Frontier Oil
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| Public | |
| Traded as | NYSE: FTO |
| Industry | Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing |
| Founded | 1949 (as Wainoco Oil) |
| Headquarters | Houston, Texas |
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Key people
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Mike Jennings, CEO & Chairman |
| Products | Petrochemical |
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Number of employees
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731 |
| Website | www.frontieroil.com |
Frontier Oil, begun in 1949 as Wainoco Oil, was a U.S. energy company. Its headquarters were located in Houston, TX, and its subsidiary company, Frontier Refining & Marketing, Inc., is located in Denver, CO. 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, 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).
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 1, 2011 to form HollyFrontier Corporation.
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