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CORPORATE MOVES Wyoming OIL REFINERY’S NEW FRONTIER I n January, Frontier Refining Inc. broke ground at the site of its new $15 million, 25,000-squarefoot administration building in Cheyenne, WY. The office will provide a modern working environment for about 120 employees of Frontier’s existing oil refinery on the south side of Cheyenne. The refinery, with a 52,000barrel capacity, is in the final stages of a $100 million reconstruction of its coking plant. A comparable amount will be spent on environmental and safety programs, new boilers and air compressors, and upgrades to the piping system, according to Mike Milam, Frontier’s vice president and plant manager. Milam also explains that the administration building is on a fasttrack construction schedule and he projects it will be completed by the end of the year. The surrounding environment was considered during the project’s planning stage, as the new building will have a brick facade designed to match and complement Cheyenne’s downtown architecture. Rather than demolishing them, Frontier moved four homes from the building site to a new location where they were donated to a lowincome housing development. Cheyenne may be the but that’s not all State Capital, Two Power Companies Follow the Wind ocky Mountain Power plans to begin operating RGlenrock, WY,windOctober. Situated miles14,000 its 66-turbine farm, located 12 north of by on acres of company-owned land, the wind farm will generate 99 megawatts of renewable energy, enough electricity to power nearly 30,000 homes. Rocky Mountain Power President Richard Walje believes that the wind farm, built on the site of a coal mine used from 1958 until 2000, will add “new costeffective renewable energy to our electrical system and achieve a more balanced mix of resources used to generate electricity.” Tasco Engineering, the firm that designed and built transmission lines connected to Rocky Mountain Power’s distribution system, announced plans for a smaller wind farm, located 20 miles east of Evanston, WY. Set on six square miles of land near Interstate 80, Tasco’s 29-turbine project aims to begin generating electricity by the spring. Tasco employed 100 people during construction and will need 20 permanent workers to operate the wind farm after all production phases are completed. “Those are good-paying jobs,” says Gary Tassainer, president of Tasco. “We’re talking $40K and up.” Cheyenne means Business • A major transportation hub • Supportive Business Climate • Favorable tax structure • Among the lowest operating costs in the Nation • Employee Training: Including IST • Robust telecom and data capacity Find out what many industry leaders have already discovered in Cheyenne, Wyoming One Depot Square 121 W. 15th St., Suite 304 P.O. Box 1045 Cheyenne, WY 82003-1045 www.cheyenneleads.org (800) 255-0742 #4202 at www.BusinessFacilities.com 38 FEBRUARY 2008 PHOTO CREDITS: FRONTIER REFINING INC; COMSTOCK IMAGES http://www.cheyenneleads.org http://www.cheyenneleads.org http://www.BusinessFacilities.com

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