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Investments, Loans and Long-Term Receivables
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
Investments, Loans and Long-Term Receivables [Abstract]  
Investments, Loans and Long-Term Receivables
Note 4—Investments,
 
Loans and Long-Term
 
Receivables
Components of investments, loans
 
and long-term receivables at December 31 were:
Millions of Dollars
2021
2020
Equity investments
$
6,701
7,596
Loans and advances—related parties
-
114
Long-term receivables
98
137
Long-term investments in debt
 
securities
248
217
Other investments
66
67
$
7,113
8,131
Equity Investments
Affiliated companies in which we had a significant
 
equity investment at December 31, 2021,
 
included:
APLNG—
37.5
 
percent owned joint venture
 
with Origin Energy (
37.5
 
percent) and Sinopec (
25
 
percent)—
to produce CBM from the Bowen and
 
Surat basins in Queensland, Australia,
 
as well as process and export
LNG.
Qatar Liquefied Gas Company Limited
 
(3) (QG3)—
30
 
percent owned joint venture
 
with affiliates of
QatarEnergy (
68.5
 
percent) and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (
1.5
 
percent)—produces and liquefies
 
natural gas from
Qatar’s North Field, as well as exports
 
LNG.
Summarized 100 percent earnings
 
information for equity method
 
investments in affiliated
 
companies,
 
combined, was as follows:
Millions of Dollars
2021
2020
2019
Revenues
$
11,824
7,931
11,310
Income before income taxes
3,946
1,843
3,726
Net income
2,557
1,426
3,085
Summarized 100 percent balance sheet information
 
for equity method investments
 
in affiliated companies,
 
combined, was as follows:
Millions of Dollars
2021
2020
Current assets
$
4,493
2,579
Noncurrent assets
36,602
35,257
Current liabilities
3,498
2,110
Noncurrent liabilities
17,465
18,099
Our share of income taxes incurred
 
directly by an equity method investee
 
is reported in equity in earnings of
affiliates, and as such is not included in income taxes
 
on our consolidated financial statements.
At December 31, 2021, retained earnings
 
included $
42
 
million related to the undistributed
 
earnings of affiliated
companies.
 
Dividends received from affiliates
 
were $
1,279
 
million, $
1,076
 
million and $
1,378
 
million in 2021, 2020
and 2019, respectively.
 
APLNG
 
APLNG is a joint venture focused on
 
producing CBM from the Bowen and Surat
 
basins in Queensland, Australia.
 
Natural gas is sold to domestic
 
customers and LNG is processed
 
and exported to Asia Pacific markets.
 
Our
investment in APLNG gives us access
 
to CBM resources in Australia
 
and enhances our LNG position.
 
The majority
of APLNG LNG is sold under two long-term sales and purchase
 
agreements, supplemented with sales
 
of additional
LNG spot cargoes targeting
 
the Asia Pacific markets.
 
Origin Energy,
 
an integrated Australian
 
energy company,
 
is
the operator of APLNG’s
 
production and pipeline system,
 
while we operate the LNG facility.
APLNG executed project financing
 
agreements for an $
8.5
 
billion project finance facility in 2012.
 
All amounts were
drawn from the facility.
 
APLNG achieved financial completion on its original
 
$
8.5
 
billion project finance facility
during the third quarter of 2017, resulting in the facility
 
being nonrecourse.
 
The project financing facility has been
refinanced over time and at December 31, 2021, this
 
facility was composed of a financing agreement
 
with the
Export-Import Bank of the United States,
 
a commercial bank facility and
two
 
United States Private
 
Placement note
facilities.
 
APLNG made its first principal and interest
 
repayment in March 2017 and is scheduled to
 
make
bi-annual
payments until September 2030.
 
At December 31, 2021, a balance of $
5.7
 
billion was outstanding on the facilities.
During the fourth quarter of 2021, Origin Energy Limited
 
agreed to the sale of
10
 
percent of their interest in
 
APLNG
for $
1.645
 
billion, before customary
 
adjustments.
 
ConocoPhillips announced in December 2021 that we were
exercising our preemption
 
right under the APLNG Shareholders Agreement
 
to purchase an additional
10
 
percent
shareholding interest in APLNG, subject
 
to government approvals.
 
The sales price associated with this preemption
right was determined to reflect
 
a relevant observable market
 
participant view of APLNG’s
 
fair value which was
below the carrying value of our existing
 
investment in APLNG.
 
Based on a review of the facts and circumstances
surrounding this decline in fair value,
 
we concluded in the fourth quarter of 2021 the impairment
 
was other than
temporary under the guidance of FASB
 
ASC Topic 323,
 
and the recognition of an impairment of our existing
investment was necessary.
 
Accordingly,
 
we recorded a noncash $
688
 
million, before-tax and
 
after-tax impairment
in the fourth quarter of 2021.
 
The impairment, which is included in the “Impairments” line on
 
our consolidated
income statement, had the
 
effect of reducing the carrying value
 
of our existing investment
 
to $
5,574
 
million as of
December 31, 2021.
 
This carrying value is included in the “Investments
 
and long-term receivables” line on our
consolidated balance sheet.
The historical cost basis of our
37.5
 
percent share of net assets on the books
 
of APLNG was $
5,523
 
million,
resulting in a basis difference of $
51
 
million on our books.
 
The basis difference, which is substantially
 
all
associated with PP&E and subject to amortization,
 
has been allocated on a relative
 
fair value basis to individual
production license areas owned by APLNG.
 
Any future additional payments
 
are expected to be allocated
 
in a
similar manner.
 
As the joint venture produces
 
natural gas from each license, we amortize
 
the basis difference
allocated to that license using the unit-of-production
 
method.
 
Included in net income (loss) attributable
 
to
ConocoPhillips for 2021, 2020 and 2019 was
 
after-tax expense
 
of $
39
 
million, $
41
 
million and $
36
 
million,
respectively,
 
representing the amortization
 
of this basis difference on currently
 
producing licenses.
QG3
QG3 is a joint venture that owns an
 
integrated large-scale
 
LNG project located in Qatar.
 
We provided project
financing, with a current outstanding balance of $
114
 
million as described below under “Loans.”
 
At December 31,
2021, the book value of our equity method investment
 
in QG3, excluding the project financing, was
 
$
736
 
million.
 
We have terminal and pipeline
 
use agreements with Golden Pass
 
LNG Terminal and affiliated
 
Golden Pass Pipeline
near Sabine Pass, Texas,
 
intended to provide us with terminal and
 
pipeline capacity for the receipt, storage
 
and
regasification of LNG purchased
 
from QG3.
 
We previously held a
12.4
 
percent interest in Golden
 
Pass LNG
Terminal and
 
Golden Pass Pipeline, but we sold those interests
 
in the second quarter of 2019 while retaining the
basic use agreements.
 
Currently,
 
the LNG from QG3 is being sold to markets
 
outside of the U.S.
Loans
As part of our normal ongoing business operations
 
and consistent with industry practice,
 
we enter into numerous
agreements with other parties to pursue
 
business opportunities.
 
Included in such activity are loans to certain
affiliated and non-affiliated
 
companies.
 
At December 31, 2021, significant loans
 
to affiliated companies include $
114
 
million in project financing to QG3
which is recorded within the “Accounts
 
and notes receivable—related
 
parties” line on our consolidated balance
sheet.
 
QG3 secured project financing of $
4.0
 
billion in December 2005, consisting of $
1.3
 
billion of loans from
export credit agencies (ECA), $
1.5
 
billion from commercial banks
 
and $
1.2
 
billion from ConocoPhillips.
 
The
ConocoPhillips loan facilities have
 
substantially the same terms as the ECA
 
and commercial bank facilities.
 
On
December 15, 2011, QG3 achieved financial completion
 
and all project loan facilities became nonrecourse
 
to the
project participants.
 
Semi-annual
 
repayments began in January 2011 and
 
will extend through July 2022.