Statoil lets EPCI contract for Troll C gas module

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


Trump nominates Capuano to lead US EIA

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


US Congressional Democrats ask Zinke to implement BLM methane rule

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


MARKET WATCH: NYMEX oil ends week with 2017 high closing

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