Derivatives

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2019

Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosure [Abstract]

Commodity Derivatives

The Company is exposed to commodity price risk, which impacts the predictability of its cash flows from the sale of oil and natural gas. The Company, on occasion, has sought to manage this risk through the use of commodity derivative contracts, which allow the Company to limit its exposure to commodity price volatility on a portion of its forecasted oil and natural gas sales. The Company has not designated any of its derivative contracts as hedges for accounting purposes and records all derivative contracts at fair value with changes in derivative contract fair values recognized as gain or loss on derivative contracts in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations. At March 31, 2019, the Company had no commodity derivative contracts in place. Historically, none of the Company’s commodity derivative contracts could be terminated prior to contractual maturity solely as a result of a downgrade in the credit rating of a party to the contract. Commodity derivative contracts are settled on a monthly basis, and the commodity derivative contract valuations are adjusted to the mark-to-market valuation on a quarterly basis. The Board and management of the Company are continuing to evaluate the futures market for oil and natural gas to mitigate exposure to adverse oil and natural gas price changes.

The following table summarizes derivative activity for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2019, and 2018 (in thousands):


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2019		2018
Loss on commodity derivative contracts	$	209	$	18,330
Cash (received) paid on settlements	$	(5,078)	$	6,119

Master Netting Agreements and the Right of Offset. Historically, the Company has had master netting agreements with all of its commodity derivative counterparties and has presented its derivative assets and liabilities with the same counterparty on a net basis in the unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets. As a result of the netting provisions, the Company's maximum amount of loss under commodity derivative transactions due to credit risk was limited to the net amounts due from its counterparties. The Company is not required to post additional collateral under its commodity derivative contracts as all of the counterparties to the Company’s commodity derivative contracts shared in the collateral supporting the Company’s credit facility.

The following table summarizes (i) the Company's commodity derivative contracts on a gross basis, (ii) the effects of netting assets and liabilities for which the right of offset exists based on master netting arrangements and (iii) for the Company’s net derivative liability positions, the applicable portion of shared collateral under the credit facility as of December 31, 2018 (in thousands):

December 31, 2018


	Gross Amounts		Gross Amounts Offset		Amounts Net of Offset		Financial Collateral		Net Amount
Assets
Derivative contracts - current	$	5,286	$	—	$	5,286	$	—	$	5,286

Total	$	5,286	$	—	$	5,286	$	—	$	5,286

Fair Value of Derivatives

The following table presents the fair value of the Company’s derivative contracts as of December 31, 2018, on a gross basis without regard to same-counterparty netting (in thousands):

Type of Contract

Balance Sheet Classification

December 31, 2018

Derivative assets

Natural gas price swaps

Derivative contracts-current

5,286

Total net derivative contracts

5,286

See Note 4 for additional discussion of the fair value measurement of the Company’s derivative contracts.