A recent proposal for a project to ship refined petroleum products off the North Coast has come out ahead of the game compared to others, says a First Nations leader whose traditional territory takes in the proposed site. “They seem to have it way more together,” said Kitselas chief councillor Joe Bevan, in comparing the…

Backers of a proposed B.C. refinery want to transport Alberta bitumen in solid form inside tank cars along Canadian National Railway Co.’s existing lines and convert the substance into diesel and gasoline at a site north of Kitimat. Pacific Future Energy Corp. executives, who are seeking to export refined petroleum products to Asia, say the…

By Yadullah Hussain | January 26, 2015 5:56 PM ET TORONTO • The company proposing a $11-billion heavy oil refinery in British Columbia is pushing ahead with the project despite market volatility and is seeking $25-million in financing, according to its chairman, Samer Salameh. “We are raising $25 million and that would take us to…

Pacific Future Energy plans to build world’s greenest refinery in B.C. By Ovide Mercredi, Special to the Vancouver Sun, Photograph by: Ian Smith, PNG Canada will be celebrating 150 years since Confederation in just two years. What will First Nations celebrate? When I think about that, I think about my nation, the Misipawistik Nation, which…

A New Way of Doing Business with First Nations: Interview with Jeffrey Copenace Pacific Future Energy’s commitment to build and operate the world’s greenest refinery on British Columbia’s north coast is motivated by their belief that it is in Canada’s national strategic interest to gain access to international markets for Alberta’s oil, especially the fast…

Photo credit Todd Korol – Financial Post Samer Salameh, chairman of Pacific Future Energy, wants to build the $10-billion, 200,000-barrels-a-day first phase of its refinery even if no pipelines to the West Coast move ahead. The last time Canada’s oil industry was pitched a bold plan to build a large heavy oil refinery on the…

The skeptics who believe it’s not financially viable to build and operate an oil refinery on British Columbia’s north coast simply don’t understand the business model, says Robert Delamar, CEO of Pacific Future Energy, whose company is planning to do just that. “We are well past the need to defend the economic viability of our…

Stockwell Day’s refinery project on the B.C. north coast leaves little room for error. The Pacific Future Energy refinery, proposed by the firm of the same name and headed by several men with experience outside of the refining business, must build a plant against a backdrop of closing refineries across Canada, convince local First Nations…

David Black is used to it by now. Ever since the newspaper magnate went public in 2012 with his idea to build a West Coast refinery that would process Alberta bitumen into gasoline, jet fuel and diesel for export, his plan has been met with skepticism at almost every turn. It’s easy to understand why.…

CP  |  By Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press Posted: 06/10/2014 10:51 am EDT  |  Updated: 06/11/2014 1:59 am EDT CALGARY – A Vancouver company is pitching a $10-billion oilsands refinery on British Columbia’s north coast that aims to connect Alberta’s vast energy resources with Asian markets while avoiding some of the pitfalls others have encountered. Pacific Future…

Homegrown west-coast energy investors emerging as oilpatch heavyweights get bogged down Jun 11, 2014 Michael McCullough 0 From the time Enbridge began talking publicly about Northern Gateway almost a decade ago, the oil pipeline project—which is expected to get federal cabinet approval any day now—got off on the wrong foot by the company’s lack of…

Privately-held Pacific Future Energy Corp. says it is in the early stages of planning a $10B oil refinery on Canada’s west coast that it claims would be “the world’s greenest refinery” and built in full partnership with British Columbia’s First Nations, many of whom are strongly opposed to proposals to ship crude to the west…

Daily Oil Bulletin Tue Jun 10 2014   With a looming June 17 deadline for a federal government decision on Enbridge Inc.’s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, a Vancouver-based company is proposing to build and operate what it describes as “the world’s greenest refinery” on British Columbia’s North Coast. Pacific Future Energy Corporation said today a pre-feasibility…

Pacific Future Energy Raised Initial Funding for Project, Which Is at Pre-Feasibility Stage Vancouver-based Pacific Future Energy Corp. Tuesday said it is in the early stages of planning a multibillion-dollar oil refinery on Canada’s west coast. The company, formed in January, said the proposed refinery would process heavy oil from landlocked Alberta at an as-yet-undetermined…

CALGARY — A Vancouver company is pitching a $10-billion oil sands refinery on British Columbia’s north coast that aims to connect Alberta’s vast energy resources with Asian markets, while avoiding some of the pitfalls others have encountered. Pacific Future Energy Corp. says the refinery would be the “world’s greenest” and built in full partnership with…

By Peter Meiszner  Global News A Vancouver-based company with international backing is planning to build a $10 billion bitumen refinery project near Prince Rupert. Pacific Future Energy says the new refinery will be “the world’s greenest” and will be built in full partnership with First Nations. The company has already identified three sites, all in…

By Nia Williams (Reuters) – A Vancouver-based company said on Tuesday it was planning to build a C$10 billion oil refinery on the north-west coast of British Columbia that could eventually process up to 1 million barrels per day of oil sands bitumen. Pacific Energy Future Corp, which was set up in January, is looking…

CALGARY – A Vancouver company is pitching a $10-billion oilsands refinery on British Columbia’s north coast that aims to connect Alberta’s vast energy resources with Asian markets, while avoiding some of the pitfalls others have encountered. Pacific Future Energy Corp. says the refinery would be the “world’s greenest” and built in full partnership with B.C.…

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – There is another proposal for a refinery in BC to process heavy oil from Alberta, but details are few. Pacific Future Energy describes itself as a company created to build what it predicts will be a $10-billion bitumen refinery on the North Coast. Chairman Samer Salameh says he has more than two…

Jeffrey Jones CALGARY — The Globe and Mail A British Columbia-based consortium is proposing a $10-billion refinery for Canada’s West Coast, the second such plan aimed at winning support for processing and exporting petroleum products manufactured from the oil sands. A group called Pacific Future Energy said it wants to build a massive plant in the Prince…

Company will build the world’s greenest refinery, a near zero net carbon (NZNC) emission refinery for exporting processed Northern Alberta oil VANCOUVER, June 10, 2014 /CNW/ – Pacific Future Energy Corporation (Pacific Future Energy) announced today its plan to build and operate the world’s greenest refinery on British Columbia’s north coast. While we believe it’s…