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Property and Equipment
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2022
Property and Equipment  
Property and Equipment

4. Property and Equipment

The following table summarizes the Company’s property and equipment at December 31, 2022 and 2021:

    

December 31, 

    

December 31, 

2022

2021

Property and equipment:

Oil and gas properties, successful efforts method

Proved properties

$

148,326,265

$

138,032,413

Unproved properties

18,169,157

21,700,926

Accumulated depletion, depreciation, amortization and impairment

(107,729,293)

(102,480,972)

Total oil and gas properties, net

58,766,129

57,252,367

Gathering system

42,639,001

42,475,086

Accumulated depletion, depreciation, amortization and impairment

(34,500,740)

(33,443,949)

Total gathering system, net

8,138,261

9,031,137

Land

637,764

637,764

Buildings and other property and equipment, net

286,035

309,102

Total property and equipment, net

$

67,828,189

$

67,230,370

Property Sale

In April 2022, the Company completed a well bore only sale and conveyance and partial release of oil and gas leases in Oklahoma for $200,000.  In December 2021, the Company completed the sale of its shallow rights leases and wells in Oklahoma for $450,000.

Property Impairment

Epsilon performs a quantitative impairment test whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that an asset group's carrying amount may not be recoverable. When indicators of impairment are present, the Company first

compares expected future undiscounted cash flows by asset group to their respective carrying values. If the carrying amount exceeds the estimated undiscounted future cash flows, a reduction of the carrying amount to the estimated fair values is required. This is determined based on discounted cash flow techniques using significant assumptions including production volumes, future commodity prices, and a market-specific weighted average cost of capital which are affected by expectations about future market and economic conditions. Additionally, GAAP requires that if an exploratory well is determined not to have found proved reserves, the costs incurred, net of any salvage value, are charged to expense. For unproved properties, such as leasehold, expected current and future market prices for similar assets are considered relative to carrying values in evaluating impairment.

No impairment was recorded for the year ended December 31, 2022. For the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company recognized dry hole costs of $0.15 million.