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Sale and Exchange of Properties | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2015
Discontinued Operations and Disposal Groups [Abstract] |
Sale and Exchange of Properties | Sale and Exchange of Properties In June 2014, the Company exchanged assets with Range Resources Corporation (Range). The Company received approximately 73,000 net acres and approximately 900 producing wells, most of which are vertical wells, in the Permian Basin of Texas. In exchange, Range received approximately 138,000 net acres in the Company’s Nora field of Virginia (Nora), the Company’s working interest in approximately 2,000 producing vertical wells in Nora, the Company’s 50% ownership interest in Nora Gathering, LLC (Nora LLC), which owns the supporting gathering system in Nora, and $167.3 million in cash. The Company previously recorded its 50% ownership interest in Nora LLC as a nonconsolidated investment in its consolidated financial statements. The fair value of the assets exchanged by the Company was approximately $516.5 million. Fair value of $318.3 million was allocated to the acquired acreage and $198.2 million was allocated to the acquired wells. The Company recorded a pre-tax gain of $34.1 million, which is included in gain on sale / exchange of assets in the Statements of Consolidated Income. The gain on sale / exchange of assets includes a $28.0 million pre-tax gain related to the de-designation of certain derivative instruments that were previously designated as cash flow hedges because it was probable that the forecasted transactions would not occur. As the asset exchange qualified as a business combination under United States GAAP, the fair value of the acquired assets was determined using a discounted cash flow model under the market approach. Significant unobservable inputs used in the analysis included the determination of estimated developed reserves, NYMEX forward pricing and comparable sales transactions, which classify the acquired assets as a Level 3 measurement.

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