Our History

Our refinery first planted its roots in August 1906 when it was built by The National Refining Company - the second largest oil company in the country at the time. Built on 75 acres, the refinery processed 2,500 barrels per day of crude oil - a humble beginning compared to today's 115,000 barrel per day processing capacity. Now Coffeyville Resources Refining & Marketing, LLC, this state-of-the-art facility is a catalytic cracking/delayed coking refinery that processes moderately heavy, medium sulfur crude oil from a broad array of domestic and international sources and predominantly produces clean transportation products such as gasoline, diesel fuels, and propane. For a closer look at the refinery's history, click on the centennial medallion to view a photo history that highlights the refinery's 100 Years of Refining.

Moving into the present day, our operations include a nitrogen fertilizer plant, Coffeyville Resources Nitrogen Fertilizers, LLC, which is located adjacent to the refinery. Construction began on this state-of-the-art nitrogen fertilizer facility in 1998. The initial build of the nitrogen fertilizer plant included shipping an existing gasification plant to Coffeyville piece by piece, all the way from the West Coast. A Texaco coal gasification plant, originally located in Cool Water, Calif., was disassembled, refurbished and its technology converted to be able to gasify petroleum coke instead of coal. It was then reassembled to form the heart of our nitrogen fertilizer operations.

In 2007, Coffeyville Resources Nitrogen Fertilizers produced 326,662 short tons of anhydrous ammonia, approximately two-thirds of which was upgraded to 576,888 short tons of urea ammonium nitrate.