Resources
Plain answers on oil & gas ownership and reporting.
Practical guides for owners and fund managers, written in the language of the documents, by people who have read a lot of them. No hype, no jargon left unexplained.
Guides
Read the documents the way we do.
For owners
How to read an oil & gas check stub
Gross, deductions, taxes, decimal interest, net. What each line on a revenue check stub means, and how to tell if you were paid correctly.
5 min read
For working-interest owners
What an AFE actually commits you to
An AFE is not just paperwork. For a working-interest owner it is a capital decision. What an authorization for expenditure is, and how to read one.
6 min read
For fund managers
Operator paperwork is not investor reporting
Operator statements tell you what happened to a well. LPs need to know what happened to their money, and why. The gap between the two is the work.
6 min read