The U.S. seizure of one oil tanker from Venezuela and the possibility of a third tanker being watched in the Caribbean Sea could send crude oil prices climbing higher than they did on Friday.
Brent crude rose back above the $60 mark on Friday, climbing 65 cents for a 1.1% gain for the day, settling at $60.47 a barrel.
West Texas Intermediate crude finished up 51 cents for a gain of 0.9% to close at $56.66 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
For the week, both benchmarks finished down 1%, far less than the 4% slide they took in the previous week.
Natural gas prices finished up on Friday, settling at $3.984 MMBtu after a gain of $0.076 or 1.94%.
Most Oklahoma energy stocks finished with losses on Friday, including Empire Petroleum Corp. with a more than 5% drop for the day. Mammoth Energy dropped 4%. Those firms with gains finished up about 1%.