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Asset Retirement Obligations
12 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2012
Asset Retirement Obligations  
Asset Retirement Obligations

 

Note 6 Asset Retirement Obligations

 

Our asset retirement obligations represent the estimated present value of the amount we will incur to plug, abandon and remediate our producing properties at the end of their productive lives in accordance with applicable laws. The following is a reconciliation of the beginning and ending asset retirement obligation for the years ended June 30, 2012 and 2011:

 

 

 

Year Ended

 

 

 

2012

 

2011

 

Asset retirement obligations — beginning of period

 

$

859,586

 

$

811,635

 

Liabilities incurred

 

175,943

 

15,000

 

Liabilities settled

 

(61,936

)

(1,847

)

Accretion

 

77,505

 

59,913

 

Revisions to previous estimates

 

(82,421

)

(25,115

)

Asset retirement obligations — end of period

 

$

968,677

 

$

859,586