HollyFrontier announced they will convert their refinery in Cheyenne, Wyoming, to produce renewable biodiesel, one of the plants at the center of the 10th Circuit Court case in which the court ruled a small refinery exemptions (SRE) granted for the 2016 compliance year was invalid.
The company said it would spend between $125 million and $175 million to convert the facility to produce around 90 million gallons of renewable diesel per year. Completion is targeted for the first quarter of 2022. The company said it would halt petroleum refining at the site and would reduce its workforce.
“This decision was primarily based on the expectation that future free cash flow generation in Cheyenne would be challenged due to lower gross margins resulting from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and compressed crude differentials resulting from dislocations in the crude oil market, coupled with forecasted uncompetitive operating and maintenance costs and the anticipated loss of the Environmental Protection Agency’s small refinery exemption,” the company stated.
This certainly indicates that the firm will not be pursuing a challenge to the court ruling, keeping attention on EPA and how they intend to address the ruling.
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