Other Expense (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2021

Other Income and Expenses [Abstract]

Schedule of components of other expense

The components of other expense are as follows:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2021		2020		2019
	(in millions)
Parsley Acquisition transaction costs (a)	$	211	$	10	$	—
Winter Storm Uri gas commitments (b)	80		—		—
Unoccupied facility expense (c)	38		(1)		—
DoublePoint Acquisition transaction costs (d)	33		—		—
Transportation commitment charges (e)	22		16		74
Legal and environmental charges	17		12		19
Termination and idle drilling and frac equipment charges (f)	10		80		25
Asset impairment (g)	4		3		38
Loss on early extinguishment of debt ( Note 7)	2		27		—
Restructuring charges (Note 3)	2		79		159
Asset divestiture-related charges (h)	1		—		25
Sand mine decommissioning-related charges (Note 3)	—		—		23
Corporate headquarters relocation-related costs (i)	—		—		41
Vertical integration services (gain) loss (j)	(6)		(2)		15
South Texas deficiency fee obligation, net (Note 4)	(10)		80		—
Other	6		17		29
	$	410	$	321	$	448

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(a)Represents costs associated with the Parsley Acquisition, which include $90 million of employee-related costs and $121 million of transaction-related fees during the year ended December 31, 2021. See Note 3 for additional information.

(b)Represents costs related to the Company's fulfillment of certain firm gas commitments during Winter Storm Uri in February 2021.

(c)Primarily represents facilities expense associated with certain acquired Parsley offices that were not occupied.

(d)Represents costs associated with the DoublePoint Acquisition, which includes $14 million of employee-related costs and $19 million of transaction-related fees. See Note 3 for additional information.

(e)Primarily represents firm transportation charges on excess pipeline capacity commitments.

(f)Includes idle frac fleet fees, stacked drilling rig charges and drilling rig early termination charges.

(g)Asset impairments in 2019 primarily represents an impairment charge to inventory and other property and equipment related to the decommissioning of the Company's Brady, Texas sand mine and an impairment charge related to pumping services assets that had no future benefit to the Company. See Note 3 and Note 4 for additional information.

(h)Primarily represents employee-related costs and contract termination charges associated with the Company's 2019 divestitures.

(i)Represents costs associated with relocating the Company's corporate headquarters, 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.

(j)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, 2021, 2020 and 2019, the vertical integration net margins included $40 million, $42 million and $51 million of gross vertical integration revenues, respectively, and $34 million, $40 million and $66 million of total vertical integration costs and expenses, respectively. During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company divested its well services business and continues to operate its water services business. See Note 3 for additional information.