DALLAS, Feb. 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Alon USA Energy, Inc. (NYSE: ALJ) ("Alon") today announced that its Board of Directors has approved the regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.15 per share. The dividend is payable on March 18, 2016, to stockholders of record at the close of business on February 26, 2016.

Alon USA Energy, Inc., headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products, operating primarily in the South Central, Southwestern and Western regions of the United States. Alon owns 100% of the general partner and 81.6% of the limited partner interests in Alon USA Partners, LP (NYSE: ALDW), which owns a crude oil refinery in Big Spring, Texas, with a crude oil throughput capacity of 73,000 barrels per day ("bpd") and an integrated wholesale marketing business. In addition, Alon directly owns a crude oil refinery in Krotz Springs, Louisiana, with a crude oil throughput capacity of 74,000 bpd. Alon also owns crude oil refineries in California, which have not processed crude oil since 2012. Alon is a leading marketer of asphalt, which it distributes primarily through asphalt terminals located predominately in the Southwestern and Western United States. Alon is the largest 7-Eleven licensee in the United States and operates approximately 300 convenience stores which also market motor fuels in Central and West Texas and New Mexico.



    Contacts:                         Stacey Hudson

                                      Investor Relations Manager

                                      Alon USA Energy, Inc.

                                      972-367-3808


                                       Investors:  Jack Lascar/Stephanie
                                       Zhadkevich

                                      Dennard     Lascar Associates, LLC

                                      713-529-6600


                                      Media:  Blake Lewis

                                      Lewis Public Relations

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SOURCE Alon USA Energy, Inc.