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Extractive Industries
3 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2012
Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Industries Disclosures [Abstract]  
Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Industries Disclosures [Text Block]

NOTE 4 - UNPROVED PROPERTIES AND IMPAIRMENT 

The total of the Company's investment in unproved properties at June 30, 2012 and September 30, 2011 consists of the following capitalized costs, respectively:

 

 

 

June 30, 2012

 

September 30, 2011

 

Name

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unproved and developed properties

 

 

 

 

 

Kansas Girard Project

 

 

 

 

 

 

Field equipment

$

615,953

$

615,953

 

 

Capitalized drilling costs

 

662,899

 

662,899

 

 

 

Subtotal

 

1,278,852

 

1,278,852

 

 

Less Accumulated DD&A

 

(490,289)

 

(458,765)

 

Net capitalized costs in Girard Project

 

788,563

 

820,087

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jayhawk Gas Transport Company

 

 

 

 

 

 

Field Equipment

 

2,605,871

 

2,605,871

 

 

Less Accumulated DD&A

 

(491,950)

 

(404,865)

 

Net capitalized costs

 

2,113,921

 

2,201,006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unproved and undeveloped properties

 

 

 

 

 

Kansas Girard Project

 

1,404,604

 

1,403,444

 

 

Less: accumulated amortization

 

(652,999)

 

(579,999)

 

Net investment in Girard Project

 

751,605

 

823,445

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

North Dakota Project

 

78,135

 

78,135

 

Net investment in North Dakota Project

 

78,135

 

78,135

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Unproved Oil and Gas Properties

$

3,732,224

$

3,922,673

The Kansas properties identified above as the Girard Project have not been evaluated and an independent estimates of proved reserves have yet been made. 

Abandonment of Uniontown:  In 2008, management made a review of the portfolio of leases acquired in the Uniontown transaction of July 2007 and decided, based on geology and proximity to the Company's pipeline, to permit only approximately one-third of the original leases acquired and allow the remainder to expire without renewal. Given the Company's inability at that time to fund development of any acreage, justification existed at the time to abandon those properties.  The abandonment was estimated at two-thirds, 67 percent, of the original investment.  Further evaluation by management during the year ended September 30, 2011 indicated the capital required to develop the Uniontown Project exceeded the Company's ability to fund the project and any capital raised would be better served being deployed on other opportunities. Thus, the remainder of the leases expired without renewal and the Company recognized an additional abandonment loss of $1,020,479 on the Uniontown project for the year ended September 30, 2011.

NOTE 5 - PROVED PROPERTIES AND IMPAIRMENT 

Net capitalized costs are comprised of the following; detailed by property:

 

Name

 

June 30, 2012

 

September 30, 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crosby, North Dakota Properties

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proved Reserves

$

2,357,753

$

2,357,753

 

 

Field Equipment

 

1,200,245

 

1,200,245

 

 

Capitalized Drilling Costs

 

416,429

 

416,429

 

 

  Subtotal

 

3,974,427

 

3,974,427

 

 

Less: Impairments

 

(2,267,426)

 

(2,267,426)

 

 

Less: Accumulated DD&A

 

(995,025)

 

(748,836)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Proved Oil Properties

$

711,976

$

958,165

During the year ended September 30, 2011, the Company impaired certain previously capitalized non-saleable assets of $1,301,422 at the Crosby, North Dakota property.

For the year ended September 30, 2011, the Company performed an analysis to determine whether the carrying amounts in its financial statements exceeded the net present value of the reserve estimates for the Crosby, North Dakota property.  Management determined that the net values reflected in the financial statements did not exceed the net discounted present value of the reserves estimated by the independent reserve engineer. Management determined that an impairment exists on other Crosby property. The impairment write-down was recognized at $280,963 for the year ended September 30, 2011.