Look at the drilling cost as an example. I believe the cost per well has more than tripled in 10 years.
Because the decade before that, y'all were selling oil at less than $30 a barrel and making a nice profit.
While less was invested, production declined until demand pushed it up. There is no question that we had access to cheaper, shallower, easier to produce fields back then. Horizontal drilling was uncommon, it didn't require more than a dozen stages of hydraulic fracturing to make an economical well.
So is it your claim the expenses in the 10-K and Annual reports are faked? Do you think their is a hidden pile of money growing under the mattresses?
Maybe they need to better breakout the salaries/bonuses/ROI of your presidents/vice-presidents/investors and other.
I know the workers haven't seen a tripling of their salaries in the last 10 years, knowing many personally. And as a land owner, on average, the leases haven't increased that much, and I did retire early! :)