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Asset Retirement Obligation (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2012

Changes to 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, 2012 and 2011 (in thousands):

		Nine Months Ended September 30,
		2012				2011
Balance at beginning of year		$	3,455			$	3,063
Liabilities incurred			288				223
Liabilities settled			(106	)			(80	)
Accretion expense			121				106
Revision in estimated costs of plugging oil and natural gas wells			536				(2	)
Asset retirement obligation at end of period		$	4,294			$	3,310

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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

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 410

-SubTopic 30

-Section 50

-Paragraph 5

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6393242&loc=d3e13201-110859

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