Other Assets

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Other Assets Noncurrent [Abstract]

Schedule Of Other Assets Noncurrent [Text Block]

Note 7 – Other Assets

Other long-term assets consisted of the following at December 31:

		2012		2011
Debt issuance costs	$	30,599	$	23,460
Deferred issuance costs related to reimbursement agreements		11,290		-
Deposits related to SM Energy litigation		6,000		6,000
Other		2,017		924
	$	49,906	$	30,384

Debt issuance costs and deferred issuance costs related to our reimbursement agreements are amortized over the life of the related obligation. During 2012, we incurred $32.2million in debt issuance costs related to the issuance of our 2018Notesand Revolving Credit Facility. See Note 9 for additional discussion.

As discussed in Note 20, we are in litigation concerning the terminated acquisition of properties from SM Energy. We paid $6.0 million in a deposit upon executing the acquisition agreement with SM Energy, and SM Energy has retained the deposit, which we believe we are entitled to recover.