Asset Retirement Obligations (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Asset Retirement Obligations

Schedule of reconciliation of asset retirement obligations

The following is a reconciliation of the Company’s asset retirement obligations for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 (in thousands):

Asset retirement obligations—December 31, 2018	$	58,979
Obligations settled		(153)
Obligations incurred		1,361
Revisions to prior estimates		—
Accretion expense		2,821
Effect of deconsolidation of Antero Midstream Partners LP (1)		(7,518)
Asset retirement obligations—September 30, 2019	$	55,490

(1)Effective March 13, 2019, Antero Midstream Partners is no longer consolidated in Antero’s results.