6,525
Other
— 1,544 460
Total production
84,400 72,520 83,164
Throughput (average bpd):
Crude Oil
74,548 67,146 77,362
Other feedstocks
9,408 5,220 4,896
Total throughput
83,956 72,366 82,258
Per barrel of throughput:
Operating expenses $ 5.22 $ 5.23 $ 4.96
Crude Slate: (% based on amount received in period)
WTI Crude
69.9 % 63.7 % 77.4 %
Gulf Coast Sweet Crude
24.1 % 29.7 % 15.1 %
Other 6.0 % 6.6 % 7.5 %
(1) Includes inter-refinery sales and sales to other segments which are eliminated in consolidation. See tables below.
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Included in the refinery statistics above are the following sales to other segments:
Refinery Sales to Other Segments
Year Ended December 31,
(in barrels per day) 2025 2024 2023
Big Spring refined product sales to other Delek segments 10,575 18,053 21,165
Pricing Statistics (average for the period presented)
Year Ended December 31,
2025 2024 2023
WTI — Cushing crude oil (per barrel) $ 64.87 $ 75.88 $ 77.69
WTI — Midland crude oil (per barrel) $ 65.59 $ 76.85 $ 78.90
WTS — Midland crude oil (per barrel) $ 64.71 $ 75.95 $ 77.61
LLS (per barrel) $ 67.15 $ 78.30 $ 80.18
Brent (per barrel) $ 68.19 $ 79.84 $ 82.21
U.S. Gulf Coast 5-3-2 crack spread (per barrel) (1)
$ 20.42 $ 17.58 $ 27.02
U.S. Gulf Coast 3-2-1 crack spread (per barrel) (1)
$ 19.56 $ 16.94 $ 25.93
U.S. Gulf Coast 2-1-1 crack spread (per barrel) (1)
$ 15.83 $ 13.40 $ 14.70
U.S. Gulf Coast unleaded gasoline (per gallon) $ 1.91 $ 2.13 $ 2.34
Gulf Coast ultra-low sulfur diesel (per gallon) $ 2.21 $ 2.36 $ 2.72
U.S. Gulf Coast high sulfur diesel (per gallon) $ 2.00 $ 1.98 $ 1.85
Natural gas (per MMBTU)
$ 3.62 $ 2.42 $ 2.66
(1) For our Tyler and El Dorado refineries, we compare our per barrel refining product margin to the Gulf Coast 5-3-2 crack spread consisting of (Argus pricing) WTI Cushing crude, U.S. Gulf Coast CBOB gasoline and Gulf Coast ultra-low sulfur diesel. For our Big Spring refinery, we compare our per barrel refining margin to the Gulf Coast 3-2-1 crack spread consisting of (Argus pricing) WTI Cushing crude, U.S. Gulf Coast CBOB gasoline and Gulf Coast ultra-low sulfur diesel. For our Krotz Springs refinery, we compare our per barrel refining margin to the Gulf Coast 2-1-1 crack spread consisting of (Argus pricing) LLS crude oil, (Argus pricing) U.S. Gulf Coast CBOB gasoline and (Platts pricing) U.S. Gulf Coast Pipeline No. 2 heating oil (high sulfur diesel). The Tyler refinery's crude oil input is primarily WTI Midland and East Texas, while the El Dorado refinery's crude input is primarily a combination of WTI Midland, local Arkansas and other domestic inland crude oil. The Big Spring refinery’s crude oil input is primarily comprised of WTS and WTI Midland. The Krotz Springs refinery’s crude oil input is primarily comprised of LLS and WTI Midland.
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Refining Segment Operational Comparison of the Year Ended December 31, 2025 versus the Year Ended December 31, 2024
Revenues
2025 vs. 2024
Revenues for the refining segment decreased $1,231.7 million, or 10.5%, in the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to the year ended December 31, 2024. The decrease was primarily driven by the following:
• a decrease in the average price of U.S. Gulf Coast gasoline of 10.3% and ULSD of 6.4%.
These decreases were partially offset by the following:
• an increase in sales volumes (including purchased products);
• an increase in the average price of U.S. Gulf Coast HSD of 1.0%.
Revenues included sales to our logistics segment of $342.2 million and $353.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. We eliminate this intercompany revenue in consolidation.
Cost of Materials and Other
2025 vs. 2024
Cost of materials and other decreased $1,990.0 million, or 17.9%, in the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to the year ended December 31, 2024. This decrease was primarily driven by the following:
• decreases in the cost of WTI Cushing crude oil, from an average of $75.88 per barrel to an average of $64.87, or 14.5%; and decreases in the cost of WTI Midland crude oil, from an average of $76.85 per barrel to an average of $65.59, or 14.7%;
• small refinery exemptions received in the third quarter of 2025 resulting in a reduction of our Consolidated Net RINs Obligation and therefore a reduction within Cost of materials and other of approximately $356.1 million; and
• a decrease in lease expense as a result of reclassification of certain fees with Delek Logistics from lease expense to interest expense under finance lease accounting. These finance leases have no impact to the Delek US consolidated results as these amounts eliminate in consolidation.
These decreases were partially offset by the following:
• an increase in sales volumes (including purchased products).
Our refining segment purchases finished product from our logistics segment and has multiple service agreements with our logistics segment which, among other things, require the refining segment to pay terminalling and storage fees based on the throughput volume of crude and finished product in the logistics segment pipelines and the volume of crude and finished product stored in the logistics segment storage tanks, subject to minimum volume commitments. These costs and fees were $499.0 million and $516.3 million during the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. We eliminate these intercompany fees in consolidation.
Operating Expenses
2025 vs. 2024
Operating expenses increased $18.0 million, or 3.0%, in the year ended December 31, 2025, compared to the year ended December 31, 2024. The increase in operating expenses was primarily driven by the following:
• higher natural gas prices in 2025 and an increase in outside services.
• These increases were partially offset by a decrease in insurance costs and a decrease in lease and rental costs.
Refining Margin
2025 vs. 2024
Refining margin increased by $758.3 million, or 119.3%, for the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to the year ended December 31, 2024, with a refining margin percentage of 13.2% as compared to 5.4% for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, primarily driven by the following:
• a 16.2% increase in the Gulf Coast 5-3-2 crack spread (the primary measure for the Tyler refinery and El Dorado refinery), a 15.5% increase in the average Gulf Coast 3-2-1 crack spread (the primary measure for the Big Spring refinery) and a 18.1% increase in the average Gulf Coast 2-1-1 crack spread (the primary measure for the Krotz Springs refinery);
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• small refinery exemptions received in the third quarter of 2025 resulting in a reduction of our Consolidated Net RINs Obligation and therefore a reduction within Cost of materials and other of approximately $356.1 million;
• an increase in sales volumes (including purchased products); and
• a decrease in lease expense as a result of reclassification of certain fees with Delek Logistics from lease expense to interest expense under finance lease accounting. These finance leases have no impact to the Delek US consolidated results as these amounts eliminate in consolidation.
EBITDA
2025 vs. 2024
EBITDA increased by $958.7 million, or 606.8% for the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to the year ended December 31, 2024, primarily due to an increase in refining margin driven by increased crack spreads, increased sales volumes and receipt of small refinery exemptions.
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Management's Discussion and Analysis
Logistics Segment
The table below sets forth certain information concerning our logistics segment operations ($ in millions, except per barrel amounts):
Selected Logistics Financial and Operating Information
Year Ended December 31,
2025 2024 2023
Revenues $ 1,013.3 $ 940.6 $ 1,020.4
Cost of materials and other $ 509.3 $ 483.7 $ 532.6
Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization) $ 168.4 $ 122.7 $ 118.1
EBITDA $ 369.3 $ 342.7 $ 363.0
Operating Information:
Gathering & Processing: (average bpd)
Lion Pipeline System:
Crude pipelines (non-gathered) 66,125 69,903 67,003
Refined products pipelines 54,616 59,136 58,181
SALA Gathering System 9,454 11,568 13,782
East Texas Crude Logistics System 31,296 34,711 32,668
Midland Gathering Assets 219,782 217,847 230,471
Plains Connection System 182,523 333,405 250,140
Delaware Gathering Assets:
Natural gas gathering and processing (Mcfd) (1)
62,111 74,831 71,239
Crude oil gathering (average bpd) 138,575 123,978 111,335
Water disposal and recycling (average bpd) 107,415 128,539 108,907
Midland Water Gathering System:
Water disposal and recycling (average bpd) 587,419 280,955 —
Wholesale Marketing & Terminalling:
East Texas - Tyler refinery sales volumes (average bpd) (2)
68,052 67,682 60,626
Big Spring wholesale marketing throughputs (average bpd) — 44,999 77,897
West Texas wholesale marketing throughputs (average bpd) 8,737 5,828 10,032
West Texas wholesale marketing margin per barrel $ 3.42 $ 3.18 $ 5.18
Terminalling throughputs (average bpd) (3)
145,237 154,217 113,803
(1) Mcfd - average thousand cubic feet per day.
(2) Excludes jet fuel and petroleum coke.
(3) Consists of terminalling throughputs at our Tyler, Big Spring, Big Sandy and Mount Pleasant, Texas terminals, El Dorado and North Little Rock, Arkansas terminals and Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee terminals.
Logistics revenue is largely based on fixed-fee or tariff rates charged for throughput volumes running through our logistics network, where many of those volumes are contractually protected by minimum volume commitments ("MVCs"). To the extent that our logistics volumes are not subject to MVCs, our Logistics revenue may be negatively impacted in periods where our customers are experiencing economic pressures or reductions in demand for their products. Additionally, certain of our throughput arrangements contain deficiency credit provisions that may require us to defer excess MVC fees collected over actual throughputs to apply toward MVC deficiencies in future periods. With respect to our equity method investments in pipeline joint ventures, our earnings from those investments (which is based on our pro rata ownership percentage of the joint venture's recognized net income or loss) are directly impacted by the operations of those joint ventures. Items impacting the joint venture net income (loss) may include (but are not limited to) the following: long-term throughput contractual arrangements and related MVCs and, in some cases, deficiency credit provisions; the demand for walk-up nominations; applicable rates or tariffs; long-lived asset or other impairments assessed at the joint venture level; and pipeline releases or other contingent liabilities. With respect to our West Texas marketing activities, our profitability is dependent upon the cost of landed product versus the rack price of refined product sold. Our logistics segment is generally protected from commodity price risk because inventory is purchased and then immediately sold at the rack.
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Logistics Segment Operational Comparison of the Year Ended December 31, 2025 versus the Year Ended December 31, 2024
Revenues
2025 vs. 2024
Net revenues increased by $72.7 million, or 7.7%, in the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 primarily driven by the following:
• incremental revenue associated with the Gravity acquisition of $90.1 million and incremental revenue associated with the H2O Midstream acquisition of $41.0 million.
This increase was partially offset by the following:
• decreased revenue of $5.6 million in our West Texas marketing operations primarily driven by a decrease in average sales prices per gallon, partially offset by an increase in volumes sold and an increase in RINs revenue:
◦ the average sales prices per gallon of gasoline and diesel sold decreased by $0.21 and $0.16 per gallon, respectively;
◦ the volumes of diesel sold increased by 6.7 million and the volumes of gasoline sold increased by 2.2 million gallons; and
◦ RINs revenue increased $3.7 million due to increased RINs prices.
• decreased revenue due to recording certain throughput fees as interest income under sales-type lease accounting, whereas these fees were recognized as revenue during part of the prior year period; and
• decrease of $12.1 million due to the assignment of the Big Spring Refinery marketing agreement to Delek Holdings in the third quarter of 2024.
Revenues included sales to our refining segment of $499.0 million and $516.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and sales to corporate and other of $0.5 million and $1.5 million for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. We eliminate this intercompany revenue in consolidation.
Cost of Materials and Other
2025 vs. 2024
Cost of materials and other for the logistics segment increased by $25.6 million, or 5.3%, in the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to the year ended December 31, 2024. This increase was primarily driven by the following:
• incremental costs associated with the Gravity and H2O Midstream Acquisitions of $15.9 million and $3.0 million, respectively; and
• an increase of $11.2 million associated with the DPG dropdown which occurred on May 1, 2025.
These increases were partially offset by the following:
• decreased costs of materials and other of $7.2 million in our West Texas marketing operations was primarily driven by a decrease in average cost per gallon, partially offset by an increase in volumes sold:
◦ the average cost per gallon of gasoline and diesel sold decreased by $0.18 per gallon and $0.17 per gallon, respectively;
◦ the volumes of diesel sold increased by 6.7 million gallons, and the volumes of gasoline sold increased by 2.2 million.
Our logistics segment purchased product from our refining segment for $342.2 million and $353.5 million for the years ended December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. We eliminate these intercompany costs in consolidation.
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Operating Expenses
2025 vs. 2024
Operating expenses increased by $45.7 million, or 37.2%, in the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to the year ended December 31, 2024, primarily driven by the following:
• incremental costs associated with the operations of Gravity and H2O Midstream of $31.0 million and $10.6 million, respectively.
EBITDA
2025 vs. 2024
EBITDA increased by $26.6 million, or 7.8%, in the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to the year ended December 31, 2024, primarily driven by the following:
• incremental EBITDA of $42.6 million and $26.7 million associated with the Gravity and H2O Midstream Acquisitions, respectively; and
• an $0.24 per barrel increase in wholesale margins.
These increases were partially offset by the following:
• recording certain throughput and storage fees in interest income due to sales-type lease accounting that were previously recorded as revenue in prior year period; and
• lower revenue due to the assignment of the Big Spring refinery marketing agreement to Delek Holdings.
A detailed discussion of the fiscal year 2024 compared to year-over-year changes from fiscal year 2023 can be found in Part II, Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis, "Results of Operations", of our 2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed on February 26, 2025.
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Liquidity and Capital Resources
Sources of Capital
Our primary sources of liquidity and capital resources are
• cash generated from our operating activities;
• borrowings under our debt facilities; and
• potential issuances of additional equity and debt securities.
At December 31, 2025, our total liquidity amounted to $2,246.6 million comprised primarily of $1,620.8 million in unused credit commitments under our revolving credit facilities (as discussed in Note 11 of our consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K) and $625.8 million in cash and cash equivalents. Historically, we have generated adequate cash from operations to fund ongoing working capital requirements, pay quarterly cash dividends, repurchase common stock and fund operational capital expenditures. On February 18, 2026, our Board of Directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.2550 per share of our common stock. During the year ended December 31, 2025, 3,839,968 shares of our common stock were repurchased and cancelled at the time of the transaction for a total of $79.4 million. As of December 31, 2025, there was $464.2 million of authorization remaining under Delek's aggregate stock repurchase program.
Other funding sources including borrowings under existing credit agreements and issuance of equity and debt securities have been utilized to meet our funding requirements and support our growth capital projects and acquisitions. In addition, we have historically been able to source funding at terms that reflect market conditions, our financial position and our credit ratings and expect future funding sources to be at terms that are sustainable and profitable for the Company. However, there can be no assurances regarding the availability of future debt or equity financings or whether such financings can be made available on terms that are acceptable to us; any execution of such financing activities will be dependent on the contemporaneous availability of functioning debt or equity markets. Additionally, new debt financing activities will be subject to the satisfaction of any debt incurrence limitation covenants in our existing financing agreements. Our debt limitation covenants in our existing financing documents are usual and customary for credit agreements of our type and reflective of market conditions at the time of their execution. Additionally, our ability to satisfy working capital requirements, to service our debt obligations, to fund planned capital expenditures, to pay dividends and repurchase common stock will depend upon future operating performance, which will be affected by prevailing economic conditions in the oil industry and other financial and business factors, including oil prices, some of which are beyond our control.
As of December 31, 2025, we believe we were in compliance with all of our debt maintenance covenants, where the most significant long-term obligation subject to such covenants was the Delek Term Loan Credit Facility (see further discussion in Note 11 of our consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K). Additionally, we were in compliance with covenants during the quarter ended December 31, 2025. Failure to meet the incurrence covenants could impose certain incremental restrictions on our ability to incur new debt and also may limit whether and the extent to which we may pay dividends, as well as impose additional restrictions on our ability to repurchase our stock, make new investments and incur new liens (among others). Such restrictions would generally remain in place until such a quarter that we return to compliance under the applicable incurrence based covenants. In the event that we are subject to these incremental restrictions, we believe that we have sufficient current and alternative sources of liquidity, including (but not limited to): available borrowings under our existing Delek Revolving Credit Facility, and for Delek Logistics, under its Delek Logistics Revolving Facility; the allowance to incur an additional $400.0 million of secured debt under the Delek Term Loan Credit Facility (see further discussion of these facilities in Note 11 of our consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K); the ability to nominate each month whether to include volumes related to the Krotz Springs, El Dorado and Big Spring refineries for funding under the Inventory Intermediation Agreement; as well as the possibility of obtaining other secured and unsecured debt, raising capital through equity issuance, or taking advantage of transactional financing opportunities such as sale-leasebacks or joint ventures, as otherwise contemplated and allowed under our incurrence covenants.
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Cash Flows
The following table sets forth a summary of our consolidated cash flows (in millions):
Consolidated
Year Ended December 31,
2025 2024
Cash Flow Data:
Operating activities - continuing operations $ 538.2 $ (83.7)
Operating activities - discontinued operations (2.4) 16.9
Total Operating activities 535.8 (66.8)
Investing activities - continuing operations (697.9) (603.2)
Investing activities - discontinued operations — 361.7
Total Investing activities (697.9) (241.5)
Financing activities - continuing operations 52.3 221.7
Total Financing activities 52.3 221.7
Net (decrease) increase $ (109.8) $ (86.6)
Cash Flows from Operating Activities
Continuing Operations
Net cash provided by operating activities from continuing operations was $538.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, compared to net cash used of $83.7 million for the comparable period of 2024. The increases were a result of cash receipts from customers and cash payments to suppliers and for salaries resulting in a net $689.5 million increase in cash provided by operating activities partially offset by an increase in cash paid for debt interest of $41.6 million. During 2025 the receipt of SRE waivers resulted cash inflows due to the selling of excess RINs as well as reducing our need to purchase RINs related to certain refineries.
Cash Flows from Investing Activities
Continuing Operations
Net cash used in investing activities from continuing operations was $697.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, compared to $603.2 million in the comparable period of 2024. The increase in cash flows used in investing activities was primarily due to the $101.8 million increase in purchases of property, plant and equipment and a reduction in insurance and settlement proceeds of $5.5 million.
Cash Flows from Financing Activities
Continuing Operations
Net cash provided by financing activities from continuing operations was $52.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, compared to cash provided of $221.7 million in the comparable 2024 period. The decrease in cash provided was primarily due to net payments on long-term revolvers of $223.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to net payments of $350.1 million in the comparable 2024 period, net proceeds on product and other financing arrangements of $28.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to net proceeds of $14.0 million in the comparable 2024 period and net proceeds of term debt of $690.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to net proceeds on term debt of $518.2 million in the comparable 2024 period, primarily related to the issuance of the Delek Logistics 2033 Notes and the related repayment on the Delek Logistics Revolving Facility.
These increases in cash flows were partially offset by the receipt of net proceeds of $297.9 million from the Delek Logistics' public offerings of common units in the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $37.9 million in share buybacks, repayments on the Inventory Intermediation agreement of $193.2 million and a $30.3 million increase in distributions to non-controlling interests.
Cash Position and Indebtedness
As of December 31, 2025, our total cash and cash equivalents were $625.8 million, and we had total long-term indebtedness of approximately $3,233.1 million. The total long-term indebtedness is net of deferred financing costs and debt discount of $50.2 million. Additionally, we had letters of credit issued of approximately $417.4 million. Total unused credit commitments or borrowing base availability, as applicable, under our revolving credit facilities was approximately $1,620.8 million. The increase of $466.9 million in total long-term principal indebtedness as of December 31, 2025 compared to December 31, 2024 resulted primarily from the issuance of the Delek Logistics 2033 Notes and a decrease in net borrowings under the Delek Logistics Revolving Facility. As of December 31, 2025, our total long-term indebtedness (as defined in Note 11 of the consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K) consisted of the following:
• the Delek Revolving Credit Facility with no outstanding borrowings (maturity of October 26, 2027);
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• aggregate principal of $921.5 million under the Delek Term Loan Credit Facility (maturity of November 19, 2029 and effective interest of 8.23%);
• aggregate principal of $211.8 million under the Delek Logistics Revolving Facility (maturity of October 13, 2027 and average borrowing rate of 6.58%);
• aggregate principal of $400.0 million under the Delek Logistics 2028 Notes (due in 2028, with effective interest rate of 7.37%);
• aggregate principal of $1,050.0 million under the Delek Logistics 2029 Notes (due in 2029, with effective interest rate of 8.80%); and
• aggregate principal of $700.0 million under the Delek Logistics 2033 Notes (due in 2033, with effective interest rate of 7.63%).
Additionally, we utilize other financing arrangements to finance operating assets and/or, from time to time, to monetize other assets that may not be needed in the near term when internal cost of capital and other criteria are met. Such arrangements include our inventory intermediation arrangement, which finances a significant portion of our first-in, first-out inventory at the refineries and, from time to time, RINs or other non-inventory product financing liabilities and funded letters of credit. Our long-term inventory intermediation obligation with Citi was $119.5 million at December 31, 2025. See Note 10 of the accompanying consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for additional information about our inventory intermediation agreement. Our product financing liabilities consisted primarily of RIN financings as of December 31, 2025, and totaled $243.8 million, all of which is due in the next 12 months. See further description of these types of arrangements in the Environmental Credits and Related Regulatory Obligations accounting policy disclosed in Note 2 to our accompanying consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. For both arrangements and the related commitments, see also our "Cash Requirements" section below.
Debt Ratings
We receive debt ratings from the major ratings agencies in the U.S. In determining our debt ratings, the agencies consider a number of qualitative and quantitative items including, but not limited to, commodity pricing levels, our liquidity, asset quality, reserve mix, debt levels and seniorities, cost structure, planned asset sales and production growth opportunities.
There are no "rating triggers" in any of our contractual debt obligations that would accelerate scheduled maturities should our debt rating fall below a specified level. However, a downgrade could adversely impact our interest rate on new credit facility borrowings and the ability to economically access debt markets in the future. Additionally, any rating downgrades may increase the likelihood of us having to post additional letters of credit or cash collateral under certain contractual arrangements.
Capital Spending
A key component of our long-term strategy is our capital expenditure program. The following table summarizes our actual capital expenditures for the year ended December 31, 2025, by operating segment and major category (in millions):
2026 Budget Year Ended December 31, 2025 Actual (1)
Refining
Regulatory $ 29 $ 16.4
Sustaining maintenance, including turnaround activities 192 188.8
Growth projects 1 1.5
Refining segment total 222 206.7
Logistics
Regulatory 12 2.7
Sustaining maintenance 33 12.0
Growth projects 210 237.4
Logistics segment total 255 252.1
Corporate and Other
Regulatory 3 3.4
Sustaining maintenance 10 15.1
Growth projects 5 12.7
Other total 18 31.2
Total capital spending $ 495 $ 490.0
(1) Amounts exclude capitalized interest and internal labor costs of $31.6 million.
The amount of our capital expenditure forecast is subject to change due to unanticipated increases in the cost, scope, and completion time for our capital projects and subject to the changes and uncertainties discussed under the 'Forward-Looking Statements' section of Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. For further information, please refer to our discussion in Item 1A. Risk Factors, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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Cash Requirements
Long-Term Cash Requirements Under Contractual Obligations
Information regarding our known cash requirements under contractual obligations of the types described below as of December 31, 2025, is set forth in the following table (in millions):
Payments Due by Period
< 1 Year
1-3 Years 3-5 Years >5 Years Total
Long-term debt and notes payable obligations
$ 9.5 $ 630.8 $ 1,943.0 $ 700.0 $ 3,283.3
Interest (1)
250.4 481.9 250.5 154.9 1,137.7
Operating lease commitments (2)
30.9 37.1 7.8 9.2 85.0
Purchase commitments (3)
1,189.3 23.3 — — 1,212.6
Product financing agreements (4)
243.8 — — — 243.8
Transportation agreements (5)
172.4 238.9 198.2 106.3 715.8
Inventory intermediation obligation (6)
21.7 121.3 — — 143.0
Retail Stores obligations (7)
8.6 17.2 15.6 2.6 44.0
Total $ 1,926.6 $ 1,550.5 $ 2,415.1 $ 973.0 $ 6,865.2
(1) Expected interest payments on debt outstanding at December 31, 2025. Floating interest rate debt is calculated using December 31, 2025 rates. For additional information, see Note 11 to the consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
(2) Amounts reflect future estimated lease payments under operating leases having remaining non-cancellable terms in excess of one year as of December 31, 2025.
(3) We have purchase commitments to secure certain quantities of crude oil, finished product and other resources used in production at both fixed and market prices. We have estimated future payments under the market-based agreements using current market rates. Excludes purchase commitments in buy-sell transactions which have matching notional amounts with the same counterparty and are generally net settled in exchanges.
(4) Balances consist of obligations under RINs product financing arrangements, as described in the ''Environmental Credits and Related Regulatory Obligations" accounting policy included in Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
(5) Balances consist of contractual obligations under agreements with third parties (not including Delek Logistics) for the transportation of crude oil to our refineries.
(6) Balances consist of contractual obligations under the Citi Inventory Intermediation Agreement, including principal obligation for the Baseline Volume Step-Out Liability and other recurring fees. For additional information, see Note 10 to the consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
(7) Amounts reflect a rebate arrangement included in the long-term agreement with FEMSA entered into in conjunction with the Retail Transaction as well as certain underground storage tank cleanup obligations. For additional information, see our consolidated financial statements in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Other Cash Requirements
Our material short-term cash requirements under contractual obligations are presented above, and we expect to fund the majority of those requirements with cash flows from operations. Our other cash requirements consisted of operating activities and capital expenditures. Operating activities include cash outflows related to payments to suppliers for crude and other inventories (which are largely reflected in our contractual purchase commitments in the table above) and payments for salaries and other employee related costs. Cash outlays in 2026 are planned to include incentive compensation payments that were earned and accrued in 2025. In line with our long-term sustainable strategy, future cash requirements will include initiatives to build on our long-term sustainable business model, Environmental, Social and Governance initiatives and sum of the parts initiatives.
Refer to the cash flow section for our operating activities spend during the year ended December 31, 2025. While many of the expenses related to the operating activities are variable in nature, some of the expenditures can be somewhat fixed in the short-term due to forward planning on our level of activity.
Refer to the 'Capital Spending' section for our capital expenditures for the year ended December 31, 2025 and our anticipated cash requirements for planned capital expenditures for the full year 2025.
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Critical Accounting Estimates
The fundamental objective of financial reporting is to provide useful information that allows a reader to comprehend our business activities. We prepare our consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP, and in the process of applying these principles, we must make judgments, assumptions and estimates based on the best available information at the time. To aid a reader's understanding, management has identified our critical accounting policies. These policies are considered critical because they are both most important to the portrayal of our financial condition and results, and require our most difficult, subjective or complex judgments. Often, they require judgments and estimation about matters which are inherently uncertain and involve measuring at a specific point in time, events which are continuous in nature. Actual results may differ based on the accuracy of the information utilized and subsequent events, some over which we may have little or no control.
Goodwill
Goodwill in an acquisition represents the excess of the aggregate purchase price over the fair value of the identifiable net assets. Goodwill is reviewed at least annually for impairment, or more frequently if indicators of impairment exist, such as disruptions in our business, unexpected significant declines in operating results or a sustained market capitalization decline. Goodwill is evaluated for impairment by comparing the carrying amount of the reporting unit to its estimated fair value.
In assessing the recoverability of goodwill, assumptions are made with respect to future business conditions and estimated expected future cash flows to determine the fair value of a reporting unit. We may consider inputs such as a market participant WACC, gross margin, future volumes, capital expenditures and long-term growth rates based on historical information and our best estimate of future forecasts, all of which are subject to significant judgment and estimates. We may also consider a market approach in determining or corroborating the fair values of the reporting units using a multiple of expected future cash flows, such as those used by third-party analysts. The market approach involves significant judgment, including selection of an appropriate peer group, selection of valuation multiples, and determination of the appropriate weighting in our valuation model. If these estimates and assumptions change in the future, due to factors such as a decline in general economic conditions, competitive pressures on sales and margins and other economic and industry factors beyond management's control, an impairment charge may be required. The most significant risks to our valuation and the potential future impairment of goodwill are the WACC and the volatility of the crack spread, which is based on the crude oil and the refined product markets. The crack spread is often unpredictable and may negatively impact our results of operations in ways that cannot be anticipated and that are beyond management's control. Additionally, rising interest rates (which often occur under inflationary conditions) may also adversely impact our WACC. A higher WACC, all other things being equal, will result in a lower valuation using a discounted cash flow model, which is an income approach. Therefore, rising interest rates can cause a reporting unit to become impaired when, in a lower interest rate environment, it may not be.
We may also elect to perform a qualitative impairment assessment of goodwill balances. The qualitative assessment permits companies to assess whether it is more likely than not (i.e., a likelihood of greater than 50%) that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount. If a company concludes that, based on the qualitative assessment, it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, the company is required to perform the quantitative impairment test. Alternatively, if a company concludes based on the qualitative assessment that it is not more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, it has completed its goodwill impairment test and does not need to perform the quantitative impairment test.
For the 2025 and 2024 annual impairment assessments, we performed a qualitative assessment on the reporting units in our logistics segment, which did not result in an impairment charge nor did our analysis reflect any reporting units at risk. For the 2023 annual impairment assessment, we performed a qualitative assessment on the reporting units in our logistics segment except for the Delaware Gathering reporting unit, as we determined it was more likely than not that the fair value of the reporting unit exceeded the carrying value. Our annual impairment assessment was performed on a quantitative basis for our Delaware Gathering reporting unit during the fourth quarter of 2023. As part of our 2023 annual assessment, we recorded a $14.8 million impairment charge in the fourth quarter of 2023 related to our Delaware Gathering reporting unit within the logistics segment, which brought the amount of goodwill recorded within this reporting unit to zero. The impairment was primarily driven by the significant increases in interest rates and timing effect of system connections with our producer customers.
For the 2025 and 2023 annual impairment assessment, we performed a qualitative assessment on the reporting units in our refining segment, as we determined it was not more likely than not that the fair value of the reporting units exceeded the carrying value. The 2025 and 2023 annual assessments for the refining segment did not result in an impairment charge nor did our analysis reflect any reporting units at risk. For the 2024 annual impairment assessment, we performed a quantitative assessment of goodwill on the reporting units in our refining segment during the fourth quarter of 2024, which resulted in an impairment of $212.2 million during the year ended December 31, 2024 related to our Krotz Springs refinery reporting unit. The impairment was predominantly driven by depressed crack spread pricing in the near term combined with an increased discount rate. As part of our quantitative assessment, the aggregate fair value of all reporting units were reconciled to our market capitalization for reasonableness. Details of remaining goodwill balances by segment are included in Note 17 to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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Business Combinations
We recognize and measure the assets acquired and liabilities assumed in a business combination based on their estimated fair values at the acquisition date in accordance with the provisions of ASC 805, Business Combinations ("ASC 805"). Any excess or deficiency of the purchase consideration when compared to the fair value of the net tangible assets acquired, if any, is recorded as goodwill or gain from a bargain purchase. The fair value of assets and liabilities as of the acquisition date are often estimated using a combination of approaches, including the income approach, which requires us to project future cash flows and apply an appropriate discount rate; the cost approach, which requires estimates of replacement costs and depreciation and obsolescence estimates; and the market approach which uses market data and adjusts for entity-specific differences. We use all available information to make these fair value determinations and engage third-party consultants for valuation assistance. The estimates used in determining fair values are based on assumptions believed to be reasonable, but which are inherently uncertain. Accordingly, actual results may differ materially from the projected results used to determine fair value.
New Accounting Pronouncements
See Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a discussion of new accounting pronouncements applicable to us.
ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Changes in commodity prices (mainly crude oil and refined products) and interest rates are our primary sources of market risk. When we make the decision to manage our market exposure, our objective is generally to avoid losses from adverse price changes, realizing we will not obtain the gains of beneficial price changes.
Price Risk Management Activities
At times, we enter into the following instruments/transactions in order to manage our market-indexed pricing risk: commodity derivative contracts which we use to manage our price exposure to our inventory positions, future purchases of crude oil and ethanol, future sales of refined products or to fix margins on future production; and future commitments to purchase or sell RINs at fixed prices and quantities, which are used to manage the costs associated with our RINs Obligations and meet the definition of derivative instruments under ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging ("ASC 815"). In accordance with ASC 815, all of these commodity contracts and future purchase commitments are recorded at fair value, and any change in fair value between periods has historically been recorded in the profit and loss section of our consolidated financial statements. Occasionally, at inception, the Company will elect to designate the commodity derivative contracts as cash flow hedges under ASC 815. Gains or losses on commodity derivative contracts accounted for as cash flow hedges are recognized in other comprehensive income on the consolidated balance sheets and, ultimately, when the forecasted transactions are completed in net revenues or cost of materials and other in the consolidated statements of income.
The following table sets forth information relating to our open commodity derivative contracts, excluding our trading derivative contracts (which are discussed separately below), as of December 31, 2025 ($ in millions):
Total Outstanding Notional Contract Volume by Year of Maturity
Contract Description Fair Value Notional Contract Volume 2026 2027
Contracts not designated as hedging instruments:
Crude oil price swaps - long (1)
$ (14.0) 3,240,000 3,240,000 —
Crude oil price swaps - short (1)
12.3 3,549,000 3,549,000 —
Inventory, refined product and crack spread swaps - long (1)
(1.4) 1,086,000 1,086,000 —
Inventory, refined product and crack spread swaps - short (1)
1.4 1,075,000 1,075,000 —
RINs commitment contracts - long (2)
(0.1) 250,000 250,000 —
RINs commitment contracts - short (2)
(2.6) 112,000,000 112,000,000 —
Total $ (4.4)
(1) Volume in barrels.
(2) Volume in RINs.
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Interest Rate Risk
We have market exposure to changes in interest rates relating to our outstanding floating rate borrowings, which totaled approximately $1,133.3 million as of December 31, 2025.
We help manage this risk through interest rate swap agreements that we may periodically enter into in order to modify the interest rate characteristics of our outstanding long-term debt. In accordance with ASC 815, all interest rate hedging instruments are recorded at fair value and any changes in the fair value between periods are recognized in earnings. We expect that any interest rate derivatives held will reduce our exposure to short-term interest rate movements. As of December 31, 2025, we had two floating-to-fixed interest rate derivative agreements in place for a notional amount of $200.0 million, which matures in May 2027, and $500.0 million, which matures in November 2027. The estimated fair value of our interest rate derivative liability was $2.3 million as of December 31, 2025.
The annualized impact of a hypothetical one percent change in interest rates on our floating rate debt, after considering the interest rate swaps, outstanding as of December 31, 2025 would be to change interest expense by approximately $4.3 million.
We also have interest rate exposure in connection with our Inventory Intermediation Agreement under which we pay a time value of money charge based on Secured Overnight Financing Rate.
Commodity Derivatives Trading Activities
From time to time, we enter into active trading positions in a variety of commodity derivatives, which include forward physical contracts, swap contracts, and futures contracts. These trading activities are undertaken by using a range of contract types in combination to create incremental gains by capitalizing on crude oil supply and pricing seasonality. These contracts are classified as held for trading and are recognized at fair value with changes in fair value recognized in the income statement. We had no outstanding trading commodity derivative contracts as of December 31, 2025.
ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
The information required by Item 8 is incorporated by reference to the section beginning on page F-1.
ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
None.
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ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Disclosure Controls and Procedures
We maintain disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) under the Exchange Act that are designed to provide reasonable assurance that the information that we are required to disclose in the reports we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC's rules and forms, and such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. It should be noted that, because of inherent limitations, our disclosure controls and procedures, however well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, and not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the disclosure controls and procedures are met.
As required by paragraph (b) of Rule 13a-15 under the Exchange Act, we carried out an evaluation under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on such evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the end of the period covered by this report.
Management's Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. Our internal control over financial reporting is a process that is designed under the supervision of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, and effected by our Board of Directors, management and other personnel, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with GAAP. Our internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that:
• Pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of our assets;
• Provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP and that receipts and expenditures recorded by us are being made only in accordance with authorizations of our management and Board of Directors; and
• Provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on our financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies and procedures may deteriorate.
Management has conducted its evaluation of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on the framework in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Management's assessment included an evaluation of the design of our internal control over financial reporting and testing the operational effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. Management reviewed the results of the assessment with the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. Based on its assessment and review with the Audit Committee, management concluded that, at December 31, 2025, we maintained effective internal control over financial reporting.
We acquired Gravity effective January 2, 2025, and have included the operating results and assets and liabilities of Gravity in our consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2025. As permitted by SEC guidance for newly acquired businesses, management’s assessment of internal control over financial reporting did not include an assessment of internal control over financial reporting of Gravity. Gravity accounted for approximately 4.6% of total assets as of December 31, 2025 and approximately 0.8% of net revenues of the Company for the year ended on December 31, 2025. We are currently in the process of integrating the Gravity operations, control processes and information systems into our systems and control environment.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Our independent registered public accounting firm, Ernst & Young LLP, has audited the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, as stated in their report, which is included in the section beginning on page F-1.
The information required by Item 8 is incorporated by reference to the section beginning on page F-1.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Other than those changes made in connection with the Gravity Acquisition on January 2, 2025, there has been no change in our internal control over financial reporting (as described in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the quarter ended December 31, 2025 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
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Other Information
ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION
Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plans
During the quarter ended December 31, 2025, none of our directors or officers (as defined in Rule 16a-1 under the Exchange Act) adopted , modified or terminated a "Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement" or "non-Rule 105b-1 trading arrangement" (as those terms are defined in Item 408 of Regulation S-K), except as follows:
On November 13, 2025 , Shlomo Zohar , a member of our Board of Directors , adopted a Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement for the sale of up to 36,715 shares of our common stock, subject to certain conditions. The arrangement’s expiration date is November 13,2026 .
On November 25, 2025 , Reuven Spiegel , Executive Vice President, Special Projects , adopted a Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement for the sale of up to 30,000 shares of our common stock, subject to certain conditions. The arrangement’s expiration date is November 20, 2026 .
On December 5, 2025 , William J. Finnerty , a member of our Board of Directors , adopted a Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement for the sale of up to 15,000 shares of our common stock, subject to certain conditions. The arrangement’s expiration date is September 2, 2026 .
On December 2, 2025 , Avigal Soreq , Chief Executive Officer and a member of our Board of Directors , adopted a
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