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Asset Retirement Obligations

6 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Asset Retirement Obligations

Asset Retirement Obligations

Note 4 — 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 six months ended December 31, 2011:

Asset retirement obligations — beginning of period		$	859,586
Accretion expense		36,588
Payments on asset retirement obligations		(30,969		)
Acquisition of oil and gas properties		153,668
Revision of estimate		(106,468		)
Asset retirement obligations — end of period		$	912,405

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The entire disclosure for an asset retirement obligation and the associated long-lived asset. An asset retirement obligation is a legal obligation associated with the disposal or retirement from service of a tangible long-lived asset that results from the acquisition, construction or development, or the normal operations of a long-lived asset, except for certain obligations of lessees.

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-Name Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS)

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-LegacyDoc This reference is SUPERSEDED by the Accounting Standards Codification effective for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. This reference is included to help users transition from the previous accounting hierarchy and will be removed from future versions of this taxonomy.



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