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Revenues
6 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
Revenue From Contract With Customer [Abstract]  
Revenues

NOTE 3: Revenues

Lease bonus income

The Company generates lease bonus revenue by leasing its mineral interests to exploration and production companies. A lease agreement represents the Company's contract with a third party and generally conveys the rights to any oil, NGL or natural gas discovered, grants the Company a right to a specified royalty interest and requires that drilling and completion operations commence within a specified time period. Control is transferred to the lessee and the Company has satisfied its performance obligation when the lease agreement is executed, such that revenue is recognized when the lease bonus payment is received. The Company accounts for its lease bonuses as conveyances in accordance with the guidance set forth in Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 932, and it recognizes the lease bonus as a cost recovery with any excess above its cost basis in the mineral being treated as a gain. The excess of lease bonus above the mineral basis is shown in the lease bonuses and rental income line item on the Company’s Statements of Operations.

Oil and natural gas derivative contracts

See Note 10 for discussion of the Company’s accounting for derivative contracts.

Revenues from Contracts with Customers

Oil, NGL and natural gas sales

Sales of oil, NGL and natural gas are recognized when production is sold to a purchaser and control has transferred. Oil is priced on the delivery date based upon prevailing prices published by purchasers with certain adjustments related to oil quality and physical location. The price the Company receives for natural gas and NGL is tied to a market index, with certain adjustments based on, among other factors, whether a well delivers to a gathering or transmission line, quality and heat content of natural gas, and prevailing supply and demand conditions, so that the price of natural gas fluctuates to remain competitive with other available natural gas supplies. These market indices are determined on a monthly basis. Each unit of commodity is considered a separate performance obligation; however, as consideration is variable, the Company utilizes the variable consideration allocation exception permitted under the standard to allocate the variable consideration to the specific units of commodity to which they relate.

Disaggregation of oil, NGL and natural gas revenues

The following table presents the disaggregation of the Company's oil, NGL and natural gas revenues for the three and six months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019:

 

 

Three Months Ended March 31, 2020

 

 

Six Months Ended March 31, 2020

 

 

 

 

Royalty Interest

 

 

Working Interest

 

 

Total

 

 

Royalty Interest

 

 

Working Interest

 

 

Total

 

 

Oil revenue

 

$

3,126,132

 

 

$

1,641,643

 

 

$

4,767,775

 

 

$

4,539,343

 

 

$

3,693,944

 

 

$

8,233,287

 

 

NGL revenue

 

 

196,311

 

 

 

328,430

 

 

 

524,741

 

 

 

419,088

 

 

 

720,536

 

 

 

1,139,624

 

 

Natural gas revenue

 

 

1,245,413

 

 

 

1,444,976

 

 

 

2,690,389

 

 

 

2,518,527

 

 

 

3,685,305

 

 

 

6,203,832

 

 

Oil, NGL and natural gas sales

 

$

4,567,856

 

 

$

3,415,049

 

 

$

7,982,905

 

 

$

7,476,958

 

 

$

8,099,785

 

 

$

15,576,743

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three Months Ended March 31, 2019

 

 

Six Months Ended March 31, 2019

 

 

 

 

Royalty Interest

 

 

Working Interest

 

 

Total

 

 

Royalty Interest

 

 

Working Interest

 

 

Total

 

 

Oil revenue

 

$

1,552,380

 

 

$

2,377,225

 

 

$

3,929,605

 

 

$

3,856,185

 

 

$

4,552,400

 

 

$

8,408,585

 

 

NGL revenue

 

 

186,884

 

 

 

629,478

 

 

 

816,362

 

 

 

628,111

 

 

 

1,643,086

 

 

 

2,271,197

 

 

Natural gas revenue

 

 

1,411,154

 

 

 

3,064,198

 

 

 

4,475,352

 

 

 

3,442,266

 

 

 

7,309,990

 

 

 

10,752,256

 

 

Oil, NGL and natural gas sales

 

$

3,150,418

 

 

$

6,070,901

 

 

$

9,221,319

 

 

$

7,926,562

 

 

$

13,505,476

 

 

$

21,432,038

 

 

Prior-period performance obligations and contract balances

The Company records revenue in the month production is delivered to the purchaser. As a non-operator, the Company has limited visibility into the timing of when new wells start producing and production statements may not be received for 30 to 90 days or more after the date production is delivered. As a result, the Company is required to estimate the amount of production delivered to the purchaser and the price that will be received for the sale of the product. The expected sales volumes and prices for these properties are estimated and recorded within the Oil, NGL and natural gas sales receivables line item on the Company’s Balance Sheets. The difference between the Company's estimates and the actual amounts received for oil, NGL and natural gas sales is recorded in the quarter that payment is received from the third party. For the three and six months ended March 31, 2019,  revenue recognized in these reporting periods related to performance obligations satisfied in prior reporting periods for existing wells was immaterial and considered a change in estimate.

As noted above, as a non-operator, there are instances when the Company is limited by the information operators provide to us. Through the use of new technological platforms as well as cash received on new wells, in the 2020 second quarter, the Company identified several producing properties on our minerals that had production dates prior to the 2020 second quarter. Estimates of the oil and natural gas sales related to those properties were made and are reflected in the second quarter Oil, NGL and natural gas sales on the Company’s Statements of Operations and on the Company’s Balance Sheets in Oil, NGL and natural gas sales receivables. In connection with obtaining more relevant information identifying additional new wells on Panhandle acreage, we have recorded a change in estimate for new wells to Oil, NGL and natural gas sales totaling $1,871,245 of which $1,322,115 related to the production periods before October 1, 2019, and $549,130 related to first quarter of 2020. This reduced loss before benefit for income taxes by $1,717,948 in the three and six months ended March 31, 2020. This resulted in decreases in both net loss of $1,283,339 and $0.08 loss per common share for the three months ended March 31, 2020, and decreases in both net loss of $1,263,155 and $0.08 loss per common share for the six months ended March 31, 2020.