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SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2019

NOTE 2—SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Significant accounting policies: The Company’s significant accounting policies are disclosed in Note 2 of the consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2018, included in the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K. With the exception of the adoption of the new lease standard discussed in Note 5, there have been no significant changes in such policies or the application of such policies during the Current Quarter.

Use of estimates: The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

On an ongoing basis, the Company evaluates its estimates, including those related to the recoverability of long-lived assets and intangibles, useful lives used in depreciation and amortization, uncollectible accounts receivable, inventory, income taxes, self-insurance liabilities, share-based compensation, contingent liabilities and the incremental borrowing rate for leases. The Company bases its estimates on historical and other pertinent information that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. The accounting estimates used in the preparation of the consolidated financial statements may change as new events occur, as more experience is acquired, as additional information is obtained and as the Company’s operating environment changes.

Asset retirement obligations: The Company’s asset retirement obligations (“ARO”) relate to 16 disposal facilities with obligations for plugging wells, removing surface equipment, and returning land to its pre-drilling condition. The following table describes the changes to the Company’s ARO liability for the Current Period:


	Six months ended June 30, 2019
	(in thousands)
Balance at beginning of Current Period	$	1,898
Accretion expense, included in depreciation and amortization expense		57
Change in estimate		—
Divestitures		(61)
Balance at end of Current Period	$	1,894

We review the adequacy of our ARO liabilities whenever indicators suggest that the estimated cash flows underlying the liabilities have changed. The Company’s ARO liabilities are included in accrued expenses and other current liabilities and other long-term liabilities in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.

Recent accounting pronouncements: In February 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2016-02, Leases, which modifies the lease recognition requirements and requires entities to recognize the assets and liabilities arising from leases on the balance sheet and to disclose key qualitative and quantitative information about the entity’s leasing arrangements. Based on the original guidance in ASU 2016-02, lessees and lessors would have been required to recognize and measure leases at the beginning of the earliest period presented using a modified retrospective approach, including a number of optional practical expedients. In July 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-11, Leases (ASC 842): Targeted Improvements, which provides entities with an option to apply the guidance prospectively, instead of retrospectively, and allows for other classification provisions. ASU 2016-02 is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years, with early adoption permitted. The Company adopted ASU 2016-02 in the first quarter of 2019. The Company elected to recognize its lease assets and liabilities on a prospective basis, beginning on January 1, 2019, using the modified retrospective transition method. Additionally, the Company elected practical expedients to (i) exclude right-of-use assets and lease liabilities for short-term leases, (ii) elected to treat lease and non-lease components as a single lease component, (iii) grandfathered its current accounting for land easements that commenced before January 1, 2019, and (iv) used the package of practical expedients to retain prior lease classification, prior treatment of initial direct costs and prior determination of whether a contract constituted a lease. See Note 5—Leases for additional information.

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments, which amends U.S. GAAP by introducing a new impairment model for financial instruments that is based on expected credit losses rather than incurred credit losses. The new impairment model applies to most financial assets, including trade accounts receivable. The amendments are effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2019, although it may be adopted one year earlier, and requires a modified retrospective transition approach. This will mainly impact the Company’s trade receivables allowance calculation. The Company is assessing the best approach to estimate allowances and is evaluating the impact this standard will have on its consolidated financial statements.