SUGAR LAND, Texas, Sept. 17, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CVR Refining, LP (NYSE: CVRR), a refiner and marketer of petroleum fuels, today announced that it intends to sell its Cushing, Oklahoma, crude oil tank farm and currently is entertaining bids from potential purchasers. The 1.5-million-barrel crude oil storage facility sits on approximately 130 acres and includes six storage tanks, each with the capacity to hold 250,000 barrels of crude oil. The property has sufficient acreage for approximately 12 additional tanks of similar size. The assets for sale include a truck unloading facility with one Lease Automatic Custody Transfer unit and four 400-barrel tanks.

CVR Refining’s Cushing tank farm provides ample connectivity to other Cushing terminals and pipelines. Located in central Oklahoma, Cushing is a major trading hub for crude oil and the delivery point for West Texas Intermediate crude oil, which is traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

For more information, please contact Tim Kirwin, Vice President of Commercial Development, at (281) 207-3293 or tkirwin@CVREnergy.com. CVR Refining would like to close a sale of these assets by the end of the year.

About CVR Refining, LP

Headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas, CVR Refining, LP is an independent downstream energy limited partnership that owns refining and related logistics assets in the Midcontinent United States. CVR Refining’s subsidiaries operate a complex full coking medium-sour crude oil refinery with a capacity of 132,000 barrels per calendar day (bpcd) in Coffeyville, Kansas, and a complex crude oil refinery with a capacity of 74,500 bpcd in Wynnewood, Oklahoma. CVR Refining’s subsidiaries also operate and invest in supporting logistics assets, including approximately 570 miles of owned, leased and joint venture pipelines, approximately 130 crude oil transports, a network of strategically located crude oil gathering tank farms, and approximately 6.4 million barrels of owned and leased crude oil storage capacity.