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Debt
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2014
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Debt Text Block
Debt:
 
Our debt consisted of the following:
 
 
September 30, 
 2014
 
December 31, 
 2013
 
 
(In millions)
Senior unsecured debt:
 
 
 
 
Revolving credit facility - LIBOR based loans
 
$

 
$
585

Money market lines of credit(1)
 

 
64

Total credit arrangements
 

 
649

5¾% Senior Notes due 2022
 
750

 
750

5⅝% Senior Notes due 2024
 
1,000

 
1,000

Total senior unsecured debt
 
1,750

 
2,399

7⅛% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018(2)
 
600

 
600

6⅞% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020
 
700

 
700

Discount on notes
 
(4
)
 
(5
)
Total long-term debt
 
$
3,046

 
$
3,694

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(1) Because capacity under our credit facility was available to repay borrowings under our money market lines of credit as of the indicated dates, amounts outstanding under these obligations, if any, are classified as long-term.
(2) In September 2014, we called for the redemption of these Notes. See Note 15, “Subsequent Events.”

Credit Arrangements
     
We have a revolving credit facility that matures in June 2018 and provides borrowing capacity of $1.4 billion. As of September 30, 2014, the largest individual loan commitment by any lender was 14% of total commitments.

Loans under the credit facility bear interest, at our option, equal to (a) a rate per annum equal to the higher of the prime rate announced from time to time by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. or the weighted average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System during the last preceding business day plus 50 basis points, plus a margin that is based on a grid of our debt rating (75 basis points per annum at September 30, 2014) or (b) the London Interbank Offered Rate, plus a margin that is based on a grid of our debt rating (175 basis points per annum at September 30, 2014).

Under our credit facility, we pay commitment fees on available but undrawn amounts based on a grid of our debt rating (30 basis points per annum at September 30, 2014). We incurred aggregate commitment fees under our current credit facility of approximately $1 million and $3 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2014, respectively, which are recorded in “Interest expense” on our consolidated statement of operations. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2013, we incurred commitment fees under our current credit facility of approximately $1 million and $3 million, respectively.

Our credit facility has restrictive financial covenants that include the maintenance of a ratio of total debt to book capitalization not to exceed 0.6 to 1.0 and maintenance of a ratio of earnings before gain or loss on the disposition of assets, interest expense, income taxes and noncash items (such as depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, unrealized gains and losses on commodity derivatives, ceiling test writedowns and goodwill impairments) to interest expense of at least 3.0 to 1.0. At September 30, 2014, we were in compliance with all of our debt covenants.

As of September 30, 2014, we had no letters of credit outstanding under our credit facility. Letters of credit are subject to a fronting fee of 20 basis points and annual fees based on a grid of our debt rating (175 basis points at September 30, 2014).
     
Subject to compliance with the restrictive covenants in our credit facility, at September 30, 2014, we also had a total of $195 million of available borrowing capacity under our money market lines of credit with various financial institutions, the availability of which is at the discretion of the financial institutions.
 
The credit facility includes events of default relating to customary matters, including, among other things, nonpayment of principal, interest or other amounts; violation of covenants; inaccuracy of representations and warranties in any material respect; a change of control; or certain other material adverse changes in our business. Our senior notes and senior subordinated notes also contain standard events of default. If any of the foregoing defaults were to occur, our lenders under the credit facility could terminate future lending commitments, and our lenders under both the credit facility and our notes could declare the outstanding borrowings due and payable. In addition, our credit facility, senior notes, senior subordinated notes and substantially all of our derivative arrangements contain provisions that provide for cross defaults and acceleration of those debt and derivative instruments in certain situations.