HOUSTON, April 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Frontier Oil Corporation
(NYSE: FTO) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Frontier Oil and
Refining Company has entered into a definitive agreement with Rocky Mountain
Pipeline System LLC (Rocky Mountain) to support construction of a new crude
pipeline from Guernsey, Wyoming a short distance to Rocky Mountain's Fort
Laramie, Wyoming tank farm and then to Frontier's Cheyenne, Wyoming refinery.
Frontier agreed to a ten year commitment to ship 35,000 barrels per day (bpd)
on the new pipeline and will concurrently lease approximately 300,000 barrels
of dedicated storage capacity in the Rocky Mountain tank farm. The pipeline,
which is designed to transport 55,000 bpd of heavy crude and is easily
expandable to 90,000 bpd, is expected to first flow oil in the second quarter
of 2007, shortly after Frontier's planned Cheyenne Coker expansion from 10,000
bpd to 13,500 bpd.
Frontier's Chairman, President, and CEO, James Gibbs, commented, "This new
pipeline will eliminate a crude oil delivery bottleneck and provide additional
crude flexibility for our 52,000 bpd crude processing capacity at Cheyenne,
while also allowing for future expansion opportunities."
Frontier operates a 110,000 barrel-per-day refinery located in El Dorado,
Kansas, and a 52,000 barrel-per-day refinery located in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and
markets its refined products principally along the eastern slope of the Rocky
Mountains and in other neighboring plains states. Information about the
Company may be found on its web site http://www.frontieroil.com .
This news release includes forward-looking statements concerning the
Company. These may include statements of plans or objectives for future
operations, statements about future economic performance or assumptions or
estimates. The accuracy of these forward-looking statements is subject to a
wide range of business risks and changes in circumstances that are described
in our reports that are filed from time to time with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. Actual results and outcomes often differ from
expectations.
SOURCE Frontier Oil Corporation
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Related links:
http://www.frontieroil.com
CONTACT:
Doug Aron of Frontier Oil Corporation,
+1-713-688-9600, ext. 145
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