Revenue from Contracts with Customers

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Revenue from Contract with Customer [Abstract]

Revenue from Contracts with Customers

Nature of Goods and Services

The Company explores for and produces crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids (collectively oil and gas) in select basins around the globe. The Company’s revenue from sales of oil and gas production activities are primarily subdivided into two key geographic segments: the U.S. and Canada.  Additionally, revenue from sales to customers is generated from three primary revenue streams: crude oil and condensate, natural gas liquids, and natural gas.

For operated oil and gas production where the non-operated working interest owner does not take-in-kind its proportionate interest in the produced commodity, the Company acts as an agent for the working interest owner and recognizes revenue only for its own share of the commingled production. 

U.S.- In the United States, the Company primarily produces oil and gas from fields in the Eagle Ford Shale area of South Texas and in the Gulf of Mexico.  Revenue is generally recognized when oil and gas are transferred to the customer at the delivery point. Revenue recognized is largely index based with price adjustments for floating market differentials.

Canada- In Canada, contracts are primarily long-term floating commodity index priced, except for certain natural gas physical forward sales fixed-price contracts. For the Offshore business in Canada, contracts are based on index prices and revenue is recognized at the time of vessel load based on the volumes on the bill of lading and point of custody transfer.

In the third quarter of 2019, the Company made an immaterial reclassification to correct its financial statements to report transportation, gathering, and processing costs as a separate line item (previously reported net in revenue) in the Consolidated Statements of Operations and revised all historical periods to reflect this presentation. There was no resultant change in net income attributable to Murphy.

Disaggregation of Revenue

The Company reviews performance based on two key geographical segments and between onshore and offshore sources of revenue within these geographies.

For the three-months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, the Company recognized $750.3 million and $475.5 million, respectively, from contracts with customers for the sales of oil, natural gas liquids and natural gas. For the nine-months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 the Company recognized $2,060.1 million and $1,330.4 million, respectively, from contracts with customers for the sales of oil, natural gas liquids and natural gas.

		Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(Thousands of dollars)		2019		2018		2019	2018
Net crude oil and condensate revenue
United States	Onshore	$	219,515	227,022		547,756	612,194
	Offshore	398,518		95,059		1,090,462	264,174
Canada	Onshore	31,758		34,504		88,730	87,018
	Offshore	28,408		35,929		115,686	141,313
Other		1,933		3,156		7,908	3,156
Total crude oil and condensate revenue		680,132		395,670		1,850,542	1,107,855
Net natural gas liquids revenue
United States	Onshore	5,557		19,196		22,497	48,615
	Offshore	8,414		3,600		18,184	9,013
Canada	Onshore	2,751		4,140		8,987	11,062
Total natural gas liquids revenue		16,722		26,936		49,668	68,690
Net natural gas revenue
United States	Onshore	5,848		8,833		20,762	25,670
	Offshore	15,879		3,965		29,575	11,161
Canada	Onshore	31,756		40,054		109,580	117,023
Total natural gas revenue		53,483		52,852		159,917	153,854
Total revenue from contracts with customers		750,337		475,458		2,060,127	1,330,399
Gain (loss) on crude contracts		63,247		(2,223	)	121,163	(69,349	)
Gain on sale of assets and other income 1		3,493		17,276		10,283	26,713
Total revenue		$	817,077	490,511		2,191,573	1,287,763

¹ Gain on sale of Malaysia operations of $960.0 million is reported in discontinued operations. See Note E.

Contract Balances and Asset Recognition

As of September 30, 2019, and December 31, 2018, receivables from contracts with customers, net of royalties and associated payables, on the balance sheet from continuing operations, were $146.4 million and $147.6 million, respectively. Payment terms for the Company’s sales vary across contracts and geographical regions, with the majority of the cash receipts required within 30 days of billing. Based on historical collections and ability of customers to pay, the Company did not recognize any impairment losses on receivables or contract assets arising from customer contracts during the reporting periods.

The Company has not entered into any upstream oil and gas sale contracts that have financing components as at September 30, 2019.

The Company does not employ sales incentive strategies such as commissions or bonuses for obtaining sales contracts. For the periods presented, the Company did not identify any assets to be recognized associated with the costs to obtain a contract with a customer.

Performance Obligations

The Company recognizes oil and gas revenue when it satisfies a performance obligation by transferring control over a commodity to a customer.  Judgment is required to determine whether some customers simultaneously receive and consume the benefit of commodities. As a result of this assessment for the Company, each unit of measure of the specified commodity is considered to represent a distinct performance obligation that is satisfied at a point in time upon the transfer of control of the commodity.

For contracts with market or index-based pricing, which represent the majority of sales contracts, the Company has elected the allocation exception and allocates the variable consideration to each single performance obligation in the contract. As a result, there is no price allocation to unsatisfied remaining performance obligations for delivery of commodity product in subsequent periods.

The Company has entered into several long-term, fixed-price contracts in Canada. The underlying reason for entering a fixed price contract is generally unrelated to anticipated future prices or other observable data and serves a particular purpose in the company’s long-term strategy.

As of September 30, 2019, the Company had the following sales contracts in place which are expected to generate revenue from sales to customers for a period of 12 months or more starting at the inception of the contract:

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Current Long-Term Contracts Outstanding at September 30, 2019
Location	Commodity	End Date	Description	Approximate Volumes
U.S.	Oil	Q4 2021	Fixed quantity delivery in Eagle Ford	17,000 BOED
U.S.	Oil, Gas and NGL	Q2 2026	Deliveries from dedicated acreage in Eagle Ford	As produced
U.S.	NGL	Q4 2020	Dedicated acreage delivery in GOM	As produced
Canada	Gas	Q4 2020	Contracts to sell natural gas at Alberta AECO fixed prices	59 MMCFD
Canada	Gas	Q4 2020	Contracts to sell natural gas at USD Index pricing	60 MMCFD
Canada	Gas	Q4 2021	Contracts to sell natural gas at USD Index pricing	10 MMCFD
Canada	Gas	Q4 2024	Contracts to sell natural gas at USD Index pricing	30 MMCFD
Canada	Gas	Q4 2026	Contracts to sell natural gas at USD Index pricing	38 MMCFD
Canada	Gas	Q4 2026	Contracts to sell natural gas at USD Index pricing	11 MMCFD

Fixed price contracts are accounted for as normal sales and purchases for accounting purposes.