Frontier Oil reports fire at Cheyenne refinery crude unit

Frontier Oil Corp. experienced a fire yesterday at approximately 5:40 a.m. MDT in the crude unit at its refinery in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The fire was extinguished within approximately one hour by refinery and city fire personnel. There were no injuries. The cause of the fire and extent of the damage is currently being assessed with preliminary estimates indicating the crude unit outage will be approximately two weeks.

Frontier operates a 135,000 bpd refinery in El Dorado, Kansas, and a 52,000 bpd refinery in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and markets its refined products principally along the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains and in other neighboring plains states.

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