Share-Based Compensation

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2015

Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract]

The Penn Virginia Corporation 2013 Amended and Restated Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “LTI Plan”) permits the grant of incentive and nonqualified stock options, common stock, deferred common stock units, restricted stock and restricted stock units to our employees and directors. We recognize compensation expense related to the LTI Plan in the General and administrative caption on our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.

With the exception of performance-based restricted stock units (“PBRSUs”), all of the awards issued under the LTI Plan are classified as equity instruments because they result in the issuance of common stock on the date of grant, upon exercise or are otherwise payable in common stock upon vesting, as applicable. The compensation cost attributable to these awards is measured at the grant date and recognized over the applicable vesting period as a non-cash item of expense. Because the PBRSUs are payable in cash, they are considered liability-classified awards and are included in the Accounts payable and accrued liabilities (current portion) and Other liabilities (noncurrent portion) captions on our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. Compensation cost associated with the PBRSUs is measured at the end of each reporting period and recognized based on the period of time that has elapsed during each of the individual performance periods.

The following table summarizes our share-based compensation expense recognized for the periods presented:



	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	September 30,						September 30,
	2015			2014			2015			2014
Equity-classified awards:
Stock option awards	$	462		$	403		$	1,242		$	1,193
Common, deferred and restricted stock and stock unit awards	801			584			2,127			1,445
	1,263			987			3,369			2,638
Liability-classified awards	(851		)	(360		)	(686		)	6,632
	$	412		$	627		$	2,683		$	9,270

In February 2015, we paid $1.5 million in cash pursuant to the terms of PBRSU grants made in 2012.