Leases

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2020

LEASES

Nature of Leases

The Company has operating leases on certain equipment and field offices with remaining lease durations in excess of one year. The Company recognizes a right-of-use asset and lease liability on the balance sheet for all leases with lease terms of greater than one year. Short-term leases that have an initial term of one year or less are not capitalized.

The Company has entered into contracts for drilling rigs with varying terms with third parties to ensure operational continuity, cost control and rig availability in its operations. The Company has concluded its drilling rig contracts are operating leases as the assets are identifiable and the Company has the right to control the identified assets. The Company's drilling rig commitments are typically structured with an initial term of less than one year to two years, although at December 31, 2020, the Company did not have any active long-term drilling rig contracts in place. These agreements typically include renewal options at the end of the initial term. Due to the nature of the Company's drilling schedules and potential volatility in commodity prices, the Company is unable to determine at contract commencement with reasonable certainty if the renewal options will be exercised; therefore, renewal options are not considered in the lease term for drilling contracts. The operating lease liabilities associated with these rig commitments, when applicable, are based on the minimum contractual obligations, primarily standby rates, and do not include variable amounts based on actual activity in a given period. Pursuant to the full cost method of accounting, these costs are capitalized as part of oil and natural gas properties on the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. A portion of drilling costs are borne by other interest owners in our wells.

Effective October 1, 2014, the Company entered into an Amended and Restated Master Services Agreement for pressure pumping services with Stingray, a subsidiary of Mammoth Energy and a related party. Pursuant to this agreement, as amended effective July 1, 2018, Stingray has agreed to provide hydraulic fracturing, stimulation and related completion and rework services to the Company through 2021 and the Company has agreed to pay Stingray a monthly service fee plus the associated costs of the services provided. As discussed further in Note 18, the Company terminated the Master Services Agreement for pressure pumping with Stingray. As a result, in the first quarter of 2020, Gulfport removed the related right of use assets and lease liabilities associated with the terminated contract.

The Company rents office space for its field locations and certain other equipment from third parties, which expire at various dates through 2024. These agreements are typically structured with non-cancelable terms of one to five years. The Company has determined these agreements represent operating leases with a lease term that equals the primary non-cancelable contract term. The Company has included any renewal options that it has determined are reasonably certain of exercise in the determination of the lease terms.

As of December 31, 2020, all lease liabilities have been classified as liabilities subject to compromise in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet.

Discount Rate

As most of the Company's leases do not provide an implicit rate, the Company uses its incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at commencement date in determining the present value of lease payments. The Company's

incremental borrowing rate reflects the estimated rate of interest that it would pay to borrow on a collateralized basis over a similar term an amount equal to the lease payments in a similar economic environment.

Future amounts due under operating lease liabilities as of December 31, 2020 were as follows:


	(In thousands)
2021	$	129
2022	115
2023	90
2024	30
Total lease payments	364
Less: Imputed interest	(22)
Less: amounts reclassified to liabilities subject to compromise	(342)
Total lease liabilities	$	—

Lease costs incurred for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 consisted of the following:


	For the Year Ended December 31,
	2020		2019
	(In thousands)
Operating lease cost	$	9,658	$	24,960
Operating lease cost - related party	—		22,440
Variable lease cost	586		2,172
Variable lease cost - related party	—		66,924
Short-term lease cost	9,361		834
Total lease cost(1)	$	19,605	$	117,330

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(1) The majority of the Company's total lease cost was capitalized to the full cost pool, and the remainder was included in general and administrative expenses in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.

Supplemental cash flow information for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 related to leases was as follows:



	For the Year Ended December 31,
	2020	2019
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities	(In thousands)
Operating cash flows from operating leases	140	182
Investing cash flow from operating leases	10,272	24,263
Investing cash flow from operating leases - related party	6,800	84,750

The weighted-average remaining lease term as of December 31, 2020 was 3.03 years. The weighted-average discount rate used to determine the operating lease liability as of December 31, 2020 was 4.22%.