SUGAR LAND, Texas, July 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CVR
Partners, LP (NYSE: UAN), a master limited partnership and
manufacturer of ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) solution
fertilizer products, announced today that Stanley A. Riemann has been appointed to the
board of directors of the partnership's general partner, CVR GP,
LLC, effective July 14, 2011.
He will receive no compensation in this position.
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Riemann has served as chief operating officer of CVR GP since
October 2007. He also has
served as chief operating officer of CVR Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CVI)
since September 2006, and since
February 2004 he has served as chief
operating officer of Coffeyville Resources, LLC, an indirect
wholly-owned subsidiary of CVR Energy and the sole member of CVR
GP, LLC, the general partner of CVR Partners, LP.
For 30 years prior, Riemann held various positions with the crop
production and petroleum energy division of Farmland Industries
Inc. His last position at that company was as executive vice
president of Farmland and president of Farmland's energy and crop
nutrient division, responsible for managing the petroleum refining
and domestic nitrogen fertilizer operations of the company.
He also managed Farmland's interests in SF Phosphates in
Rock Springs, Wyo., and Hydro, LP,
a phosphate production operation in Florida, and all the company's transportation
assets and services.
Riemann also has served on the boards of a number of industry
organizations and currently sits on the board of The Fertilizer
Institute.
Concurrent with the appointment of Riemann, George E. Matelich resigned from the board of
CVR GP. Matelich continues to serve on the Board of CVR
Energy, Inc.
About CVR Partners, LP
Located in Coffeyville, Kansas,
CVR Partners, LP is a Delaware
limited partnership focused primarily on the manufacture of
nitrogen fertilizers. The CVR Partners nitrogen fertilizer
manufacturing facility is the only operation in North America that uses a petroleum coke
gasification process to produce nitrogen fertilizer and includes a
1,225 ton-per-day ammonia unit, a 2,025 ton-per-day urea ammonium
nitrate unit, and a dual-train gasifier complex having a capacity
of 84 million standard cubic feet per day of hydrogen.
SOURCE CVR Partners