PKN Orlen of Poland Buys Birchill to Double Canadian Oil Output

PKN Orlen SA, Poland’s biggest oil company, agreed to buy Birchill Exploration Ltd to double its crude production in Canada.

Orlen, which in September bought Canada’s TriOil Resources Ltd for C$183.7 million ($169 million) in its first foreign expansion into oil production, plans to complete the transaction by the end of June, the state-controlled company said in a regulatory statement today. Orlen, based in Plock, Poland, didn’t disclose the purchase price.