CVR Energy Responds to Short Form Merger Inquiry

SUGAR LAND, Texas, June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CVR Energy, Inc. ("CVR") (NYSE: CVI), a refiner and marketer of petroleum fuels and a majority owner of CVR Partners, LP (NYSE: UAN), a nitrogen fertilizer producer, today announced that it has received an inquiry regarding a short form merger of CVR with an affiliate of Icahn Enterprises LP under the April 18, 2012, agreement between CVR and Icahn. CVR stated in that Icahn Enterprises did not receive 90 percent of CVR common stock relating to the subsequent offering period of the Icahn tender offer, there will not be a short form merger between CVR and Icahn Enterprises as a result of the April 18 agreement. No short form merger is contemplated at this time.

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About CVR Energy, Inc.

Headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas, CVR Energy, Inc.'s subsidiary and affiliated businesses operate independent refining assets in Coffeyville, Kan. and Wynnewood, Okla. with more than

185,000 barrels per day of processing capacity, a marketing network for supplying high value transportation fuels to customers through tanker trucks and pipeline terminals, and a crude oil gathering system serving Kansas, Oklahoma, western Missouri, southwestern Nebraska and Texas.  In addition, CVR Energy subsidiaries own a majority interest in and serve as the general partner of CVR Partners, LP, a producer of ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate, or UAN, fertilizers.

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