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Assets Held For Sale | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2020
Assets Held For Sale [Abstract] |
Assets Held For Sale | Assets Held For Sale At March 31, 2020, the company classified $2.99 billion of net properties, plant and equipment as “Assets held for sale” on the Consolidated Balance Sheet. These assets are associated with upstream operations that are anticipated to be sold in the next 12 months. The revenues and earnings contributions of these assets in 2019 and the first three months of 2020 were not material. In April 2020, the company completed the sale of its interest in the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli fields and Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline in Azerbaijan, representing approximately half the value of the net properties, plant and equipment held for sale at March 31, 2020.

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