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Thirty-two laid off at Sinclair refinery, 55 more jobs to be cut in September
https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/thirty-two-laid-off-at-sinclair-refinery-55-more-jobs-to-be-cut-in-september/article_61f17db8-03b6-11ed-9216-6f9d6f3a95c1.html?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral ^

Posted on 08/02/2022 8:13:19 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET

The Sinclair oil refinery is laying off 87 employees.

Thirty-two workers at the southern Wyoming refinery, one of the largest in the region, have already been laid off. Another 55 were notified they’d be let go at the end of September.

The cuts come just months after the refinery’s parent company, Sinclair Oil Corp., was sold in March.

The plant’s new owner, HF Sinclair Corp., hasn’t said much about why it decided to do layoffs ⁠— just that they were prompted by the sale.

“As a result of the recent acquisition, we are aligning our facilities to reflect best practices for operational excellence,” HF Sinclair Director of Corporate Communications Corinn Smith said in a Thursday statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at trib.com ...


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Refineries aren't being built and this one is closing? Can't blame the Chicoms or globalization for this. The new company is investing in 'renewables'. The rest of the article points to the victimization in it's wake. It's the 80's all over again. Something stinks here. Just read the quote of Corinn Smith. Foot soldier lieutenants swallowing this kinda crap.
1 posted on 08/02/2022 8:13:19 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Does anyone have the picture of the Biden sticker saying “I did that?”


2 posted on 08/02/2022 8:16:52 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

We’re losing the war my friends.


3 posted on 08/02/2022 8:19:32 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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I’ve been by this town. It is located on I-80 just east of Rawlins. Population of the town has always been around 400 people and the refinery the main employer. The town is appropriately named Sinclair and, yes, you can get gas there. At least you could the last time I drove by.


4 posted on 08/02/2022 8:19:38 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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Aye, you can't assume just because there is a name on a map that you can get services there. Or even that there is any current population there.

Casper has held up fairly well so far, but now I'm hearing more and more stories of oil workers packing up and leaving town. Biden's war on oil is pretty much a war on Wyoming as well.

5 posted on 08/02/2022 8:26:17 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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6 posted on 08/02/2022 8:26:45 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

This is not far from where I live. The refinery is subcontracting the specific work out instead of having employees. They are not closing down the refinery.

This company has done the same with other refineries they have purchased.


7 posted on 08/02/2022 8:27:05 AM PDT by wyokostur
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The article fails to answer several questions to put the layoffs in context. Will distillate production be cut as a result of the layoffs? Will the plant be shut down entirely? Would layoffs have been less had Keystone continued on track? Is there an overcapacity of refineries?


8 posted on 08/02/2022 8:27:17 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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A family member who ran one of the Fortune 100 companies says the big investment companies buy controlling shares of opposing companies then manipulate share values up and down with no care of anything but profit.

Cause a market change, short the planned loser, make $$ on the other.

Not disabling my add blocker but guessing this is that’s what’s going on here.


9 posted on 08/02/2022 8:29:06 AM PDT by jcon40 (Machinery is only as good as its design and quality of parts. A citizen is only as good as...)
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“Unexpected.”


10 posted on 08/02/2022 8:29:50 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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The last US oil refinery was built in 1976. Climate-idiots, along with leftist Democrat government have been working tirelessly to completely hobble this country’s ability to refine gas.


11 posted on 08/02/2022 8:32:51 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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All new bosses in just about any industry cull after taking control. They will be hiring next week. Nothing to see here. Move on.


12 posted on 08/02/2022 9:25:05 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Land is simply a place I visit until I can return to the sea.)
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The folks of Wyoming know that Jao Bai-din and Liz Cheney are to blame.


13 posted on 08/02/2022 9:25:26 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Most people are totally unaware that there is even a war being wage, let alone that there are multiple fronts to this war, both internal, as well as, external.

For them, it is just politics, and life, as usual.

Some people just never wake up to reality I guess.

14 posted on 08/02/2022 9:33:05 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: gitmo

Thanks.


15 posted on 08/02/2022 9:44:56 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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Butt, butt, butt.....can’t Liz order them to not get laid off?


16 posted on 08/02/2022 9:56:54 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: wyokostur

Correct me if am wrong.
About 70 years ago, I drove by that refinery, and what I remember was the gasoline stations closest to that refinery were higher in price than the gas stations farther away. - Tom


17 posted on 08/02/2022 10:03:39 AM PDT by Capt. Tom (.It's COVID 2022 - The Events, not us, are still in charge. )
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To: wyokostur

Isn’t this the perennial nature of the oil biz in Wyo? Boom and Bust, Rinse and Repeat?


18 posted on 08/02/2022 10:26:31 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: wyokostur

Same here, it’s just a few miles west of me and most of my community work there. They are reorganizing and consolidating their operations to their corporate model. Its going to be tough, but we will prevail. We still have enough coal to provide energy for the country for the next 150 years. Once the societal collapse happens, I take up a pick ax and shovel and start digging.


19 posted on 08/02/2022 11:47:33 AM PDT by Conservative4Life (thy merchants were great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. Rev18:23)
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To: Capt. Tom

It’s still that way. Unfortunately.


20 posted on 08/05/2022 8:28:59 AM PDT by wyokostur
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