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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000950123-11-002826
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
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CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20110114
ITEM INFORMATION:		Other Events
FILED AS OF DATE:		20110114
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20110114

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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			CVR ENERGY INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001376139
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	PETROLEUM REFINING [2911]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-33492
		FILM NUMBER:		11528829

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		2277 PLAZA DRIVE
		STREET 2:		SUITE 500
		CITY:			SUGAR LAND
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77479
		BUSINESS PHONE:		(281) 207-7711

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		2277 PLAZA DRIVE
		STREET 2:		SUITE 500
		CITY:			SUGAR LAND
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77479
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>UNITED STATES<BR>
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>FORM 8-K</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>CURRENT REPORT</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Pursuant to Section&nbsp;13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><!-- xbrl,dc --><B>Date
of Report (Date of earliest event reported): January&nbsp;14, 2011</B><!-- /xbrl,dc --></DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 24pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>CVR ENERGY, INC.</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</DIV>


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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>Delaware</B>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>61-1512186</B></TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>2277 Plaza Drive, Suite&nbsp;500<BR>
Sugar Land, Texas 77479</B></DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt">(Address of principal executive<BR>
offices, including zip code)</DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Registrant&#146;s telephone number, including area code: (281)&nbsp;207-3200</B></DIV>

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filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt"><i>Samson Litigation</i>
<br><br style="font-size: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Between March 2009 and July 2009,
Samson Resources Company, Samson Lone Star,
LLC and Samson Contour Energy E&#038;P, LLC (together, &#147;Samson&#148;) filed fifteen lawsuits in
federal and state courts in Oklahoma and two lawsuits in state courts in New Mexico against
Coffeyville Resources Refining &#038; Marketing, LLC (&#147;CRRM&#148;), a subsidiary of CVR Energy,
Inc., and other defendants. In addition, in May 2010, separate groups of plaintiffs filed two
lawsuits against CRRM and other defendants in federal court in Oklahoma and Kansas. All of
the lawsuits allege that Samson or the other respective plaintiffs sold crude oil to a group of
companies, which generally are known as SemCrude or SemGroup (collectively, &#147;Sem&#148;), which
later declared bankruptcy and that Sem has not paid such plaintiffs for all of the crude oil
purchased from Sem. The Samson lawsuits further allege that Sem sold some of the crude oil
purchased from the plaintiffs to J. Aron &#38; Company (&#147;J. Aron&#148;) and that J. Aron sold some of
this crude oil to CRRM. All of the lawsuits seek the same remedy, the imposition of a lien or
trust, an accounting and the return of crude oil or the proceeds therefrom. The amount of the
plaintiffs&#146; alleged claims are unknown since the price and amount of crude oil sold by the
plaintiffs and eventually received by CRRM through Sem and J. Aron, if any, is unknown.
CRRM timely paid for all crude oil purchased from J. Aron and intends to vigorously defend
against these claims. In January 2011 CRRM filed claims against J. Aron in the United States
Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, requesting that J. Aron indemnify CRRM for any
past and future losses and expenses incurred by CRRM in connection with the lawsuits. CRRM&#146;s
claims currently are based on breach of contract, breach of warranty of title, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and misrepresentation.

<br><br style="font-size: 6pt"><i>Catalytic Cracker</i>

<br><br style="font-size: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CVR Energy, Inc. (the &#147;Company&#148;) announced that it expects its refinery in Coffeyville,
Kansas to return to a crude throughput of over 110,000 barrels per day on January 18, 2011 and
to full operations by January 22, 2011.  The Company&#146;s refinery experienced an equipment
malfunction and small fire in connection with its fluid catalytic cracker on December 28, 2010,
which caused the Company to reduce its crude throughput to just over 50,000 barrels per day
after December 28, 2010.  No one was injured in the incident.  Repairs to the damaged fluid
catalytic cracker are expected to cost approximately $4.5 million (before any insurance
recovery).  The Company also used the downtime to perform certain turnaround activities which
had otherwise been scheduled for later in 2011, along with opportunistic maintenance, which
cost approximately $4 million in total.  Our results for the year ended December 31, 2010 will be
minimally impacted (if at all) by the incident.  We expect that the incident will have a negative
impact on our results of operations for the quarter ended March 31, 2011 but that the incident
will otherwise not have a long-term impact on our results of operations.



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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;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.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Date: January&nbsp;14, 2011
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    <TD colspan="3" align="left">CVR Energy, Inc.<BR>
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    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/ Edmund S. Gross
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