Brahms Oil Refineries Ltd., Geneva, has let a contract to SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., Montreal, to provide front-end engineering design for a grassroots 10,000-b/d refinery in Kamsar, Guinea. Source: News

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has restarted production at 30 of the more than 3,000 vertical wells in northeastern Colorado it took out of production for inspections in April after a 1-in. distribution line 200 ft from one of those wells exploded, destroying a nearby home and killing 2 people, a spokesman confirmed. Source: News

PJSC Gazprom Neft has started construction of a grassroots delayed coking unit (DCU) as part of a second phase of ongoing modernization works under way to reduce environmental impacts and improve processing capacities, conversion rates, energy efficiency, and production qualities at its 21.4 million-tonne/year Omsk refinery in Western Siberia Source: News

Faroe Petroleum Norge AS has completed drilling two appraisal wells intended to delineate the southern part of the 31/7-1 Brasse oil and gas discovery in 2016. Source: News

Karoon Gas Australia Ltd., Melbourne, has begun the front-end engineering and design phase for its wholly owned Echidna oil field in the Santos basin offshore Brazil. Source: News