Business Segments (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2012

Segment Reporting, Disclosure of Entity's Reportable Segments [Abstract]

Schedule of Segment Reporting Information, by Segment [Table Text Block]

The following tables present our segment information:



	Three Months Ended June 30,						Six Months Ended June 30,
	2012			2011			2012			2011
	(in thousands)
Revenues:
Oil and Gas Exploration and Production	$	97,128		$	88,054		$	185,640		$	124,825
Gas Marketing	8,917			18,897			20,751			34,099
Total	$	106,045		$	106,951		$	206,391		$	158,924

Segment income (loss) before income taxes:							—
Oil and Gas Exploration and Production	$	45,101		$	39,623		$	73,728		$	25,579
Gas Marketing	156			690			498			899
Unallocated	(26,426		)	(29,344		)	(53,256		)	(53,034		)
Total	$	18,831		$	10,969		$	20,970		$	(26,556	)



	June 30, 2012		December 31, 2011
	(in thousands)
Segment assets:
Oil and Gas Exploration and Production	$	1,841,382	$	1,461,130
Gas Marketing	9,888		14,713
Unallocated	66,558		73,913
Assets held for sale	—		148,249
Total	$	1,917,828	$	1,698,005

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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