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Related Party Transactions
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions Related Party Transactions
The Company operates oil and natural gas properties held by a partnership owned by its majority stockholder. Comstock also drills and operates certain other properties for the partnership that the Company does not own working interest in. Comstock charges the partnership for the costs incurred to drill, complete and produce the wells, as well as drilling and operating overhead fees that are charged other interest owners. Comstock also provides natural gas marketing services to the partnership, including evaluating potential markets and providing hedging services, in return for a fee equal to $0.02 per Mcf for natural gas marketed. The Company received $1.4 million, $718 thousand and $134 thousand in 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively, for operating and marketing services provided to the partnership.
Comstock had a $20.8 million and $6.2 million receivable from the partnership at December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. In addition, derivative financial instruments at December 31, 2021 and 2020 included a $2.3 million receivable and $2.0 million payable, respectively, for oil and natural gas price hedging contracts that the Company has entered into with the partnership.
In 2021, the Company acquired from unaffiliated third parties a 50% interest in approximately 35,000 net acres of predominantly undeveloped Haynesville shale acreage in East Texas, which also included interests in 37 producing wells. An affiliate of the Company's majority stockholder acquired the remaining 50% of the acreage and wells alongside Comstock. Comstock will be the operator of the future drilling program on the jointly acquired acreage.
In February 2019, Comstock sold certain leases covering 1,464 undeveloped net acres in Caddo Parish, Louisiana for $5.9 million to a partnership owned by the Company's majority stockholder. The proceeds from the sale were used to fund the purchase of a like number of net acres from a third party for $5.9 million. The acreage acquired was in part the acreage sold to the partnership or acreage in the same area. The purchase price paid per net acre was determined by the price paid by the Company to the third party.