CVR Energy Selected as a Top Technology Innovator MONARCH BEACH, Calif., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CVR Energy, Inc. (NYSE:CVI), a refiner and marketer of petroleum fuels and a nitrogen fertilizer manufacturer, today announced that it debuted at No. 223 on the 2009 InformationWeek 500, an annual listing of the nation's most innovative users of business technology. CVR Energy was recognized for its advanced approach to information access and content management within its organization. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071203/CVRLOGO) "Our IT organization has worked diligently to focus on innovation and drive real value for our business," said Mike Brooks, CVR Energy vice president and chief information officer. "One area of our focus is on managing the many ways our employees are communicating. Important data now exists in e-mail, instant messages and voicemail--places that traditionally have been hard to manage with information access solutions. We've stayed ahead of the curve by implementing a technology system that can handle these new forms of data intelligently." To manage the growing volume of information within the enterprise, CVR Energy implemented Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), award-winning software from Autonomy Corporation. The software allows CVR Energy to analyze data across its eight offices to find trends and patterns in an efficient and cost-effective manner. "For more than 20 years, the InformationWeek 500 has honored the most innovative users of business technology," said InformationWeek's Editor-in-Chief Rob Preston. "Year after year, InformationWeek 500 companies harness new technology to improve efficiency, boost productivity, drive revenue, and establish a competitive advantage. We applaud this year's winners, and the CIOs and other executives whose ingenuity and risk taking are at the center of business technology innovation." InformationWeek identifies and honors the nation's most innovative users of information technology with its annual 500 listing, now in its 21st year, and also tracks the technology, strategies, investments and administrative practices of America's best-known companies. The InformationWeek 500 list is unique among corporate rankings as it spotlights the power of innovation in information technology, rather than simply identifying the biggest IT spenders. Additional details on the InformationWeek 500 can be found online at http://www.informationweek.com/iw500/. About CVR Energy, Inc. (http://www.cvrenergy.com/) Headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas, CVR Energy, Inc.'s subsidiary and affiliated businesses include an independent refiner that operates a 115,000 barrel per day refinery in Coffeyville, Kan., and markets high value transportation fuels supplied to customers through tanker trucks and pipeline terminals; a crude oil gathering system serving central Kansas, northern Oklahoma, eastern Colorado, western Missouri and southwest Nebraska; an asphalt and refined fuels storage and terminal business in Phillipsburg, Kan.; and through a limited partnership, an ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate fertilizer business located in Coffeyville, Kan. About TechWeb (http://www.techweb.com/aboutus) TechWeb, the global leader in business technology media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needs of technology decision-makers and marketers worldwide. TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed media brands in the business technology market. Today, more than 13.3 million* business technology professionals actively engage in our communities created around our global face-to-face events Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and VoiceCon; online resources such as the InformationWeek.com, Light Reading, Intelligent Enterprise, bMighty.com, and Advanced Trading; and the market leading, award-winning InformationWeek and Wall Street & Technology magazines. TechWeb also provides end-to-end services ranging from next-generation performance marketing, integrated media, market research, and analyst services. TechWeb is a division of United Business Media, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion. *13.3 million business decision-makers: based on # of monthly connections across TechWeb brands. For further information, please contact: CVR Energy InformationWeek Steve Eames Ellen Asuncion Vice President, Corporate Affairs Sr. Marketing Manager 281-207-3550 949-223-3622 http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071203/CVRLOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: CVR Energy, Inc. CONTACT: Steve Eames, Vice President, Corporate Affairs of CVR Energy, +1-281-207-3550, ; or Ellen Asuncion, Sr. Marketing Manager of InformationWeek, +1-949-223-3622, Web Site: http://www.cvrenergy.com/ http://www.techweb.com/ http://www.informationweek.com/

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