Energy in America

Italian energy company Eni says a crane fell off a methane gas extraction platform, plunging into the Adriatic sea and leaving the crane's operator missing.

Concern about a slowdown in oil demand growth has weighed on prices.

A prominent Dubai bank is warning that non-oil companies across the United Arab Emirates have cut staff at their sharpest rate in nearly a decade amid an economic slowdown.

Shares were mixed in Asia on Tuesday after an overnight sell-off on Wall Street.

Libya's National Oil Corporation says production is to resume within hours at the southwestern Sharara oil field after control was retaken from an armed group last month.

Investor hopes for a U.S.-China trade deal pushed stocks broadly higher in early trading Monday.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said Monday that she's proposing legislation before construction begins on the Keystone XL oil pipeline that would create a way to go after out-of-state money that funds pipeline protests.

New Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who campaigned on a bold plan to "fix the damn roads" in the capital of the U.S. auto industry, will propose nearly tripling the state's per-gallon fuel tax, her office said Monday.

E15 gasoline contains 15 percent ethanol, versus the 10 percent found in most U.S. gasoline.

Enbridge Energy is delaying the startup of its Line 3 replacement crude oil pipeline through northern Minnesota by a year.

This is different than the California gold rush.

An Alaska tribe and five environmental groups say the federal government performed inadequate environmental review before approving petroleum exploration in a reserve.

Las Vegas officials are considering leaving Nevada's utility monopoly and entering into negotiations with an alternative electricity provider.

A day after ExxonMobil announced a significant natural gas deposit discovery off Cyprus, the ethnically split country's parliament approved the establishment of an investment fund for any future hydrocarbon proceeds.

Australian officials say an environmental disaster is unfolding in the Pacific after a large ship ran aground and began leaking oil next to a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Solomon Islands.

Stocks are opening slightly lower on Wall Street Thursday after the government reported that economic growth slowed down at the end of last year.

The Native American tribe leading the fight against the Dakota Access oil pipeline says an Army Corps of Engineers document shows the agency concluded the pipeline wouldn't unfairly affect tribes before it ever consulted them.

Cyprus says ExxonMobil has discovered a natural gas deposit estimated to contain 5-8 trillion cubic feet of gas.

The possibilities are endless for the North Korean economy.

Asian shares are mixed as investors fret over the status of China-U.S. trade talks after U.S. benchmarks closed mostly lower.