Leases (Notes)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2021

We adopted a comprehensive new lease accounting standard effective January 1, 2019. The details of the significant changes to our accounting policies resulting from the adoption of the new standard are set out below. We adopted the standard using the optional modified retrospective transition method. The adoption of this standard did not materially impact our consolidated results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2019.

Beginning January 1, 2019, for operating leases, lease expense for lease payments is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term and accretion of the lease liability, while finance leases include both an operating expense and an interest expense component. For all leases with a term of 12 months or less, we recognize lease expense for these short-term leases on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

We are a lessee for numerous operating leases, primarily related to real estate, transportation, and equipment. The vast majority of our operating leases have remaining lease terms of 10 years or less, some of which include options to extend the leases, and some of which include options to terminate the leases. We generally do not include renewal or termination options in our assessment of the leases unless extension or termination for certain assets is deemed to be reasonably certain. The accounting for some of our leases may require judgment, which includes determining whether a contract contains a lease, determining the incremental borrowing rates to utilize in our net present value calculation of lease payments for lease agreements which do not provide an implicit rate, and assessing the likelihood of renewal or termination options. We also have some lease agreements with lease and non-lease components, which are generally accounted for as a single lease component. For certain equipment leases, such as offshore vessels and drilling rigs, we account for the lease and non-lease components separately.

The following tables illustrate the financial impact of our leases as of and for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, along with other supplemental information about our existing leases:


	Year Ended December 31
Millions of dollars	2021		2020		2019
Components of lease expense:
Finance lease cost:
Amortization of right-of-use assets	$	20	$	19	$	19
Interest on lease liabilities	38		32		51
Operating lease cost	274		296		355
Short-term lease cost	27		31		110
Sublease income	(4)		(4)		(5)
Total lease cost	$	355	$	374	$	530


	As of December 31
Millions of dollars	2021		2020
Components of balance sheet:
Operating leases:
Operating lease right-of-use assets (non-current)	$	934	$	786
Current portion of operating lease liabilities	240		251
Operating lease liabilities (non-current)	845		758
Finance leases:
Other assets (non-current)	$	85	$	113
Other current liabilities	26		24
Other liabilities (non-current)	85		118

During the year ended December 31, 2021, we completed a sale-leaseback transaction, which resulted in an increase of our operating right-of-use assets and operating lease liabilities of $276 million. During the year ended December 31, 2020, impairment charges were recorded related to operating and finance lease right-of-use assets totaling $191 million. See Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements for further discussion on impairments and other charges and the sale-leaseback transaction.


	Year Ended December 31
Millions of dollars except years and percentages	2021			2020			2019
Other supplemental information:
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
Operating cash flows from operating leases	$	307		$	299		$	316
Operating cash flows from finance leases	38			32			51
Financing cash flows from finance leases	24			21			24
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations:
Operating leases	$	433		$	447		$	1,362
Finance leases	6			39			74
Weighted-average remaining lease term:
Operating leases	9.8 years			8.6 years			9.5 years
Finance leases	6.3 years			6.4 years			5.4 years
Weighted-average discount rate for operating leases	4.9		%	4.1		%	4.4		%

The following table summarizes the maturity of our operating and finance leases as of December 31, 2021:


Millions of dollars	Operating Leases		Finance Leases
2022	$	288	$	63
2023	198		61
2024	136		47
2025	105		36
2026	91		34
Thereafter	624		15
Total lease payments	1,442		256
Less imputed interest	(357)		(145)
Total	$	1,085	$	111