Coffeyville Resources, formerly known as the COOP Refinery, is a company which owns an

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, United States. The refinery is owned and operated by Coffeyville Resources Refining & Marketing. The refinery employs about 500 people and produces approximately of

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per day, and of middle distillates per day, predominantly

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. Coffeyville Resources is owned by

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(), of

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. CVR Energy, Inc. was listed as a 2012

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company and was ranked No. 5 public company according to the Houston Chronicle.

Locations

* Headquarters -

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and

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History

The

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was built in 1906 by the National Refining Company, which was then the second largest oil company in the United States. Built on , the refinery processed of

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, compared to today's processing capacity. In 1944, National Refining Company sold the refinery to Cooperative Refinery Association. The nickname COOP would remain for years afterward. In 1982, CRA merged with

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. In 2000, Coffeyville Resources purchased the refinery and was led by former TOSCO senior executive Phil L. Rinaldi. The plant includes a

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plant adjacent to the refinery, owned and operated by Coffeyville Resources Nitrogen Fertilizers. Construction began on the

facility in 1998. The initial build of the nitrogen fertilizer plant included shipping an existing gasification plant to Coffeyville from the West Coast. A

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plant, originally located in Cool Water, California, was disassembled, refurbished, and its technology converted to be able to gasify

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instead of

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. It was then reassembled to form the heart of the nitrogen fertilizer operations. The plant is only one of two

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plants in

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which does not rely on

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as a raw material. It first began production in late 2000. It operates using a petroleum coke gasification technology, formerly licensed by

, as well as other technology, to produce approximately of

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and of Urea Ammonium Nitrate Solution (UAN) per year, and is among the lowest cost producers and marketers of upgraded nitrogen fertilizer products in North America.

Nitrogen Fertilizer Operations - CVR Partners, LP

Production Process - The technology and processes used to produce ammonia and UAN are complex. The gasifier converts low priced petroleum coke into a hydrogen rich synthesis gas. The

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is then converted into anhydrous ammonia in an ultra high efficiency ammonia plant. Subsequently, the ammonia is further upgraded into UAN in a fully integrated UAN plant. The majority of the petroleum coke used in the state-of-the-art gasification process is supplied by the Coffeyville Resources Refining & Marketing, refinery located adjacent to the fertilizer operations which is owned by its parent company CVR Energy. Historically, petroleum coke has been significantly less expensive than natural gas on a per ton of fertilizer produced basis and prices have been more stable when compared to natural gas prices. By using petroleum coke as the primary raw material feedstock instead of natural gas, CVR Partners’ nitrogen fertilizer business has historically been the lowest cost producer and marketer of ammonia and UAN fertilizers in North America. In 2011, Coffeyville Resources Nitrogen Fertilizers produced 116,800 tons of ammonia available for sale, and also produced 714,100 tons of UAN.

Units

According to CVR's filings with the US DOE's Energy Information Agency, the unit capacities for the CVR Coffeyville Refinery are presented below: In addition, the refinery is planning to build a renewable diesel/SAF plant using UOP's EcoFining technology to produce up to 30,000 bpd of SAF and/or Renewable Diesel.

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External links

Coffeyville Resources Official Site
Oil companies of the United States Oil refineries in the United States Companies based in Kansas City, Kansas Buildings and structures in Montgomery County, Kansas Energy infrastructure in Kansas