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Asset Retirement Obligations
6 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
Asset Retirement Obligations  
Asset Retirement Obligations

Note 4Asset 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 are reconciliations of the beginning and ending asset retirement obligation balances:

 

 

 

December 31,
2013

 

June 30,
2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Asset retirement obligations — beginning of period

 

$

615,551

 

$

968,677

 

Liabilities sold

 

(48,273

)

(439,927

)

Liabilities incurred

 

 

60,143

 

Liabilities settled

 

(53,295

)

(51,086

)

Accretion of discount

 

25,346

 

72,312

 

Revision of previous estimates

 

48,988

 

5,432

 

Asset retirement obligations due within one year included in “Other current liabilities”

 

(431,561

)

 

Asset retirement obligations — end of period

 

$

156,756

 

$

615,551