NOTE 10. SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION RELATING TO OIL AND GAS PRODUCING ACTIVITIES (UNAUDITED)
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Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Industries Disclosures [Text Block] |
NOTE
10. SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION RELATING TO OIL AND GAS
PRODUCING ACTIVITIES (UNAUDITED)
Costs
Incurred in Oil and Gas Property Acquisition, Exploration
and Development. Amounts reported as costs
incurred include both capitalized costs and costs charged
to expense during the year for oil and gas property
acquisition, exploration and development activities. Costs
incurred also include new asset retirement obligations
established in the current year, as well as increases or
decreases to the asset retirement obligations resulting
from changes to cost estimates during the year. Exploration
costs presented below include the costs of drilling and
equipping successful exploration wells, as well as dry hole
costs, leasehold impairments, geological and geophysical
expenses, and the costs of retaining undeveloped
leaseholds. Development costs include the costs of drilling
and equipping development wells, and construction of
related production facilities.
Capitalized
costs. Capitalized costs include the cost of
properties, equipment and facilities for oil and
natural-gas producing activities. Capitalized costs for
proved properties include costs for oil and natural-gas
leaseholds where proved reserves have been identified,
development wells, and related equipment and facilities,
including development wells in progress. Capitalized costs
for unproved properties include costs for acquiring oil and
gas leaseholds and geological and geophysical expenses
where no proved reserves have been identified.
Costs
Not Being Amortized. The
following table sets forth a summary of oil and gas property
costs not being amortized at December 31, 2012, by the period
in which such costs were incurred. There are no individually
significant properties or significant development projects
included in costs not being amortized. The majority of the
evaluation activities are expected to be completed within
five years.
Oil
and Gas Reserve
Information. Nova
Resources, Inc., an independent engineering firm,
prepared the estimates of the proved reserves, future
production, and income attributable to the leasehold
interests as of December 31, 2012. The estimated proved net
recoverable reserves presented below include only those
quantities that were expected to be commercially
recoverable at prices and costs in effect at the balance
sheet dates under the then existing regulatory practices
and with conventional equipment and operating methods.
Proved Developed Reserves represent only those reserves
estimated to be recovered through existing wells. Proved
Undeveloped Reserves include those reserves that may be
recovered from new wells on undrilled acreage or from
existing wells on which a relatively major expenditure for
recompletion or secondary recovery operations is required.
All of the Company's Proved Reserves are located onshore in
the continental United States of America.
Discounted
future cash flow estimates like those shown below are not
intended to represent estimates of the fair value of oil
and gas properties. Estimates of fair value should also
consider unproved reserves, anticipated future oil and gas
prices, interest rates, changes in development and
production costs and risks associated with future
production. Because of these and other considerations, any
estimate of fair value is subjective and imprecise.
The
following table sets forth estimates of the proved oil and
gas reserves (net of royalty interests) for the Company and
changes therein, for the periods indicated.
Standardized
Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash
Flows. The Standardized
Measure related to proved oil and gas reserves is
summarized below. Future cash inflows were computed by
applying a twelve month average of the first day of the
month prices to estimated future production, less estimated
future expenditures (based on year end costs) to be
incurred in developing and producing the proved reserves,
less estimated future income tax expense. Future income tax
expenses are calculated by applying appropriate year-end
tax rates to future pretax net cash flows, less the tax
basis of properties involved. Future net cash flows are
discounted at a rate of 10% annually to derive the
standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows.
This calculation procedure does not necessarily result in
an estimate of the fair market value or the present value
of the Company.
Standardized
Measure of Oil and Gas
The
following table sets forth the changes in standardized
measure of discounted future net cash flows relating to
proved oil and gas reserves for the periods
indicated.
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