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DERIVATIVES
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2022
Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosure [Abstract]  
DERIVATIVES DERIVATIVES
The Company periodically enters into commodity derivative contracts to mitigate a portion of its exposure to potentially adverse market changes in commodity prices for its expected future oil and natural gas production and the associated impact on cash flows. The Company’s commodity derivative contracts consist of swaps, collars, and basis protection swap arrangements. As of December 31, 2022, all derivative counterparties were members of the Credit Facility lender group and all commodity derivative contracts are entered into for other-than-trading purposes. The Company does not designate its commodity derivative contracts as hedging instruments.
A typical swap arrangement guarantees a fixed price on contracted volumes. If the agreed upon published third-party index price (“index price”) is lower than the fixed contract price at the time of settlement, the Company receives the difference between the index price and the fixed contract price. If the index price is higher than the fixed contact price at the time of settlement, the Company pays the difference between the index price and the fixed contract price.
A typical collar arrangement establishes a floor and ceiling price on contracted volumes through the use of a short call and a long put (“two-way collar”). When the index price is above the ceiling price at the time of settlement, the Company pays the difference between the index price and the ceiling price. When the index price is below the floor price at the time of settlement, the Company receives the difference between the index price and floor price. When the index price is between the floor price and ceiling price, no payment or receipt occurs. A minority of our collar arrangements combine a two-way collar with a short put that holds an exercise price below the floor price (“three-way collar”). In these arrangements, when the index price is below the floor price at the time of settlement, the Company receives the difference between the index price and the floor price, capped at the difference between the floor price and the exercise price of the short put.
Basis protection swaps are arrangements that guarantee a price differential for natural gas from a specified delivery point. For basis protection swaps, the Company receives a payment from the counterparty if the price differential is greater than the stated terms of the contract and pays the counterparty if the price differential is less than the stated terms of the contract.
As of December 31, 2022, the Company had entered into the following commodity price derivative contracts:
Contract Period
Q1 2023Q2 2023Q3 2023Q4 20232024
Oil Derivatives (volumes in Bbl/day and prices in $/Bbls)
Swaps
NYMEX WTI Volumes1,3201,2051,0539841,019
Weighted-Average Contract Price$74.29 $73.49 $70.92 $70.61 $66.78 
Two-Way Collars
NYMEX WTI Volumes1,054————
Weighted-Average Ceiling Price$72.70 $— $— $— $— 
Weighted-Average Floor Price$40.00 $— $— $— $— 
Three-Way Collars
NYMEX WTI Volumes1,7211,4361,3021,172143
Weighted-Average Ceiling Price$58.75 $57.69 $57.48 $56.49 $56.25 
Weighted-Average Floor Price$49.31 $48.10 $47.91 $49.04 $45.00 
Weighted-Average Sold Put Price$39.25 $37.70 $37.41 $39.04 $35.00 
Natural Gas Derivatives (volumes in MMBtu/day and prices in $/MMBtu)
Swaps
NYMEX HH Volumes47,36846,37446,12045,94724,148
Weighted-Average Contract Price$2.65 $2.64 $2.61 $2.60 $2.70 
Two-Way Collars
NYMEX HH Volumes9,5581,5631,8871,7561,033
Weighted-Average Ceiling Price$3.23 $2.78 $2.96 $2.96 $3.05 
Weighted-Average Floor Price$2.03 $2.21 $2.34 $2.38 $2.38 
Three-Way Collars
NYMEX HH Volumes899505——303
Weighted-Average Ceiling Price$3.19 $3.33 $— $— $3.49 
Weighted-Average Floor Price$2.50 $2.50 $— $— $2.50 
Weighted-Average Sold Put Price$2.00 $2.00 $— $— $2.00 
Subsequent to December 31, 2022, the Company entered into a series of fixed price, natural gas basis protection swaps on all of its outstanding NYMEX HH positions through the third quarter of 2024 to mitigate exposure to adverse pricing differentials between NYMEX HH and CIG. The weighted-average contract price entered of $(0.13) per MMBtu represents the amount of reduction to the NYMEX HH natural gas price for the contracted volumes covered by the basis protection swaps.
Derivative Assets and Liabilities Fair Value 
The Company’s commodity price derivatives are measured at fair value and are included in the accompanying balance sheets as derivative assets and liabilities. The following table contains a summary of all the Company’s derivative positions reported on the accompanying balance sheets as well as a reconciliation between the gross assets and liabilities and the potential effects of master netting arrangements on the fair value of the Company’s commodity derivative contracts as of December 31, 2022 and 2021 (in thousands):
As of December 31,
20222021
Derivative Assets: 
Commodity contracts - current$2,490 $3,393 
Commodity contracts - noncurrent794 — 
Total derivative assets3,284 3,393 
Amounts not offset in the accompanying balance sheets— (3,393)
Total derivative assets, net$3,284 $— 
Derivative Liabilities:  
Commodity contracts - current$(46,334)$(219,804)
Commodity contracts - long-term(17,199)(19,959)
Total derivative liabilities(63,533)(239,763)
Amounts not offset in the accompanying balance sheets— 3,393 
Total derivative liabilities, net$(63,533)$(236,370)
The following table summarizes the components of the derivative gain (loss) presented on the accompanying statements of operations for the periods below (in thousands):
 Year Ended December 31,
 202220212020
Derivative cash settlement gain (loss): 
Oil contracts$(346,419)$(215,057)$50,133 
Gas contracts(189,410)(51,806)(727)
NGL contracts(40,973)(9,051)— 
Total derivative cash settlement gain (loss)(576,802)(275,914)49,406 
Change in fair value gain241,642 215,404 4,056 
Total derivative gain (loss)$(335,160)$(60,510)$53,462