A complex piece of equipment, the converging-diverging steam jet used in vacuum distillation units is subject to a wide array of malfunctions that are often misunderstood or overlooked by plant personnel. Source: News

Statoil ASA has let an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation contract to Aibel AS for a gas module for the Troll C platform in an effort to increase oil production and gas exports from Fram field in the North Sea. Source: News

US President Donald Trump has nominated Linda A. Capuano, currently a fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy’s Center for Energy Studies, to lead the US Energy Information Administration. Source: News

Sofiya gas-condensate field came onstream Oct. 27 in Pakistan, operator OMV Maurice Energy Ltd. reported. The Sofiya-2 well adds 15 MMscfd of natural gas and 1,400 b/d of condensate to production from the Sofiya development and production lease. Source: News

Eighty congressional Democrats and US Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.) petitioned US Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke to implement and begin to enforce the US Bureau of Land Management’s 2016 methane venting and flaring rule. Source: News

Light, sweet crude oil prices gained more than $1 to close above $55/bbl on the New York market Nov. 3—the second consecutive day the US benchmark reached a settlement high since July 2015. Source: News