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A primary source is the party that made the news: a company release, a government notice, a regulatory filing, or an official data series. Before a news story publishes, we root it to one. If we cannot, the story does not run.

When several outlets cover the same company release, we cite the release itself, not the outlets repeating it. Headlines from other publishers can tell us a story matters, but a headline is a signal, not a source. No stated fact rests on one.

Analysis and opinion carry our own byline and are labeled as such. Their facts still trace to sources.

We never cite content-scraping aggregators, mirror sites, or stock-promotion feeds. They repackage other people's reporting, and citing them would launder a claim away from whoever actually made it.

We also respect publisher terms. When an outlet's terms bar automated access, we do not fetch its pages. We may still attribute a fact to that outlet by name and link to it, which their terms allow.

Each article ends with a Sources block listing the primary and data sources it draws on, each with its role: the primary source the story rests on, and any data series behind the numbers. The links go to the sources themselves, so you can check our work.

Prices, forecasts, and basin production come from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), a U.S. government source in the public domain. Rig counts come from Baker Hughes. Full data credits are on the legal page.

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