They’ve been ponying up cash for years. Now they want dividends.

Shortages of labor and materials are making it hard to drill and maintain wells.

The move shows the president is trying to bring down prices, but he also appears to be going back on his word to curb oil and gas production.

The people and equipment they need are already hard at work.

Two reasons: reluctant investors and potential regulations.

After years of legal battles, a Miami-based company won the right to carry out exploratory oil drilling in the Florida Everglades.

Little about the 1998 blockbuster is true to life, but mining asteroids and comets is "humanity’s future, I’m pretty convinced of that," one expert says.

Last year, oil companies found the lowest new reserves in 70 years.