Frontier Oil
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Frontier Oil , begun in 1949 as Wainoco Oil, is a U.S. energy company. Its headquarters are located in Houston, TX
, and its subsidiary company, Frontier Refining & Marketing, Inc., is located in Denver, CO
. Frontier's primary products are gasoline, diesel, and asphalt, and are marketed in the Rocky Mountain and Plains States.
Frontier Oil owns refineries in Cheyenne, WY
and El Dorado, KS
. The Cheyenne Refinery has a capacity of 52000 oilbbl/d (bpd) and the El Dorado Refinery
has a capacity of 110000 oilbbl/d.
On November 7, 2007, Frontier announced that the third quarter of 2007 had been the most profitable in the company's history. They reported a total income of US $137,200,000 for the quarter, and $432,700,000 for the year to that point.
Frontier merged with Holly Corporation effective as of July 1st, 2011 to form HollyFrontier Corporation.
Houston, Texas
Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...
, and its subsidiary company, Frontier Refining & Marketing, Inc., is located in Denver, CO
Denver, Colorado
The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...
. Frontier's primary products are gasoline, diesel, and asphalt, and are marketed in the Rocky Mountain and Plains States.
Frontier Oil owns refineries in Cheyenne, WY
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Cheyenne is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Wyoming and the county seat of Laramie County. It is the principal city of the Cheyenne, Wyoming, Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Laramie County. The population is 59,466 at the 2010 census. Cheyenne is the...
and El Dorado, KS
El Dorado, Kansas
El Dorado is a city situated along the Walnut River in the central part of Butler County, located in south-central Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 13,021. It is the county seat and most populous city of Butler County...
. The Cheyenne Refinery has a capacity of 52000 oilbbl/d (bpd) and the El Dorado Refinery
El Dorado Refinery
The El Dorado Refinery is run by The Frontier El Dorado Refining Company, and is part of the Frontier Oil Corporation. The refinery is located in El Dorado, Butler County in South Central Kansas. It has a crude distillation unit with a capacity of 110 kbpd....
has a capacity of 110000 oilbbl/d.
On November 7, 2007, Frontier announced that the third quarter of 2007 had been the most profitable in the company's history. They reported a total income of US $137,200,000 for the quarter, and $432,700,000 for the year to that point.
Frontier merged with Holly Corporation effective as of July 1st, 2011 to form HollyFrontier Corporation.