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Coffeyville Resources Refining & Marketing Celebrates One Year with No Lost-Time Accidents

COFFEYVILLE, Kan.--Coffeyville Resources Refining & Marketing LLC announced that, as of October 19, its employees have worked one year or approximately 657,000 hours without a lost-time accident.

What is most significant about this achievement is that the refinerys 300 employees consistently put safety first while a tremendous amount of construction activity is taking place, said Chief Executive Officer Jack Lipinski. We are extremely proud of this accomplishment and believe it demonstrates our ongoing commitment to safety excellence."

The refinery also won a national award for its safety record earlier this year, the company said. The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association presented the refinery with the Gold Award for achieving a 42 percent reduction in the total recordable incident rate in 2005.

The company attributes its safety achievements to management and employees working together to increase safety awareness, as well as its ongoing investments in facility safety improvements.

About Coffeyville Resources LLC

Coffeyville Resources LLC is an independent refiner and marketer of high value transportation fuels and a premier producer of ammonia and urea ammonia nitrate, or UAN, fertilizers. Coffeyville Resources is one of only seven petroleum refiners and marketers in the Coffeyville supply area (Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa) and, at current natural gas prices, the lowest cost producer and marketer of ammonia and UAN in North America. Coffeyville Resources group of companies includes Coffeyville Resources Refining & Marketing, LLC, a 108,000 BPD oil refinery in Coffeyville, Kansas; Coffeyville Resources Crude Transportation, LLC, a crude oil gathering system serving central Kansas and northern Oklahoma; Coffeyville Resources Terminal, LLC, a refined products terminal in Phillipsburg, Kansas; Coffeyville Resources Pipeline, LLC; and Coffeyville Resources Nitrogen Fertilizers, LLC, which operates a unique coke gasification-based nitrogen fertilizer plant adjacent to the refinery that annually produces over 700,000 tons of nitrogen fertilizer products. Coffeyville Resources generated approximately $3 billion in combined net sales for the 12 months ended June 30, 2006, and had 570 employees as of June 30, 2006.