UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

CVR PARTNERS, LP

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware		001-35120		56-2677689
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)		(Commission File Number)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

(Address of principal executive offices,
including zip code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (281) 207-3200

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Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

     On July 14, 2011, Coffeyville Resources, LLC (“CRLLC”), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of CVR Energy, Inc. (“CVR Energy”) and the sole member of CVR GP, LLC (“CVR GP”), the general partner of CVR Partners, LP (the “Partnership”), appointed Stanley A. Riemann to the board of directors of CVR GP (the “Board”). Mr. Riemann will not receive any compensation for serving on the Board.

     Mr. Riemann has served as chief operating officer of CVR GP since October 2007. He has also served as chief operating officer of CVR Energy since September 2006, and chief operating officer of CRLLC since February 2004. Prior to joining CRLLC in February 2004, Mr. Riemann held various positions associated with the Crop Production and Petroleum Energy Division of Farmland Industries, Inc. (“Farmland”) for over 30 years, including, most recently, Executive Vice President of Farmland and President of Farmland’s Energy and Crop Nutrient Division. In this capacity, he was directly responsible for managing the petroleum refining operation and all domestic fertilizer operations, which included the Trinidad and Tobago nitrogen fertilizer operations. His leadership also extended to managing Farmland’s interests in SF Phosphates in Rock Springs, Wyoming and Farmland Hydro, L.P., a phosphate production operation in Florida and managing all company-wide transportation assets and services. Mr. Riemann has served as a board member and board chairman on several industry organizations including the Phosphate Potash Institute, the Florida Phosphate Council and the International Fertilizer Association. He currently serves on the board of The Fertilizer Institute.

     Mr. Riemann has had no direct or indirect material interest in any transaction or series of similar transactions contemplated by Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K other than through his employment with CVR Energy and CRLLC. For a discussion of relationships between the Partnership, CVR GP, CRLLC and CVR Energy, please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions,” which is incorporated herein by reference from the Partnership’s prospectus dated April 7, 2011 and filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(4) on April 11, 2011.

     Also on July 14, 2011, concurrent with the appointment of Mr. Riemann to the Board, an existing director of CVR GP, George E. Matelich, resigned from the Board. Mr. Matelich remains a member of the board of directors of CVR Energy.

Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.

     Furnished with this Current Report on Form 8-K is a press release announcing the appointment of Mr. Riemann as a director of CVR GP.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

The following exhibit is being “furnished” as part of this Current Report on Form 8-K:

99.1     Press release, dated July 20, 2011.

SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

     Date: July 20, 2011

Exhibit 99.1

CVR Partners Announces Appointment
Of Stanley A. Riemann to Board of Its General Partner

SUGAR LAND, Texas (July 20, 2011) — CVR Partners, LP (NYSE: UAN), a master limited partnership and manufacturer of ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) solution fertilizer products, announced today that Stanley A. Riemann has been appointed to the board of directors of the partnership’s general partner, CVR GP, LLC, effective July 14, 2011. He will receive no compensation in this position.

Riemann has served as chief operating officer of CVR GP since October 2007. He also has served as chief operating officer of CVR Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CVI) since September 2006, and since February 2004 he has served as chief operating officer of Coffeyville Resources, LLC, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of CVR Energy and the sole member of CVR GP, LLC, the general partner of CVR Partners, LP.

For 30 years prior, Riemann held various positions with the crop production and petroleum energy division of Farmland Industries Inc. His last position at that company was as executive vice president of Farmland and president of Farmland’s energy and crop nutrient division, responsible for managing the petroleum refining and domestic nitrogen fertilizer operations of the company.

He also managed Farmland’s interests in SF Phosphates in Rock Springs, Wyo., and Hydro, LP, a phosphate production operation in Florida, and all the company’s transportation assets and services.

Riemann also has served on the boards of a number of industry organizations and currently sits on the board of The Fertilizer Institute.

Concurrent with the appointment of Riemann, George E. Matelich resigned from the board of CVR GP. Matelich continues to serve on the Board of CVR Energy, Inc.

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About CVR Partners, LP

Located in Coffeyville, Kansas, CVR Partners, LP is a Delaware limited partnership focused primarily on the manufacture of nitrogen fertilizers. The CVR Partners nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing facility is the only operation in North America that uses a petroleum coke gasification process to produce nitrogen fertilizer and includes a 1,225 ton-per-day ammonia unit, a 2,025 ton-per-day urea ammonium nitrate unit, and a dual-train gasifier complex having a capacity of 84 million standard cubic feet per day of hydrogen.

For further information, please contact:

Investor Relations:		Media Relations:
Jay Finks		Steve Eames
281-207-3464		281-207-3550
InvestorRelations@CVREnergy.com		MediaRelations@CVREnergy.com