Frontier Oil was an energy company, originally based in Canada, that moved to the United States. Its headquarters were located in Houston, TX,"Contact ." Frontier Oil. Retrieved on December 8, 2009. and its subsidiary company, Frontier Refining & Marketing, Inc., is located in Denver, Colorado. Frontier's primary products were gasoline, diesel, and asphalt, and were marketed in the Rocky Mountain and Plains States.
Frontier Oil owned refineries in Cheyenne, Wyoming and El Dorado, Kansas. Its Cheyenne refinery has a capacity of (bpd) and the El Dorado Refinery has a capacity of .General Information – Frontier El Dorado Refining Company El Dorado Kansas - Frontier Refining, Inc. - Frontier Oil Corporation, Staff, Offices
Frontier merged with Holly Corporation in 2011 to form HollyFrontier Corporation.
History The company was incorporated in Ontario in 1949 as Wainwright Refineries Limited, changing its names to Wainwright Producers & Refiners Limited in 1953, to Wainoco Oil and Chemicals Ltd. in 1966, and to Wainoco Oil Ltd. in 1971. In 1976 it became Wainoco Oil Corporation on its move to Wyoming in the United States. It changed its name to Frontier Oil in 1996.
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.Press Release – Frontier Oil Corporation
Frontier merged with Holly Corporation effective as of July 1, 2011 to form HollyFrontier Corporation.SEC EDGAR Filing defm14a Frontier Proxy Statement - May 23, 2011Forbes. "Holly-Frontier Refining Merger: It Sure Took Long Enough." February 22, 2011. Accessed July 1, 2011. Official Press Release. "HollyFrontier Corporation completes merger" July 1, 2011
See also
List of oil refineries
References
External links Frontier Oil website Crude pipelines serving Frontier's refineries