CVR Energy To Begin A Regular Quarterly Cash Dividend Of $0.08 Per Share

SUGAR LAND, Texas, Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CVR Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CVI), a refiner and marketer of petroleum fuels and a majority owner of CVR Partners, LP (NYSE:UAN), a nitrogen fertilizer producer, announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.08 per common share, the first of which will be paid following the end of the company's first quarter on a date to be set by the Board.  The Board reached its decision to initiate a regular quarterly dividend after an extensive review of the company's financial performance and confidence in its future prospects and believes it is consistent with its continuing commitment to deliver long-term value for shareholders. 

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As part of that commitment, the Board also intends to sell a portion of the company's investment in CVR Partners to pay for a special dividend to shareholders and strengthen the company's balance sheet.  The Board believes that a sale of a portion of the company's interest offers the best opportunity to deliver significant value to shareholders in a reasonable time frame with minimal execution risk or structural impediments.  The size, time and manner of the sale will be disclosed when the transaction is implemented.

"Given the projected cash generation of our refining business, the distributions we receive from our ownership in CVR Partners and our strong financial position, our Board determined after careful review of all its strategic options that it was appropriate to return a meaningful amount of cash to our shareholders. We intend to introduce a regular quarterly cash dividend that is in-line with our refining peers and a special dividend funded from the sale of a portion of our interest in CVR Partners," said Jack Lipinski, chief executive officer of CVR Energy. "We are proud of our performance, confident in our prospects and look forward to continuing our long-term strategy of providing outstanding returns for our shareholders."

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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 than185,000 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 central Kansas, Oklahoma, western Missouri and southwest Nebraska.  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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