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Asset Retirement Obligations
3 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2025
Asset Retirement Obligations  
Asset Retirement Obligations

Note 9. Asset Retirement Obligations

The Company’s ARO represents the estimated present value of the amount expected to be incurred to plug, abandon, and remediate its oil and natural gas properties at the end of their productive lives in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. The Company records the ARO liability on the unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets and

capitalizes the cost in “Oil and natural gas properties, subject to amortization, net” during the period in which the obligation is incurred. The Company records the accretion of its ARO liabilities in “Depletion, depreciation and accretion” expense in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations.

The following is a reconciliation of the activity related to the Company’s ARO liability (inclusive of the current portion) for the period ended September 30, 2025 (in thousands):

 

    

September 30, 2025

Asset retirement obligations — beginning of period

$

21,830

Liabilities settled and divested

(41)

Accretion of discount

401

Asset retirement obligations — end of period

22,190

Less: current asset retirement obligations

(262)

Long-term portion of asset retirement obligations

$

21,928