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Asset Retirement Obligation (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2011
Changes to the Company's Asset Retirement Obligations | The following table describes the changes to the Company’s asset retirement obligations during the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010 (in thousands):
|  | Nine Months Ended September 30, |
|  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |
Balance at beginning of year |  | $ | 3,063 |  |  | $ | 2,955 |
Liabilities incurred |  |  | 223 |  |  |  | 279 |
Liabilities settled |  |  | (80 | ) |  |  | (331 | )
Accretion expense |  |  | 106 |  |  |  | 83 |
Revision in estimated costs of plugging oil and natural gas wells |  |  | (2 | ) |  |  | — |
Asset retirement obligation at end of period |  | $ | 3,310 |  |  | $ | 2,986 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of the changes in carrying amount of a liability for asset retirement obligations, for changes such as new obligations, changes in estimates of existing obligations, spending on existing obligations, property dispositions, and foreign currency translation. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Topic 410 -SubTopic 30 -Publisher FASB -Number -Article -Subparagraph -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Paragraph 5 -Section 50 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6393242&loc=d3e13201-110859 + Details
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