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Note 5 - Asset Retirement Obligations
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2021
Notes to Financial Statements  
Asset Retirement Obligation Disclosure [Text Block]

5.

Asset Retirement Obligations 

 

Our ARO represent the estimated present value of the amount incurred to plug, abandon and remediate our properties at the end of their productive lives.

 

A summary of the changes to our ARO is as follows (in thousands):

 

Balances, December 31, 2020

 $392,704 

Liabilities settled

  (962)

Accretion of discount

  5,868 

Revisions of estimated liabilities

  1,287 

Balances, March 31, 2021

  398,897 

Less current portion

  26,402 

Long-term

 $372,495