Long-Lived and Other Asset Impairment

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2022

Long-Lived and Other Asset Impairment

Long-Lived and Other Asset Impairment

11. Long-Lived and Other Asset Impairment

We review long-lived assets, including property, plant and equipment and identifiable intangibles that are being amortized, for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances, including the removal of compressors from our active fleet, indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable.

Compression Fleet

We periodically review the future deployment of our idle compression assets for units that are not of the type, configuration, condition, make or model that are cost efficient to maintain and operate. Based on these reviews, we determine that certain idle compressors should be retired from the active fleet. The retirement of these units from the active fleet triggers a review of these assets for impairment and as a result of our review, we may record an asset impairment to reduce the book value of each unit to its estimated fair value. The fair value of each unit is estimated based on the expected net sale proceeds compared to other fleet units we recently sold, a review of other units recently offered for sale by third parties or the estimated component value of the equipment we plan to use.

In connection with our review of our idle compression assets, we evaluate for impairment idle units that were culled from our fleet in prior years and are available for sale. Based on that review, we may reduce the expected proceeds from disposition and record additional impairment to reduce the book value of each unit to its estimated fair value.

The following table presents the results of our compression fleet impairment review as recorded to our contract operations segment:

	Three Months Ended				Six Months Ended
	June 30,				June 30,
(dollars in thousands)	2022		2021		2022		2021
Idle compressors retired from the active fleet		30		45		75		115
Horsepower of idle compressors retired from the active fleet		26,000		13,000		57,000		37,000
Impairment recorded on idle compressors retired from the active fleet	$	4,647	$	2,832	$	12,056	$	9,844