Evidence before inference.

Figures and recorded events should retain a source, year, and applicable observation period. Commodity references carry their publisher, location, and explicit units. Public research points readers toward original publishers where a verified source URL is available.

A missing production record is not zero production. An absent enforcement record is not enforcement clearance. An unavailable source remains unavailable; it is not silently replaced with a guessed value.

A filed permit, an approved permit, a documented spud, a filed completion, an approved completion, and documented first sales are separate events. One date is not used to infer another.

Published geographic aggregates require approved methodology, a stated sample unit and count, source, year, period, and minimum sample thresholds. Small cells and complementary values that could reveal them are suppressed together. No SEC-derived baselines are published here.

Members submit a claim and proposed correction for owner review, with optional official evidence. A request does not rewrite the source fact or guarantee acceptance. A correction record is the review history, not a replacement source.