Tutorials for Oil & Gas Analysis, Valuation, and R Coding geared towards industry professionals

Learn how to value shale assets, forecast production, clean messy SEC/XBRL filings, and work with upstream data in R — from someone who's done it at the institutional level.

🔹 Who It’s For

  • Finance professionals trying to understand E&P models

  • Engineers and analysts looking to automate workflows

  • Substack readers curious about how AFE Leaks builds tools

  • Self-taught coders seeking real-world energy datasets


🔹 What You'll Learn

Examples of upcoming tutorials:

  • 💰 How to build a DCF valuation model for shale assets

  • 📦 Cleaning and joining SEC/XBRL financial data in R

  • 🌎 Mapping operator acreage using shapefiles + Leaflet

  • 🛢️ Analyzing cost-per-foot trends using highcharter

  • 🔁 How to build a production forecast model from public data


🔹 Format

  • 5–15 minute video walkthroughs

  • Step-by-step code examples (mostly R)

  • Real data from AFE Leaks database


🔹 How to Access

  • Available at Basic Insights Subscribers and above


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    Tutorial - Looking at Permian Resources Cost Data via our API Service

    Occasionally, we will include tutorials to help people either learn some basics of coding, or to highlight how to do something with our datasets. Why? Learning to code is a force multiplier to your workflows. For example, I’m currently scraping and processing AFE data at my house via a script while sitting at my local brewery enjoying a cold one and …