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Divestitures
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
Business Combinations [Abstract]  
Divestitures

Note 6 – Divestitures

On July 31, 2014, we completed the sale of certain of our non-core properties in the GOM conventional shelf for cash consideration of approximately $177.6 million, after giving effect to preliminary purchase price adjustments. All of the proceeds from this sale were deposited with a Qualified Intermediary (under the terms of a Qualified Trust Agreement and Exchange Agreement) for potential reinvestment in like-kind replacement property as defined under Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code and were included in our balance sheet as restricted cash at December 31, 2014. Compliance with provisions under the Qualified Trust Agreement and Exchange Agreement provided for deferral of taxable gain on these sales proceeds. We identified qualified replacement properties and had until January 27, 2015 to close on an acquisition of such properties in order to achieve deferral of our taxable gain. We did not close on such a transaction by January 27, 2015, and the funds were released from restrictions and reclassified to cash and cash equivalents at such date.