Energy in America

Kuwait has opened a week of conferences seeking aid for rebuilding Iraq after the onslaught of the Islamic State group.

The chief executive officer of Nasdaq, one of several exchanges around the world vying for the international listing of Saudi oil giant Aramco, promoted the exchange to an audience in the Middle East, saying companies that want to be "part of the future" list with the New York-based exchange.

Iceland is expected to use more energy mining bitcoins and other virtual currencies this year than it uses to power its homes.

The average price of a gallon of regular-grade gasoline jumped 7 cents nationally over the past three weeks to $2.65.

Federal dam regulators say they are looking hard at how they missed the built-in weaknesses of the nation's tallest dam.

Turkey's foreign ministry has criticized Cyprus for a "unilateral" offshore hydrocarbons search after Turkish warships prevented a rig from reaching an area off Cyprus where it's to start exploratory drilling for gas.

Cyprus' foreign minister says a rig belonging to the Italian energy firm ENI has halted its journey in the Mediterranean Sea after encountering Turkish warships.

As Oklahoma sought to diversify its oil-and-gas powered economy in the early 2000s, policymakers rolled out the red carpet for the burgeoning wind industry, offering generous state tax incentives and access to windy, inexpensive tracts of land.

U.S. stocks moved sharply higher in early trading Friday, recouping some of the ground lost a day earlier when indexes plummeted, deepening a weeklong sell-off that knocked the market into a "correction" for the first time in two years.

___ US stocks swing back to gains, Dow up 330 on turbulent day NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street capped a day of wild swings with a late-afternoon rally that sent the Dow Jones industrial average 330 points higher.

Attorneys for a Florida-based environmental publication want a federal judge in North Dakota to sanction the Texas-based developer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in a dispute over whether the publication can be sued.

The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased by 29 this week to 975.

Hungary's prime minister says a forthcoming deal to import natural gas from neighboring Romania means that the "age of the Russian gas monopoly in Hungary is ending."

Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk says it made a fourth quarter profit of $386 million, up from a loss of $2.7 billion a year earlier, as revenue rose to $8.2 billion from $7 billion.

California commissions that oversee coastal lands and water pushed the Trump administration to leave the state out of plans to expand offshore drilling, warning the state would block pipelines to get oil back to land.

Sleepy Missouri senators worked through the night into a new day Thursday as a small group of lawmakers filibustered a bill that could reward utilities making improvements to their infrastructure with more consistent rate increases on their customers.

U.S. stocks are lower Thursday morning as losses from the previous day continue.

A federal judge is hearing testimony about the environmental impact of a crude oil pipeline that's getting built in a Louisiana swamp.

The Latest on offshore oil drilling proposal by the Trump administration (all times local): 10:20 a.m.

___ Dow industrials drop another 1,000 points as selling spreads NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks plunged again, sending the Dow industrials down 1,000 points, as investors continued to get out of the market.