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Other Expense
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Other Income and Expenses [Abstract]  
Other Expense Other Expense
The components of other expense are as follows:
 Year Ended December 31,
 202020192018
(in millions)
South Texas deficiency fee obligation, net (a)$80 $— $— 
Termination and idle drilling and frac equipment charges (b)80 25 — 
Restructuring charges (c)79 159 — 
Loss on early extinguishment of debt (d)27 — — 
Transportation commitment charges (e)16 74 161 
Legal and environmental charges12 19 21 
Parsley transactions costs (f)10 — — 
Sand shortfall purchase penalty5 — — 
Asset impairment (g)3 38 11 
Asset divestiture-related charges (h)— 25 170 
Sand mine decommissioning-related charges (i)— 23 443 
Corporate headquarters relocation-related costs (j)(1)41 — 
Vertical integration services (gain) loss (k)(2)15 2 
Other12 29 41 
Total other expense$321 $448 $849 
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(a)Represents an increase in the Company's forecasted deficiency fee payments associated with the South Texas Divestiture offset by an increase in the forecasted deficiency fee receivable from the buyer. See Note 3 and Note 4 for additional information.
(b)Includes idle frac fleet fees, stacked drilling rig charges and drilling rig early termination charges.
(c)Primarily represents employee-related charges associated with the 2020 Corporate Restructuring and the 2019 Corporate Restructuring Program. See Note 3 and Note 8 for additional information.
(d)Represents the loss on early debt extinguishment attributable to certain of the Company's senior notes and its 364-day credit agreement. See Note 7 for additional information.
(e)Primarily represents firm transportation charges on excess pipeline capacity commitments.
(f)Represents legal, audit and other transactional costs incurred in conjunction with the Parsley acquisition.
(g)In 2019 and 2018, the charges primarily represent inventory and other asset impairment charges associated with the decommissioning of the Company's Brady, Texas sand mine and pumping services assets that have no future benefit to the Company. See Note 3 and Note 4 for additional information.
(h)Primarily represents employee-related charges and contract termination charges associated with the Company's divestitures. See Note 3 for additional information.
(i)Represents accelerated depreciation related to the decommissioning of the Company's Brady, Texas sand mine. See Note 3 for additional information.
(j)Represents costs associated with relocating to the Hidden Ridge Building, including $28 million of accelerated amortization of the operating lease right-of-use asset associated with the Company's former corporate headquarters and $12 million of exit and relocation-related costs.
(k)Primarily represents net margins (attributable to third party working interest owners) that result from Company-provided vertically integrated services, which are ancillary to and supportive of the Company's oil and gas joint operating activities, and do not represent intercompany transactions. For the three years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, these vertical integration net margins included $42 million, $51 million and $128 million of gross vertical integration revenues, respectively, and $40 million, $66 million and $130 million of total vertical integration costs and expenses, respectively.