Frontier Oil

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Frontier Oil
Type Public (NYSE: FTO)
Founded 1949 (as Wainoco Oil)
Headquarters Houston, Texas
Key people James R. Gibbs, CEO & Chairman
Industry Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing
Products Petrochemical
Employees 731
Website www.frontieroil.com

Frontier Oil NYSE: FTO, 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 52,000 barrels per day (8,300 m³/d) (bpd) and the El Dorado Refinery has a capacity of 110,000 bbl/d (17,000 m³/d).[1][2]

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.[3]

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  1. ^ General Information - Frontier El Dorado Refining Company
  2. ^ El Dorado Kansas - Frontier Refining, Inc. - Frontier Oil Corporation, Staff, Offices
  3. ^ Press Release - Frontier Oil Corporation

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