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Property, Plant and Equipment | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2012
Property, Plant and Equipment | 4. Property, Plant and Equipment The following table sets forth the Company’s property, plant and equipment:
|  | September 30, 2012 |  |  | December 31, 2011 |
|  | (In thousands) |
Proved oil and gas properties (1) |  | $ | 2,004,433 |  |  | $ | 1,152,532 |
Less: Accumulated depreciation, depletion, amortization and impairment |  |  | (314,787 | ) |  |  | (174,948 | )
Proved oil and gas properties, net |  |  | 1,689,646 |  |  |  | 977,584 |
Unproved oil and gas properties |  |  | 74,583 |  |  |  | 82,825 |
Oil and gas properties, net |  |  | 1,764,229 |  |  |  | 1,060,409 |
Other property and equipment |  |  | 45,261 |  |  |  | 20,859 |
Less: Accumulated depreciation |  |  | (5,691 | ) |  |  | (1,313 | )
Other property and equipment, net |  |  | 39,570 |  |  |  | 19,546 |
Total property, plant and equipment, net |  | $ | 1,803,799 |  |  | $ | 1,079,955 |
(1) | Included in the Company’s proved oil and gas properties are estimates of future asset retirement costs of $18.5 million and $11.4 million at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively. In addition, the Company’s proved oil and gas properties include cumulative capitalized interest of $5.6 million and $3.1 million at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively.
As a result of expiring leases and periodic assessments of unproved properties, the Company recorded non-cash impairment charges on its unproved oil and gas properties of $36,000 and $2.6 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012, respectively, and $0.4 million and $3.3 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011, respectively. No impairment charges on proved oil and natural gas properties were recorded for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 or 2011.

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