Nature of Operations

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2022

Accounting Policies [Abstract]

Nature of Operations

Note 1 – Organization and Description of Business 

Ranger Oil Corporation (together with its consolidated subsidiaries, unless the context otherwise requires, “Ranger Oil,” the “Company,” “we,” “us” or “our”) is an independent oil and gas company focused on the onshore development and production of oil, natural gas liquids (“NGLs”) and natural gas. Our current operations consist of drilling unconventional horizontal development wells and operating our producing wells in the Eagle Ford Shale (the “Eagle Ford”) in South Texas. We operate in and report our financial results and disclosures as one segment, which is the development and production of crude oil, NGLs and natural gas.

On January 15, 2021 (the “Juniper Closing Date”), the Company consummated the transactions (collectively, the “Juniper Transactions”) contemplated by: (i) the Contribution Agreement, dated November 2, 2020, by and among the Company, ROCC Energy Holdings, L.P. (formerly PV Energy Holdings, L.P., the “Partnership”) and JSTX Holdings, LLC (“JSTX”), an affiliate of Juniper Capital Advisors, L.P. (“Juniper Capital” and, together with JSTX and Rocky Creek Resources, LLC, “Juniper”); and (ii) the Contribution Agreement, dated November 2, 2020 (the “Contribution Agreement”), by and among Rocky Creek Resources, LLC, an affiliate of Juniper Capital (“Rocky Creek”), the Company and the Partnership pursuant to which Juniper contributed $150 million in cash and certain oil and gas assets in South Texas in exchange for equity. See Note 3 and Note 4 for further discussion.