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Asset Retirement Obligations

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Asset Retirement Obligation Disclosure [Abstract]

Asset Retirement Obligations

11. ASSET RETIREMENT OBLIGATIONS

The Company has asset retirement obligations (“ARO”) associated with the future plugging and abandonment of proved properties. Initially, the fair value of a liability for an ARO is recorded in the period in which the ARO is incurred with a corresponding increase in the carrying amount of the related asset. The liability is accreted to its present value each period and the capitalized cost is depleted over the life of the related asset. If the liability is settled for an amount other than the recorded amount, an adjustment to the full-cost pool is recognized. The Company had no assets that are restricted for the purpose of settling AROs.

In the fair value calculation for the ARO there are numerous assumptions and judgments including the ultimate retirement cost, inflation factors, credit-adjusted risk-free discount rates, timing of retirement and changes in legal, regulatory, environmental and political environments. To the extent future revisions to assumptions and judgments impact the present value of the existing ARO, a corresponding adjustment is made to the oil and natural gas property balance. During the nine months ended September 30, 2019, there was an adjustment to the credit adjusted risk free rate used to discount the ARO for a well completed in December 2018. The adjustment decreased the ARO liability and the amount capitalized by $14 thousand.

The following is a reconciliation of the changes in the Company’s liabilities for asset retirement obligations during the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and the year ended December 31, 2018:

		Nine Months Ended September 30, 2019				Year Ended December 31, 2018
		(in thousands)
Balance, beginning of year		$	939			$	913
Accretion			17				25
Sold/Plugged							(18	)
New drilled wells			2				19
Change in discount rate			(14	)			-
Liabilities incurred							-
Balance, end of period		$	944			$	939

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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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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 410
-SubTopic 20
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/subtopic&trid=2175671

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