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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2023
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Principles of consolidation. The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned and majority-owned subsidiaries since their acquisition or formation. All material intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated.
Use of estimates in the preparation of financial statements. Preparation of the Company's consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. Depletion of oil and gas properties is determined using estimates of proved oil and gas reserves. There are numerous uncertainties inherent in the estimation of quantities of proved reserves and in the projection of future rates of production and the timing of development expenditures. Similarly, evaluations for impairment of proved and unproved oil and gas properties are subject to numerous uncertainties including, among others, estimates of future recoverable proved and risk-adjusted probable reserves, commodity price outlooks and prevailing market rates of other sources of income and costs. Actual results could differ from the estimates and assumptions utilized.
Cash and cash equivalents. The Company's cash and cash equivalents include depository accounts held by banks and marketable securities (including commercial paper and time deposits) with original issuance maturities of 90 days or less.
Accounts receivable, net. The Company's net accounts receivable balance is primarily comprised of oil and gas sales receivables, joint interest receivables and other receivables for which the Company does not require collateral security. The Company's share of oil and gas production is sold to various purchasers who must be prequalified under the Company's credit risk policies and procedures. The Company records allowances for doubtful accounts based on historical collection experience, current and future economic and market conditions, the length of time that the accounts receivables have been outstanding and the financial condition of its purchasers. The Company's credit risk related to collecting accounts receivables is mitigated by using credit and other financial criteria to evaluate the credit standing of the entity obligated to make payment on the accounts receivable, and where appropriate, the Company obtains assurances of payment, such as a guarantee by the parent company of the counterparty, letters of credit or other credit support.
The Company considers forward-looking information to estimate expected credit losses. The Company establishes allowances for bad debts equal to the estimable portions of accounts receivable for which failure to collect is expected to occur. The Company estimates uncollectible amounts for joint interest receivables based on the length of time that the accounts
receivables have been outstanding, historical collection experience and current and future economic and market conditions. Allowances for doubtful accounts are recorded as reductions to the carrying values of the receivables included in the Company's consolidated balance sheets and are recorded in other expense in the consolidated statements of operations in the accounting periods during which failure to collect an estimable portion is determined to be probable. The Company's allowance for doubtful accounts totaled $11 million and $10 million as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
Inventories. The Company's inventories consist of materials, supplies and commodities. The Company's materials and supplies inventory is primarily comprised of oil and gas maintenance materials and repair parts, water, sand and other operating supplies. The materials and supplies inventory is primarily acquired for use in future drilling, production or repair operations and is carried at the lower of cost or net realizable value, on a weighted average cost basis. Valuation allowances for materials and supplies inventories are recorded as reductions to the carrying values of the materials and supplies inventories included in the Company's consolidated balance sheets and as charges in other expense in the consolidated statements of operations.
Commodity inventories are carried at the lower of cost or market, on a first-in, first-out basis. The Company's commodity inventories consist of oil, NGL, gas and diesel volumes held in storage or as linefill in pipelines. Any valuation allowances of commodity inventories are recorded as reductions to the carrying values of the commodity inventories included in the Company's consolidated balance sheets and as charges to other expense in the consolidated statements of operations.
The components of inventories are as follows:
As of December 31,
20232022
(in millions)
Materials and supplies$207 $146 
Commodities269 278 
Total inventories$476 $424 
Investment in affiliate. Based on the Company's ownership in ProPetro Holding Corp. ("ProPetro") and representation on the ProPetro board of directors, ProPetro is considered an affiliate and deemed to be a related party. The Company uses the fair value option to account for its equity method investment in ProPetro, with any changes in fair value recorded in interest and other income in the consolidated statements of operations. The carrying value of the Company's investment in ProPetro is included in investment in affiliate in the consolidated balance sheets. See Note 4 and Note 11 for additional information.
Oil and gas properties. The Company utilizes the successful efforts method of accounting for its oil and gas properties. Under this method, all costs associated with productive wells and nonproductive development wells are capitalized while nonproductive exploration costs and geological and geophysical expenditures are expensed. Oil and gas leasehold acquisition costs are capitalized when incurred and included as unproved oil and gas properties in the consolidated balance sheets.
The Company does not carry the costs of drilling an exploratory well as an asset in its consolidated balance sheets following the completion of drilling unless both of the following conditions are met: (i) the well has found a sufficient quantity of reserves to justify its completion as a producing well and (ii) the Company is making sufficient progress assessing the reserves and the economic and operating viability of the project. The Company's exploratory wells include extension wells that extend the limits of a known reservoir.
Due to the capital intensive nature and the geographical location of certain projects, it may take an extended period of time to evaluate the future potential of an exploration project and the economics associated with making a determination on its commercial viability. In these instances, the project's feasibility is not contingent upon price improvements or advances in technology, but rather the Company's ongoing efforts and expenditures related to accurately predicting the hydrocarbon recoverability based on well information, gaining access to other companies' production data in the area, transportation or processing facilities, and/or getting partner approval to drill additional appraisal wells. These activities are ongoing and being pursued constantly. Consequently, the Company's assessment of suspended exploratory/extension well costs is continuous until a decision can be made that the project has found sufficient proved reserves to sanction the project or is determined to be noncommercial and is charged to exploration and abandonments expense. See Note 5 for additional information.
As of December 31, 2023, the Company owned a participating interest in 11 gas processing plants, including the related gathering systems. The Company's ownership interests in the gas processing plants are primarily to accommodate handling the Company's gas production and thus are considered a component of the capital and operating costs of the respective fields that
the plants service. The operator of the plants process the Company's and third-party gas volumes for a fee. The Company's share of revenues and expenses derived from volumes processed through the plants are reported as components of oil and gas production costs. Revenues generated from the plants for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021 were $226 million, $274 million and $271 million, respectively. Expenses attributable to the plants for the same respective periods were $58 million, $27 million and $61 million. The capitalized costs of the plants are included in proved oil and gas properties and are depleted using the unit-of-production method along with the other capitalized costs of the field that they service.
The capitalized costs of proved properties are depleted using the unit-of-production method based on proved reserves. Costs of significant nonproducing properties, wells in the process of being drilled and in-process development projects are excluded from depletion until the related project is completed and proved reserves are established or, if unsuccessful, abandonments expense is recognized.
Proceeds from the sales of individual properties and the capitalized costs of individual properties sold or abandoned are credited and charged, respectively, to accumulated depletion, depreciation and amortization, if doing so does not materially impact the depletion rate of its amortization base. Generally, no gain or loss is recorded until an entire amortization base is sold. However, gain or loss is recorded from the sale of less than an entire amortization base if the disposition is significant enough to materially impact the depletion rate of the remaining properties in the amortization base.
The Company's nonmonetary transactions include exchanges of both proved and unproved oil and gas properties and require evaluations to determine appropriate accounting treatment based on the individual facts and circumstances of each transaction. Transactions that are determined to have commercial substance are accounted for at fair value. Assumptions used to determine the fair value assigned to the proved and unproved oil and gas properties, are similar to those used in the valuation of oil and gas assets acquired during a business combination. Any resulting difference between the fair value of the assets involved and their carrying value is recorded in net gain (loss) on disposition of assets in the consolidated statements of operations.
Other property and equipment, net. Other property and equipment is recorded at cost. The carrying values of other property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively, are as follows:
As of December 31,
20232022
(in millions)
Land and buildings (a)$762 $835 
Water and power infrastructure (b)
753 709 
Information technology63 55 
Transport and field equipment (c)48 25 
Furniture and fixtures18 21 
Sand reserves12 13 
Total other property and equipment, net$1,656 $1,658 
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(a)Includes land, buildings, any related improvements to land and buildings and a finance lease entered into by the Company for its corporate headquarters in Irving, Texas. See Note 9 for additional information.
(b)Includes costs for water pipeline infrastructure, water supply wells, water treatment facilities and electric power backbone infrastructure.
(c)Includes vehicles and airplanes.
Other property and equipment is net of accumulated depreciation of $421 million and $371 million as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Other property and equipment is depreciated over its estimated useful life on a straight-line basis when the asset is placed into service. Buildings are generally depreciated over 20 to 39 years. Water and power infrastructure is generally depreciated over three to 50 years. Equipment, vehicles, aircraft, furniture and fixtures and information technology assets are generally depreciated over three to 10 years. Sand reserves are depleted using the unit-of-production method.
Leases. The Company enters into operating leases for drilling rigs, storage tanks, field equipment and buildings, and has one finance lease for its corporate headquarters in Irving, Texas. The Company recognizes lease expense on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Lease right-of-use assets and liabilities are initially recorded on the lease commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term. As the Company's lease contracts do not provide an implicit discount rate, the Company uses its incremental borrowing rate, which is determined based on information available at the commencement
date of a lease. Leases may include renewal, purchase or termination options that can extend or shorten the term of the lease. The exercise of those options is at the Company's sole discretion and is evaluated at inception and throughout the contract to determine if a modification of the lease term is required. Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded as a lease right-of-use asset and liability. See Note 9 for additional information.
Impairment of long-lived assets. The Company performs assessments of its long-lived assets to be held and used, whenever events or circumstances indicate that the carrying value of those assets may not be recoverable.
An impairment loss on proved oil and gas properties is indicated if the sum of the expected future cash flows, including cash flows from the Company's water services business that are used in the development of the assets, is less than the carrying amount of the assets, including the carrying value of the Company's water services business. In these circumstances, the Company recognizes an impairment charge for the amount by which the carrying amount of the assets exceeds the estimated fair value of the assets.
Unproved oil and gas properties are periodically assessed for impairment on a project-by-project basis. These impairment assessments are affected by the results of current and planned exploration activities, commodity price outlooks, planned future property sales or expiration of all or a portion of such projects. If the Company's assessment determines that a project is not expected to be developed, the Company will recognize an impairment charge at that time. Impairment charges for unproved oil and gas properties are recorded in exploration and abandonments expense in the consolidated statements of operations.
Whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of other long-lived assets, including the Company's operating lease right-of-use assets, may not be recoverable, an impairment assessment is performed and the Company recognizes an impairment charge for the amount by which the carrying amount of the assets exceeds the estimated fair value of the assets determined using either a discounted future cash flow model or another appropriate fair value method.
See Note 4 and Note 14 for additional information.
Goodwill. Goodwill is assessed for impairment whenever it is more likely than not that events or circumstances indicate the carrying value of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value, but no less often than annually. An impairment charge is recorded for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the fair value of a reporting unit in the period it is determined to be impaired. See Note 4 for additional information.
Capitalized interest. The Company capitalizes interest from external borrowings on expenditures for significant development projects (having an expected construction period of one year or longer) until such projects are ready for their intended use. Capitalized interest is added to the cost of the underlying asset and is amortized over the useful lives of the assets in the same manner as the underlying assets.
Asset retirement obligations. The Company records a liability for the fair value of an asset retirement obligation in the period in which the associated asset is acquired or placed into service, if a reasonable estimate of fair value can be made. Fair value is determined using a present value approach, incorporating assumptions about estimated amounts and timing of settlements. Asset retirement obligations are generally capitalized as part of the carrying value of the long-lived asset to which it relates. Conditional asset retirement obligations are recorded when probable and the fair value can be reasonably estimated.
The Company includes the current and noncurrent portions of asset retirement obligations in other current liabilities and other liabilities, respectively, in the consolidated balance sheets and expenditures are included as cash used in operating activities in the consolidated statements of cash flows. Incremental plugging and abandonment costs for individual wells and related facilities that exceed their estimated asset retirement obligation are recorded in exploration and abandonments expense in the consolidated statements of operations. See Note 8 for additional information.
Treasury shares. Treasury share purchases are recorded at cost. Upon reissuance, the cost of treasury shares held is reduced by the average purchase price per share of the aggregate treasury shares held.
Revenue recognition. The Company recognizes revenue when control of the promised goods or services is transferred to customers at an amount that reflects the consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services.
Oil sales. The Company recognizes oil sales revenue when (i) control/custody transfers to the purchaser and (ii) the agreed-upon index price, net of any price differentials, is fixed and determinable. Any costs incurred prior to the transfer of control to the customer, such as gathering and transportation costs, are recognized as oil and gas production costs.
NGL and gas sales. Under the majority of the Company's gas processing contracts, gas is delivered to a midstream processing entity and the Company elects to take residue gas and NGLs in-kind at the tailgate of the gas processing plant. The Company recognizes revenue when the products are delivered (custody transfer) to the ultimate third-party purchaser at a contractually agreed-upon delivery point at a specified index price, with gathering and processing fees recognized as oil and gas production costs. For NGL and gas products that the Company does not take in-kind, the Company recognizes revenue when the products are delivered to the midstream gathering or processing entity at a specified index price, net of downstream gathering and processing fees.
Net effect from sales of purchased commodities. The Company enters into pipeline capacity commitments in order to secure available oil, NGL and gas transportation capacity from the Company's areas of production and to secure diesel supply from the Gulf Coast. The Company also enters into purchase commitments to secure sand supply for the Company's operations in the Midland Basin. The Company enters into purchase transactions with third parties and separate sale transactions with third parties to diversify a portion of the Company's oil and gas sales to (i) Gulf Coast refineries, (ii) Gulf Coast and West Coast gas markets and (iii) international oil markets, and to satisfy unused gas pipeline capacity commitments. The Company periodically sells diesel and sand to unaffiliated third parties in the Permian Basin if it has supply in excess of its operational needs. Revenues and expenses from these transactions are generally presented on a gross basis in sales of purchased commodities and purchased commodities expense in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations as the Company acts as a principal in the transaction by assuming both the risks and rewards of ownership, including credit risk, of the commodities purchased and the responsibility to deliver the commodities sold. In conjunction with the Company's downstream sales, the Company also enters into pipeline capacity and storage commitments in order to secure available oil and gas transportation capacity from the Company's areas of production to downstream sales points and storage capacity at downstream sales points. The transportation and storage costs associated with these transactions are included in purchased commodities expense.
See Note 13 for additional information.
Derivatives. All of the Company's derivatives are accounted for as non-hedge derivatives and are recorded at estimated fair value in the consolidated balance sheets. All changes in the fair values of its derivative contracts are recorded as gains or losses in the earnings of the periods in which they occur. The Company periodically enters into commodity price derivative positions, including oil production derivatives, NGL production derivatives and gas production derivatives. From time to time, the Company enters into contracts that contain embedded derivatives. These contracts are reviewed when they are entered into in order to identify and account for the derivative components. The Company's marketing derivatives and derivatives related to exercised conversion options on convertible senior notes were deemed derivatives embedded in host contracts.
The Company enters into derivatives under master netting arrangements, which, in an event of default, allows the Company to offset payables to and receivables from the defaulting counterparty. The Company classifies the fair value amounts of derivative assets and liabilities executed under master netting arrangements as net current or noncurrent other assets or net current or noncurrent derivative liabilities, whichever the case may be, by instrument type and counterparty.
The Company enters into International Swap Dealers Association Master Agreements ("ISDA Agreements") with its commodity price derivative counterparties. The terms of the ISDA Agreements provide the Company and the counterparties with rights of set off upon the occurrence of defined acts of default by either the Company or a counterparty to a derivative, whereby the party not in default may set off all derivative liabilities owed to the defaulting party against all derivative asset receivables from the defaulting party. See Note 4 for additional information.
Income taxes. The provision for income taxes is determined using the asset and liability approach of accounting for income taxes. Under this approach, deferred income taxes reflect the net tax effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes and net operating loss and tax credit carryforwards. The amount of deferred taxes on these temporary differences is determined using the tax rates that are expected to apply to the period when the asset is realized or the liability is settled, as applicable, based on tax rates and laws in the respective tax jurisdiction enacted as of the balance sheet date.
The Company reviews its deferred tax assets for recoverability and establishes a valuation allowance based on projected future taxable income, applicable tax strategies and the expected timing of the reversals of existing temporary differences. A
valuation allowance is provided when it is more likely than not (likelihood of greater than 50 percent) that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.
The Company recognizes the tax benefit from an uncertain tax position only if it is more likely than not that the tax position will be sustained upon examination by the taxing authorities, based upon the technical merits of the position. If all or a portion of the unrecognized tax benefit is sustained upon examination by the taxing authorities, the tax benefit will be recognized as a reduction to the Company's deferred tax liability and will affect the Company's effective tax rate in the period it is recognized.
The Company records any tax-related interest charges as interest expense and any tax-related penalties as other expense in the consolidated statements of operations.
See Note 15 for additional information.
Share-based compensation. Share-based compensation expense for restricted share awards and units ("Equity Awards") and performance units ("Performance Awards") expected to be settled in the Company's common shares are measured at the grant date or modification date, as applicable, using the fair value of the award, and are recorded, net of estimated forfeitures, on a straight line basis over the remaining requisite service period of the respective award. The fair value of Equity Awards are determined on the grant date or modification date, as applicable, using the prior day's closing share price. The fair value of Performance Awards that are based upon meeting certain Company performance metrics are valued using the Company's prior day's closing share price, with consideration given to the probability of the performance metrics being achieved. The fair value of Performance Awards that are based upon the Company's relative total shareholder return are determined using a Monte Carlo simulation model. The Company has no program, plan or practice to coordinate the timing of grants of share-based compensation with the release of material nonpublic information.
Equity Awards and Performance Awards are net settled by withholding shares of the Company's common shares to satisfy income tax withholding payments due upon vesting. Remaining vested shares are remitted to individual employee brokerage accounts. Shares to be delivered upon vesting of Equity Awards and Performance Awards are made available from authorized, but unissued, shares.
Restricted share units expected to be settled in cash on their vesting dates, rather than in common shares ("Liability Awards"), are included in accounts payable – due to affiliates in the consolidated balance sheets. The fair value of Liability Awards on the grant date is determined using the prior day's closing share price. The Company recognizes the value of Liability Awards on a straight line basis over the remaining requisite service period of the award. Liability Awards are recorded at fair value as of each balance sheet date using the closing share price on the balance sheet date. Changes in the fair value of Liability Awards are recorded as increases or decreases to share-based compensation expense.
Equity Awards, Performance Awards and Liability Awards participate in dividends during their vesting periods and generally vest over three years.
See Note 7 for additional information.
Net income (loss) per share. The Company's basic net income per share attributable to common shareholders is computed as (i) net income attributable to common shareholders, (ii) less participating share-based basic earnings (iii) divided by weighted average basic shares outstanding. The Company's diluted net income per share attributable to common shareholders is computed as (i) basic net income attributable to common shareholders, (ii) plus the reallocation of participating earnings, if any, (iii) plus the after-tax interest expense associated with the Company's convertible senior notes that are assumed to be converted into shares (iv) divided by weighted average diluted shares outstanding, which assumes the Company's convertible senior notes were converted into shares of the Company's common shares at the beginning of the reporting period. Diluted net income per share attributable to common shareholders is calculated under both the two-class method and the treasury share method and the more dilutive of the two calculations is presented. During periods in which the Company realizes a net loss attributable to common shareholders, securities or other contracts to issue common shares would be dilutive to loss per share; therefore, conversion into common shares is assumed not to occur. See Note 16 for additional information.
Segments. Based upon how the Company is organized and managed, the Company has one reportable operating segment, which is oil and gas development, exploration and production. The Company considers its water services business and sales of purchased commodities as ancillary to its oil and gas development, exploration and producing activities and manages
them to support such activities. In addition, the Company has a single, company-wide management team that allocates capital resources to maximize profitability and measures financial performance as a single enterprise.
New accounting standards. In November 2023, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2023-07, "Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures," which is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023 and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024 with early adoption permitted. The amendments in this Accounting Standards Update are focused on reportable segment disclosure requirements, primarily related to significant segment expenses, and are required to be applied retrospectively to all prior periods presented in a company's consolidated financial statements.
In December 2023, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2023-09, "Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures," which is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024 with early adoption permitted. The amendments in this Accounting Standards Update are focused on income tax disclosure requirements, primarily related to the income tax rate reconciliation and income taxes paid, with prospective application to a company's consolidated financial statements recommended.
The Company is currently assessing the impacts of these new accounting standards on its disclosures.