Flint Hills Resources

In case you missed our announcement about this week’s groundbreaking of the solar project at our Corpus Christi West refinery, check out a local news story here: https://lnkd.in/gEhYXTMB

Today, we're thrilled to celebrate the groundbreaking of our new solar installation in Corpus Christi. It was an honor to have our elected officials, community partners, and employees join us to share some wonderful remarks and turn the soil alongside our team. This 27-megawatt solar installation, developed in partnership with @DEPCOM Power, Inc, will soon provide nearly one third of our refinery's power needs, during optimal conditions. It is just one way in which we continue to identify ways in which to be energy efficient. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g8gPutMK #SolarPower #CorpusChristi #Stewardship #FlintHillsResources

Our Pine Bend refinery/Minnesota Community Report is hitting mailboxes this week! If you live in the area, watch for our newsletter coming to you soon. Everyone can always access it on our website too. Check it out and read all about the latest updates from Flint Hills Resources. #community #stewardship #ourbackyard https://lnkd.in/gJhUp4x8

Happy Labor Day to all of our employees who keep our operations running safe and efficiently 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We appreciate you. #MovingLifeForward #LaborDay

Evan Ramstad’s column today in The Minnesota Star Tribune provides a glimpse into the extraordinary work our employees and contractors at our Pine Bend refinery do every day to keep Minnesota moving. https://lnkd.in/gj8tmicR

We're going solar, again! Today, Flint Hills Resources announced that we will be constructing a 27-megawatt solar project to help power our Corpus Christi west refinery. This project is the company’s second large-scale refinery integrated solar installation in U.S. (The first was at the Pine Bend refinery in Minnesota with a 45-megawatt installation). The new solar installation will provide electricity to the plant which produces jet fuel, ultra-low sulfur diesel and gasoline, in addition to the chemical-building blocks used in thousands of everyday products. For our full press release, please check it out here: https://lnkd.in/g8gPutMK

Corpus Christi PREP is the local site of the Texas Prefreshman Engineering Program (TexPREP), which provides educational enrichment opportunities for high-ability middle school and high school students interested in pursuing science-based careers. Our team at the Corpus Christi refineries got the pleasure of working with these 55 students for the past 6 weeks in this program. This is the 12th year of our partnership and we've contributed over $225,000 for this amazing organization. As a special bonus, one of our employees, Jerry Benavides had his son participating this year. We see bright things in his future as well as he explores careers in STEM. #partnerships #community #stewardship

Today, we hosted Bring Your Kid to Work Day at our Flint Hills Resources Corpus Christi refineries, and it was a fantastic success! Families had the chance to: ?? Tour our state-of-the-art refinery assets ?? Conduct thrilling science experiments ?? Discover diverse career opportunities within our industry ?? Check out our impressive emergency response equipment ?? Enjoy delicious snow cones It was a joy to see the curiosity and excitement on the kids' faces as they explored and learned about the impactful work we do here. Thank you to everyone who made this event possible!

Project Clean Air Repair (Project CAR) was recently featured on WCCO | CBS News Minnesota as the Minnesota program expands into the east metro. The program, facilitated by Environmental Initiative works with local car repair shops to cover the cost of fixing emissions control and exhaust systems for qualifying lower-income Minnesotans. Nearly 600 cars have been repaired since we partnered with Environmental Initiative to start the program in 2017. https://lnkd.in/gcerN2WA