Energy in America

___ After weeks of deals, stores aim to draw Black Friday crowds NEW YORK (AP) — Shoppers have been out since before dawn in the U.S. for fun and for deals, as retailers hope to bring customers to their stores and websites for one of the biggest shopping days of the year.

A federal appellate court has issued an order that temporarily prevents a company from building an 8-mile (12.87-kilometer) stretch of a high-pressure natural gas pipeline through a northeast Ohio city.

U.S. diplomats are demanding that Venezuela give them immediate access to jailed oil executives who hold American passports.

A court in western Germany says an ancient forest near the Belgian border can be chopped down to make way for a coal strip mine.

ENI's top executive says the Italian oil and gas company will drill two exploratory wells off Cyprus over the next two months and is expressed confidence that significant quantities of the mineral can be found.

Asian stock markets were mixed Friday with investors finding little guidance after Wall Street closed for the Thanksgiving holiday and Chinese markets in focus after a big sell-off the previous day.

Stocks in Shanghai fell sharply but in rest of Asia, markets were calm Thursday after the Fed minutes largely met investor expectations that it will soon raise interest rates for a third time next month.

The lack of action from OPEC at its June meeting Thursday shows more cracks are beginning to show in the cartel's oil-world dominance.

The fiery crash that killed U.S. oilman Aubrey McClendon in March after his car hit a wall was an accident, Oklahoma's medical examiner said on Wednesday, echoing a police inquiry's findings a day earlier that there was no evidence of suicide.

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British oil major BP reported a lower than expected profit for the second quarter due to weak refining margins and oil prices, prompting another cut to its 2016 investment budget to below $17 billion.

British oil major BP reported a lower than expected profit for the second quarter due to weak refining margins and oil prices, prompting another cut to its 2016 investment budget to below $17 billion.

Royal Dutch Shell reported a more than 70 percent fall in quarterly profit on Thursday, well below analyst estimates, blaming weak oil prices, poor refining profits and higher charges resulting from its $54 billion acquisition of BG Group.

Tesla Motors said it would buy solar panel installer SolarCity for $2.6 billion in shares to form a one-stop clean energy shop.

Tesla Motors said it would buy solar panel installer SolarCity for $2.6 billion in shares to form a one-stop clean energy shop.

Five months after protesters disrupted an oil and gas lease sale for tracts in the Gulf of Mexico, the government is livestreaming a sale while closing the site in New Orleans where bids are read.

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into possible antitrust violations by Chesapeake Energy Corp.

Iran is on the road to economic recovery as Western companies finally begin to reinvest in the region. These are the companies that could lose big if Trump changes course on U.S. relations with Tehran.

A major oil-by-rail terminal proposed on the Columbia River in Washington state poses a potential risk of oil spills, train accidents and longer emergency response times due to road traffic, an environmental study has found.

With the Thanksgiving holiday approaching, U.S. stocks are little changed Wednesday morning after they finished at all-time highs the day before.