Organization and Basis of Presentation

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2014

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Organization and Basis of Presentation

ORGANIZATION AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION

Energen Corporation (Energen or the Company) is an oil and natural gas exploration and production company primarily engaged in the exploration, development and production of oil and gas properties in the Permian Basin in west Texas and in the San Juan Basin in New Mexico and Colorado in the continental United States. Our operations are conducted substantially through our subsidiary Energen Resources Corporation (Energen Resources). The unaudited consolidated financial statements and notes should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and notes thereto for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, included in the 2013 Annual Report of Energen and Alabama Gas Corporation (Alagasco) on Form 10-K.

Prior to September 2, 2014, Energen owned Alagasco, which was engaged in the purchase, distribution and sale of natural gas principally in central and north Alabama. On September 2, 2014, Energen completed the transaction to sell Alagasco to The Laclede Group, Inc. (Laclede) for $1.6 billion, less the assumption of $267 million in debt. The net pre-tax proceeds to Energen totaled approximately $1.32 billion, subject to closing adjustments. This sale had an effective date of August 31, 2014. Energen used cash proceeds from the sale to reduce long-term and short-term indebtedness. During the second quarter of 2014, Energen classified Alagasco as held for sale with prior period comparable and reflected the associated operating results in discontinued operations. See Note 12, Discontinued Operations, for further information regarding the sale of Alagasco.

Our accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements include Energen and its subsidiaries and have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the disclosures required for complete financial statements. Results of operations for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year. In the opinion of management, the accompanying financial statements reflect all adjustments necessary to present fairly our financial position, results of operations, and cash flows for the periods and as of the dates shown. Such adjustments consist of normal recurring items. In addition, and in connection with the sale of Alagasco, we have chosen to reformat our financial statements to reflect a presentation more closely aligned with our peers in the oil and natural gas industry. As part of the financial statement reformatting, certain reclassifications were made to conform prior periods’ financial statements to the current-quarter presentation. These reclassifications primarily included further detail under operating costs and expenses. We further reclassified all commodity hedges from oil and natural gas operating revenues to gain (loss) on derivative instruments, net, as follows:

	Three months ended					Nine months ended
	September 30,					September 30,
(in thousands)	2014		2013			2014			2013
Open non-cash mark-to-market gains (losses) on derivative instruments	$	147,287	$	(63,560	)	$	53,985		$	(48,459	)
Closed gains (losses) on derivative instruments	448		(24,632		)	(44,487		)	(3,445		)
Gain (loss) on derivative instruments, net	$	147,735	$	(88,192	)	$	9,498		$	(51,904	)

We classified as discontinued operations interest on debt required to be extinguished, certain depreciation costs that ended at close, the related income tax impact of these items and the earnings of Alagasco. In addition, we reclassified from discontinued operations certain general and administrative costs, other income and the related tax impact from these items. The table below provides a detail of these items included in income (loss) from discontinued operations at September 30, 2014:

	Three months ended September 30,						Nine months ended September 30,
(in thousands)	2014			2013			2014			2013
Alagasco net income (loss)	$	(1,767	)	$	(8,961	)	$	40,646		$	37,557
Depreciation, depletion and amortization	(103		)	(150		)	(408		)	(443		)
General and administrative	1,710			1,158			3,337			4,784
Interest expense	(4,329		)	(3,676		)	(17,306		)	(9,786		)
Other income	—			(409		)	(347		)	(882		)
Income tax expense	1,029			1,145			5,567			2,392
Alagasco income (loss) from discontinued operations	(3,460		)	(10,893		)	31,489			33,622
Energen income (loss) from discontinued operations	(25		)	1,866			(1,054		)	6,269
Income (loss) from discontinued operations	$	(3,485	)	$	(9,027	)	$	30,435		$	39,891