Preem lets contract for Lysekil refinery

Swedish refiner Preem AB, a wholly owned subsidiary of Corral Petroleum Holdings AB, Stockholm, has let a contract to Amec Foster Wheeler (AFW) for the planned expansion of vacuum distillation capacity its 11 million-tonne/year refinery in Lysekil, Sweden. Source: News


Study links acceptance, energy marketing

Social acceptance is central to marketing Canadian energy, asserts new policy recommendations from the C.D. Howe Institute, Toronto. Source: News


PNR to stay the course in Spraberry-Wolfcamp in 2016

Pioneer Natural Resources Co., Irving, Tex., plans a preliminary 2016 capital program of $2.4-2.6 billion, allowing the company to maintain overall production growth boosted by its Spraberry-Wolfcamp acreage. Source: News


TransCanada starts legal actions after Keystone XL permit denial

TransCanada Corp. said it will submit a claim that US President Barack Obama’s Nov. 6 denial of the company’s Keystone XL crude oil pipeline’s cross-border permit application was arbitrary and unjustified under Section 6 of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Source: News


Suriname commissions newly expanded refinery

Suriname state oil firm Staatsolie has completed the long-planned major expansion and efficiency project to double crude processing capacity and expand fuel production at the Tout Lui Faut refining complex about 12 miles south of the country’s capital city of Paramaribo. Source: News


China’s Hebei Haiwei lets contract for polypropylene unit

Hebei Haiwei Group Co. Ltd. has let a contract to CB&I, Houston, to provide technology licensing and engineering design for a polypropylene (PP) unit to be built in Jingxian, Hebei Province, China. Source: News