Calumet Specialty Products Partners Announces Changes in Directors

INDIANAPOLIS, May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Calumet Specialty Products
Partners, L.P. (Nasdaq: CLMT) (the "Partnership" or "Calumet") today announced
that George C. Morris III has been elected as an independent director of
Calumet GP, LLC, the general partner of the Partnership, effective May 8,
2009. Mr. Morris replaces Michael L. Smith, independent director and audit
committee chair, who gave notice to the board on May 5, 2009 of his intent to
resign as a director effective upon the filing of the Partnership's Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q on May 8, 2009. Mr. Morris will also replace Mr. Smith as
the chair of the audit committee.

"George has extensive energy industry and capital markets experience, as well
as an in-depth understanding of Calumet's business, all of which will
strengthen our board," said Fred M. Fehsenfeld, Jr., chairman of the board of
Calumet GP, LLC. "We also sincerely thank Mike Smith for his valuable
leadership and service as a member of our board."

Mr. Morris, 54, has nearly three decades of experience in energy and finance.
He is the principal of Morris Energy Advisors, Inc. and most recently served
as a managing director at Merrill Lynch & Co. until his retirement in March
2009. As part of Merrill Lynch's Energy & Power Group, Global Markets &
Investment Banking Department, Mr. Morris was primarily responsible for
account coverage of midstream, downstream and oilfield service energy
companies in the Americas in support of account coverage worldwide, providing
a full range of financial and strategic advisory services, commodity based
structured financing and principal investing transactions as well as public
and private debt and equity offerings.

Mr. Morris served as a managing director of investment banking at Petrie
Parkman & Co. until its acquisition by Merrill Lynch in December 2006,
specializing in strategic advisory services primarily in the midstream,
downstream and oilfield services sectors. He also served as a managing
director of investment banking at Simmons & Company International and as a
director of investment banking at The First Boston Corporation.

Mr. Morris holds B.B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Texas and a
J.D. from Southern Methodist University.

About the Partnership

The Partnership is a leading independent producer of high-quality, specialty
hydrocarbon products in North America. The Partnership processes crude oil and
other feedstocks into customized lubricating oils, white oils, solvents,
petrolatums, waxes and other specialty products used in consumer, industrial
and automotive products. The Partnership also produces fuel products
including gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. The Partnership is based in
Indianapolis, Indiana and has five facilities located in northwest Louisiana,
western Pennsylvania and southeastern Texas.

For more information, please visit the Partnership's website at
http://www.calumetspecialty.com.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Some of the information in this release may contain forward-looking
statements. These statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking
terminology including "may," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate,"
"continue," or other similar words. These statements discuss future
expectations, contain projections of results of operations or of financial
condition, or state other "forward-looking" information. These forward-looking
statements involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict and
may be beyond our control. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not
limited to the overall demand for specialty hydrocarbon products, fuels and
other refined products; our ability to produce specialty products and fuels
that meet our customers' unique and precise specifications; the impact of
crude oil and crack spread price fluctuations and rapid increases or decreases
including the impact on our liquidity; the results of our hedging and other
risk management activities; our ability to comply with the financial covenants
contained in our credit agreements; the availability of, and our ability to
consummate, acquisition or combination opportunities; labor relations; our
access to capital to fund expansions, acquisitions and our working capital
needs and our ability to obtain debt or equity financing on satisfactory
terms; successful integration and future performance of acquired assets or
businesses; environmental liabilities or events that are not covered by an
indemnity, insurance or existing reserves; maintenance of our credit ratings
and ability to receive open credit from our suppliers and hedging
counterparties; demand for various grades of crude oil and resulting changes
in pricing conditions; fluctuations in refinery capacity; the effects of
competition; continued creditworthiness of, and performance by,
counterparties; the impact of current and future laws, rulings and
governmental regulations; shortages or cost increases of power supplies,
natural gas, materials or labor; hurricane and other weather interference with
business operations; fluctuations in the debt and equity markets; accidents or
other unscheduled shutdowns; and general economic, market or business
conditions. When considering these forward-looking statements, you should keep
in mind the risk factors and other cautionary statements included in this
release as well as the Partnership's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K
and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, which could cause the Partnership's actual results to differ
materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement. The
statements regarding (i) increased Shreveport throughput rates, (ii) future
compliance with our debt covenants, and (iii) improvements in liquidity as
well as other matters discussed in this news release that are not purely
historical data, are forward-looking statements.

SOURCE Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P.

Jennifer Straumins, Investor Relations of Calumet Specialty Products Partners,
L.P., +1-317-328-5660