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Other Liabilities (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2016
Other Liabilities Disclosure [Abstract] |
Other Current Liabilities | Other current liabilities as of March 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015 are detailed below.
|  | March 31, 2016 |  | December 31, 2015
|  | ($ in millions)
Revenues and royalties due others |  | $ | 378 |  |  | $ | 500 |
Accrued drilling and production costs |  | 216 |  |  | 212 |
Joint interest prepayments received |  | 103 |  |  | 169 |
Accrued compensation and benefits |  | 151 |  |  | 264 |
Other accrued taxes |  | 57 |  |  | 37 |
Bank of New York Mellon legal accrual |  | 439 |  |  | 439 |
Minimum gathering volume commitment |  | 4 |  |  | 201 |
Other |  | 196 |  |  | 397 |
Total other current liabilities |  | $ | 1,544 |  |  | $ | 2,219 |
Other Long-Term Liabilities | Other long-term liabilities as of March 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015 are detailed below.
|  | March 31, 2016 |  | December 31, 2015
|  | ($ in millions)
CHK Utica ORRI conveyance obligation(a) |  | $ | 183 |  |  | $ | 190 |
Financing obligations |  | 29 |  |  | 29 |
Unrecognized tax benefits |  | 68 |  |  | 64 |
Other |  | 146 |  |  | 126 |
Total other long-term liabilities |  | $ | 426 |  |  | $ | 409 |
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(a) | The CHK Utica, L.L.C. investors’ right to receive, proportionately, a 3% overriding royalty interest (ORRI) in the first 1,500 net wells drilled on our Utica Shale leasehold is subject to an increase to 4% on net wells earned in any year following a year in which we do not meet our net well commitment under the ORRI obligation, which runs through 2023. The liability represents the obligation to deliver future ORRIs. Approximately $25 million and $21 million of the total $208 million and $211 million obligations are recorded in other current liabilities as of March 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, respectively.

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