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SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
6 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
NOTE 18 SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

Subsequent to March 31, 2020, we decommissioned two rigs and 35 rigs from our legacy Domestic Conventional asset group and FlexRig3 asset group, respectively. The decommissioned rigs were impaired as of March 31, 2020 (Refer to Note 5—Property, Plant and Equipment).
While the crude oil market imbalance is a global phenomenon, it has more acutely impacted the U.S. market as a result of storage limitations subsequent to March 31, 2020. The abruptness of and the overall size of the decrease in demand for refined products, such as gasoline and diesel, has created an abundance of supply for such products causing the inventory levels of crude oil and its related refined products to become greatly elevated reaching the high end of storage capabilities. This has greatly reduced the need, or in some cases, entirely eliminated the ability of refineries to use crude oil as a feedstock. As such, E&P companies, our customers, may have limited opportunities to offload their production and even then, the selling price could be at very low, uneconomical prices. Consequently, some E&P companies have chosen to shut-in and stop production, not complete additional wells drilled and/or even drill any more wells until the market imbalance corrects and it is economical to once again resume production and drilling wells.
Subsequent to March 31, 2020, we have received additional rig release notifications, which will result in additional early termination and notification fee revenue. The total impact of the early termination revenue and notification fee revenue related to these rig release notifications received subsequent to March 31, 2020 on future periods is approximately $27.0 million.