{{Infobox company | name = Frontier Oil | logo = Frontier Oil 96x86.jpg | type = Public | traded_as = NYSE: FTO | company_slogan = | founded = 1949 (as Wainoco Oil) | defunct = 2012 | fate = merged with Holly Corporation to HollyFrontier Corporation | hq_location = Houston, Texas | key_people = Mike Jennings, CEO & Chairman | num_employees = 731 | industry = Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing | products = Petrochemical | website = [http://www.frontieroil.com/ www.frontieroil.com] }}
'''Frontier Oil''' was an energy company, originally based in Canada, that moved to the United States. Its headquarters were located in Houston, TX,<ref>"[http://www.frontieroil.com/contact/ Contact] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091128232828/http://www.frontieroil.com/contact/ |date=2009-11-28 }}." Frontier Oil. Retrieved on December 8, 2009.</ref> 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 {{convert|52000|oilbbl/d|m3/d}} (bpd) and the El Dorado Refinery has a capacity of {{convert|110000|oilbbl/d|m3/d|abbr=on}}.<ref name="front002">[http://www.frontieroil-eldorado.com/refinery_history.asp General Information – Frontier El Dorado Refining Company<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011026115050/http://www.frontieroil-eldorado.com/refinery_history.asp |date=2001-10-26 }}</ref><ref name="front003">[http://www.frontieroil.com/en/cms/?210 El Dorado Kansas - Frontier Refining, Inc. - Frontier Oil Corporation, Staff, Offices<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070904022738/http://www.frontieroil.com/en/cms/?210 |date=2007-09-04 }}</ref>
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.<ref name="names">{{cite web |url=https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/hrcorpreports/search/detail.php?company=Wainoco%20Oil%20Corporation&ID=1236 |title=Company Detail: Wainoco Oil Corporation |publisher=Canadian Corporate Reports, McGill University |accessdate=January 4, 2018}}</ref> In 1976 it became '''Wainoco Oil Corporation''' on its move to Wyoming in the United States.<ref name="names"/> It changed its name to Frontier Oil in 1996.<ref name="names"/>
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.<ref name="front004">[http://www.shareholder.com/FTO/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=273827 Press Release – Frontier Oil Corporation<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
Frontier merged with Holly Corporation effective as of July 1, 2011 to form HollyFrontier Corporation.<ref>''SEC EDGAR Filing defm14a'' [https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/110430/000095012311053589/d80547fdefm14a.htm Frontier Proxy Statement - May 23, 2011]</ref><ref>''Forbes.'' "Holly-Frontier Refining Merger: It Sure Took Long Enough." February 22, 2011. Accessed July 1, 2011. [https://blogs.forbes.com/christopherhelman/2011/02/22/holly-frontier-refining-merger-it-sure-took-long-enough/]</ref><ref>''Official Press Release.'' "HollyFrontier Corporation completes merger" July 1, 2011 [http://investor.hollyfrontier.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=588721] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720063432/http://investor.hollyfrontier.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=588721 |date=2011-07-20 }}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Companies|Texas}} * List of oil refineries
==References== {{Reflist|1}}
==External links== * [http://www.frontieroil.com/ Frontier Oil website] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20051022093929/http://www.frontieroil.com/popups/map_crude.asp Crude pipelines serving Frontier's refineries]
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