Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Deferred Costs, Capitalized, Prepaid, and Other Assets Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of prepaid expenses and other current assets

The components of prepaid expenses and other current assets consist of the following (in thousands):

	September 30, 2019		December 31, 2018
Prepaid expenses	$	1,093	$	2,279
Deposits	498		1,336
Future proceeds from sale of Magellan Petroleum UK (Note 3)	4,969		—
Tradable equity securities (Note 3)	3,731		—
Derivative asset, current (Note 6)	3,209		—
Other current assets	198		291
Total prepaid expenses and other current assets	$	13,698	$	3,906