Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities

6 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2019

Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities

I. Derivative instruments and hedging activities

Ferrellgas is exposed to certain market risks related to its ongoing business operations. These risks include exposure to changing commodity prices as well as fluctuations in interest rates. Ferrellgas utilizes derivative instruments to manage its exposure to fluctuations in commodity prices. Of these, the propane commodity derivative instruments are designated as cash flow hedges. Prior to the sale of Bridger Energy, LLC in January 2018, all other commodity derivative instruments were neither qualified nor were designated as cash flow hedges, therefore, changes in their fair value were recorded currently in earnings. Ferrellgas also periodically utilizes derivative instruments to manage its exposure to fluctuations in interest rates.

Derivative instruments and hedging activity

During the six months ended January 31, 2019 and 2018, Ferrellgas did not recognize any gain or loss in earnings related to hedge ineffectiveness and did not exclude any component of financial derivative contract gains or losses from the assessment of hedge effectiveness related to commodity cash flow hedges.

The following tables provide a summary of the fair value of derivatives in Ferrellgas’ condensed consolidated balance sheets as of January 31, 2019 and July 31, 2018:


	January 31, 2019
	Asset Derivatives			Liability Derivatives
Derivative Instrument	Location	Fair value		Location	Fair value
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments
Commodity derivatives-propane	Prepaid expenses and other current assets	$	5,408	Other current liabilities	$	13,859
Commodity derivatives-propane	Other assets, net		440	Other liabilities		1,289
	Total	$	5,848	Total	$	15,148


	July 31, 2018
	Asset Derivatives			Liability Derivatives
Derivative Instrument	Location	Fair value		Location	Fair value
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments
Commodity derivatives-propane	Prepaid expenses and other current assets	$	17,123	Other current liabilities	$	1,832
Commodity derivatives-propane	Other assets, net		5,347	Other liabilities		78
	Total	$	22,470	Total	$	1,910

Ferrellgas’ exchange traded commodity derivative contracts require cash margin deposit as collateral for contracts that are in a negative mark-to-market position. These cash margin deposits will be returned if mark-to-market conditions improve or will be applied against cash settlement when the contracts are settled. Liabilities represent cash margin deposits received by Ferrellgas for contracts that are in a positive mark-to-market position. The following tables provide a summary of cash margin balances as of January 31, 2019 and July 31, 2018, respectively:


	January 31, 2019
	Assets			Liabilities
Description	Location	Amount		Location	Amount
Margin Balances	Prepaid expense and other current assets	$	10,977	Other current liabilities	$	1,734
	Other assets, net		2,617	Other liabilities		3
		$	13,594		$	1,737


	July 31, 2018
	Assets			Liabilities
Description	Location	Amount		Location	Amount
Margin Balances	Prepaid expense and other current assets	$	2,851	Other current liabilities	$	12,308
	Other assets, net		927	Other liabilities		4,235
		$	3,778		$	16,543

The following table provides a summary of the effect on Ferrellgas’ condensed consolidated statements of operations for the three and six months ended January 31, 2019 and 2018 due to derivatives that were designated as fair value hedging instruments:


						Amount of Interest Expense
		Amount of Gain Recognized on				Recognized on Fixed-Rated Debt
	Location of Gain	Derivative				(Related Hedged Item)
	Recognized on	For the three months ended January 31,				For the three months ended January 31,
Derivative Instrument	Derivative	2019		2018		2019		2018
Interest rate swap agreements	Interest expense	$	—	$	88	$	—	$	(2,275)


						Amount of Interest Expense
		Amount of Gain Recognized on				Recognized on Fixed-Rated Debt
	Location of Amounts	Derivative				(Related Hedged Item)
	Recognized on	For the six months ended January 31,				For the six months ended January 31,
Derivative Instrument	Derivative	2019		2018		2019		2018
Interest rate swap agreements	Interest expense	$	—	$	226	$	—	$	(4,550)

The following tables provide a summary of the effect on Ferrellgas’ condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) for the three and six months ended January 31, 2019 and 2018 due to derivatives designated as cash flow hedging instruments:


	For the three months ended January 31, 2019
				Amount of Gain (Loss)
	Amount of Gain		Location of Gain (Loss)	Reclassified from
	(Loss) Recognized in		Reclassified from	AOCI into Income
Derivative Instrument	AOCI		AOCI into Income	Effective portion		Ineffective portion
Commodity derivatives	$	(21,080)	Cost of product sold- propane and other gas liquids sales	$	3,807	$	—
	$	(21,080)		$	3,807	$	—


	For the three months ended January 31, 2018
				Amount of Gain (Loss)
	Amount of Gain (Loss)		Location of Gain (Loss)	Reclassified from
	Recognized in		Reclassified from	AOCI into Income
Derivative Instrument	AOCI		AOCI into Income	Effective portion		Ineffective portion
Commodity derivatives	$	960	Cost of sales-propane and other gas liquids sales	$	9,886	$	—
Interest rate swap agreements		112	Interest expense		(143)		—
	$	1,072		$	9,743	$	—


	For the six months ended January 31, 2019
				Amount of Gain (Loss)
	Amount of Gain (Loss)		Location of Gain (Loss)	Reclassified from
	Recognized in		Reclassified from	AOCI into Income
Derivative Instrument	AOCI		AOCI into Income	Effective portion		Ineffective portion
Commodity derivatives	$	(29,234)	Cost of sales-propane and other gas liquids sales	$	(626)	$	—
	$	(29,234)		$	(626)	$	—


	For the six months ended January 31, 2018
				Amount of Gain (Loss)
	Amount of Gain (Loss)		Location of Gain (Loss)	Reclassified from
	Recognized in		Reclassified from	AOCI into Income
Derivative Instrument	AOCI		AOCI into Income	Effective portion		Ineffective portion
Commodity derivatives	$	23,283	Cost of product sold- propane and other gas liquids sales	$	14,018	$	—
Interest rate swap agreements		238	Interest expense		(326)		—
	$	23,521		$	13,692	$	—

The following table provides a summary of the effect on Ferrellgas’ condensed consolidated statements of operations for the three and six months ended January 31, 2019 and 2018 due to the change in fair value of derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:


	For the three months ended January 31, 2019
	Amount of Gain (Loss)		Location of Gain (Loss)
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments	Recognized in Income		Reclassified in Income
Commodity derivatives - crude oil	$	—	Cost of sales - midstream operations


	For the three months ended January 31, 2018
	Amount of Gain (Loss)		Location of Gain (Loss)
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments	Recognized in Income		Reclassified in Income
Commodity derivatives - crude oil	$	(2,080)	Cost of sales - midstream operations


	For the six months ended January 31, 2019
	Amount of Gain (Loss)		Location of Gain (Loss)
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments	Recognized in Income		Reclassified in Income
Commodity derivatives - crude oil	$	—	Cost of sales - midstream operations


	For the six months ended January 31, 2018
	Amount of Gain (Loss)		Location of Gain (Loss)
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments	Recognized in Income		Reclassified in Income
Commodity derivatives - crude oil	$	(3,470)	Cost of sales - midstream operations

The changes in derivatives included in AOCI for the six months ended January 31, 2019 and 2018 were as follows:


	For the six months ended January 31,
Gains and losses on derivatives included in AOCI	2019		2018
Beginning balance	$	20,560	$	14,648
Change in value of risk management commodity derivatives		(29,234)		23,283
Reclassification of gains on commodity hedges to cost of sales - propane and other gas liquids sales, net		(626)		(14,018)
Change in value of risk management interest rate derivatives		—		238
Reclassification of losses on interest rate hedges to interest expense		—		326
Ending balance	$	(9,300)	$	24,477

Ferrellgas expects to reclassify net losses related to the risk management commodity derivatives of approximately $8.5 million to earnings during the next 12 months. These net losses are expected to be offset by increased margins on propane sales commitments Ferrellgas has with its customers that qualify for the normal purchase normal sales exception.

During the six months ended January 31, 2019 and 2018, Ferrellgas had no reclassifications to operations resulting from the discontinuance of any cash flow hedges arising from the probability of the original forecasted transactions not occurring within the originally specified period of time defined within the hedging relationship.

As of January 31, 2019, Ferrellgas had financial derivative contracts covering 3.9 million barrels of propane that were entered into as cash flow hedges of forward and forecasted purchases of propane.

Derivative financial instruments credit risk

Ferrellgas is exposed to credit loss in the event of nonperformance by counterparties to derivative financial and commodity instruments. Ferrellgas’ counterparties principally consist of major energy companies and major U.S. financial institutions. Ferrellgas maintains credit policies with regard to its counterparties that it believes reduces its overall credit risk. These policies include evaluating and monitoring its counterparties’ financial condition, including their credit ratings, and entering into agreements with counterparties that govern credit limits. Certain of these agreements call for the posting of collateral by the counterparty or by Ferrellgas in the forms of letters of credit, parent guarantees or cash. Ferrellgas has concentrations of credit risk associated with derivative financial instruments held by certain derivative financial instrument counterparties. If these counterparties that make up the concentration failed to perform according to the terms of their contracts at January 31, 2019, the maximum amount of loss due to credit risk that Ferrellgas would incur is $0.5 million, which is based upon the gross fair values of the derivative financial instruments.

From time to time Ferrellgas enters into derivative contracts that have credit-risk-related contingent features which dictate credit limits based upon Ferrellgas’ debt rating. There were no open derivative contracts with credit-risk-related contingent features as of January 31, 2019.

Ferrellgas, L.P. [Member]

Derivative [Line Items]

Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities

I. Derivative instruments and hedging activities

Ferrellgas, L.P. is exposed to certain market risks related to its ongoing business operations. These risks include exposure to changing commodity prices as well as fluctuations in interest rates. Ferrellgas, L.P. utilizes derivative instruments to manage its exposure to fluctuations in commodity prices. Of these, the propane commodity derivative instruments are designated as cash flow hedges. Prior to the sale of Bridger Energy, LLC in January 2018, all other commodity derivative instruments were neither qualified nor were designated as cash flow hedges, therefore, changes in their fair value were recorded currently in earnings. Ferrellgas, L.P. also periodically utilizes derivative instruments to manage its exposure to fluctuations in interest rates.

Derivative instruments and hedging activity

During the six months ended January 31, 2019 and 2018, Ferrellgas, L.P. did not recognize any gain or loss in earnings related to hedge ineffectiveness and did not exclude any component of financial derivative contract gains or losses from the assessment of hedge effectiveness related to commodity cash flow hedges.

The following tables provide a summary of the fair value of derivatives in Ferrellgas, L.P.’s condensed consolidated balance sheets as of January 31, 2019 and July 31, 2018:


	January 31, 2019
	Asset Derivatives			Liability Derivatives
Derivative Instrument	Location	Fair value		Location	Fair value
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments
Commodity derivatives-propane	Prepaid expenses and other current assets	$	5,408	Other current liabilities	$	13,859
Commodity derivatives-propane	Other assets, net		440	Other liabilities		1,289
	Total	$	5,848	Total	$	15,148


	July 31, 2018
	Asset Derivatives			Liability Derivatives
Derivative Instrument	Location	Fair value		Location	Fair value
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments
Commodity derivatives-propane	Prepaid expenses and other current assets	$	17,123	Other current liabilities	$	1,832
Commodity derivatives-propane	Other assets, net		5,347	Other liabilities		78
	Total	$	22,470	Total	$	1,910

Ferrellgas, L.P.’s exchange traded commodity derivative contracts require cash margin deposit as collateral for contracts that are in a negative mark-to-market position. These cash margin deposits will be returned if mark-to-market conditions improve or will be applied against cash settlement when the contracts are settled. Liabilities represent cash margin deposits received by Ferrellgas, L.P. for contracts that are in a positive mark-to-market position. The following tables provide a summary of cash margin balances as of January 31, 2019 and July 31, 2018, respectively:


	January 31, 2019
	Assets			Liabilities
Description	Location	Amount		Location	Amount
Margin Balances	Prepaid expense and other current assets	$	10,977	Other current liabilities	$	1,734
	Other assets, net		2,617	Other liabilities		3
		$	13,594		$	1,737


	July 31, 2018
	Assets			Liabilities
Description	Location	Amount		Location	Amount
Margin Balances	Prepaid expense and other current assets	$	2,851	Other current liabilities	$	12,308
	Other assets, net		927	Other liabilities		4,235
		$	3,778		$	16,543

The following table provides a summary of the effect on Ferrellgas, L.P.’s condensed consolidated statements of operations for the three and six months ended January 31, 2019 and 2018 due to derivatives that were designated as fair value hedging instruments:


						Amount of Interest Expense
	Location of Amounts	Amount of Gain Recognized on				Recognized on Fixed-Rated Debt
	Recognized on	Derivative				(Related Hedged Item)
Derivative Instrument	Derivative	For the three months ended January 31,				For the three months ended January 31,
		2019		2018		2019		2018
Interest rate swap agreements	Interest expense	$	—	$	88	$	—	$	(2,275)


						Amount of Interest Expense
	Location of Gain	Amount of Gain Recognized on				Recognized on Fixed-Rated Debt
	Recognized on	Derivative				(Related Hedged Item)
Derivative Instrument	Derivative	For the six months ended January 31,				For the six months ended January 31,
		2019		2018		2019		2018
Interest rate swap agreements	Interest expense	$	—	$	226	$	—	$	(4,550)

The following tables provide a summary of the effect on Ferrellgas, L.P.’s condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) for the three and six months ended January 31, 2019 and 2018 due to derivatives designated as cash flow hedging instruments:


	For the three months ended January 31, 2019
				Amount of Gain (Loss)
			Location of Gain (Loss)	Reclassified from
	Amount of Gain (Loss)		Reclassified from AOCI	AOCI into Income
Derivative Instrument	Recognized in AOCI		into Income	Effective portion		Ineffective portion
Commodity derivatives	$	(21,080)	Cost of product sold- propane and other gas liquids sales	$	3,807	$	—
	$	(21,080)		$	3,807	$	—


	For the three months ended January 31, 2018
				Amount of Gain (Loss)
			Location of Gain (Loss)	Reclassified from
	Amount of Gain (Loss)		Reclassified from AOCI	AOCI into Income
Derivative Instrument	Recognized in AOCI		into Income	Effective portion		Ineffective portion
Commodity derivatives	$	960	Cost of sales-propane and other gas liquids sales	$	9,886	$	—
Interest rate swap agreements		112	Interest expense		(143)		—
	$	1,072		$	9,743	$	—


	For the six months ended January 31, 2019
				Amount of Gain (Loss)
			Location of Gain (Loss)	Reclassified from
	Amount of Gain (Loss)		Reclassified from AOCI	AOCI into Income
Derivative Instrument	Recognized in AOCI		into Income	Effective portion		Ineffective portion
Commodity derivatives	$	(29,234)	Cost of sales-propane and other gas liquids sales	$	(626)	$	—
	$	(29,234)		$	(626)	$	—


	For the six months ended January 31, 2018
				Amount of Gain (Loss)
			Location of Gain (Loss)	Reclassified from
	Amount of Gain (Loss)		Reclassified from AOCI	AOCI into Income
Derivative Instrument	Recognized in AOCI		into Income	Effective portion		Ineffective portion
Commodity derivatives	$	23,283	Cost of product sold- propane and other gas liquids sales	$	14,018	$	—
Interest rate swap agreements		238	Interest expense		(326)		—
	$	23,521		$	13,692	$	—

The following table provides a summary of the effect on Ferrellgas, L.P.’s condensed consolidated statements of operations for the three and six months ended January 31, 2019 and 2018 due to the change in fair value of derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:


	For the three months ended January 31, 2019
	Amount of Gain (Loss)		Location of Gain (Loss)
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments	Recognized in Income		Reclassified in Income
Commodity derivatives - crude oil	$	—	Cost of sales - midstream operations


	For the three months ended January 31, 2018
	Amount of Gain (Loss)		Location of Gain (Loss)
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments	Recognized in Income		Reclassified in Income
Commodity derivatives - crude oil	$	(2,080)	Cost of sales - midstream operations


	For the six months ended January 31, 2019
	Amount of Gain (Loss)		Location of Gain (Loss)
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments	Recognized in Income		Reclassified in Income
Commodity derivatives - crude oil	$	—	Cost of sales - midstream operations


	For the six months ended January 31, 2018
	Amount of Gain (Loss)		Location of Gain (Loss)
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments	Recognized in Income		Reclassified in Income
Commodity derivatives - crude oil	$	(3,470)	Cost of sales - midstream operations

The changes in derivatives included in AOCI for the six months ended January 31, 2019 and 2018 were as follows:


	For the six months ended January 31,
Gains and losses on derivatives included in AOCI	2019		2018
Beginning balance	$	20,560	$	14,648
Change in value of risk management commodity derivatives		(29,234)		23,283
Reclassification of gains on commodity hedges to cost of sales - propane and other gas liquids sales, net		(626)		(14,018)
Change in value of risk management interest rate derivatives		—		238
Reclassification of losses on interest rate hedges to interest expense		—		326
Ending balance	$	(9,300)	$	24,477

Ferrellgas, L.P. expects to reclassify net losses related to the risk management commodity derivatives of approximately $8.5 million to earnings during the next 12 months. These net losses are expected to be offset by increased margins on propane sales commitments Ferrellgas, L.P. has with its customers that qualify for the normal purchase normal sales exception.

During the six months ended January 31, 2019 and 2018, Ferrellgas, L.P. had no reclassifications to operations resulting from the discontinuance of any cash flow hedges arising from the probability of the original forecasted transactions not occurring within the originally specified period of time defined within the hedging relationship.

As of January 31, 2019, Ferrellgas, L.P. had financial derivative contracts covering 3.9 million barrels of propane that were entered into as cash flow hedges of forward and forecasted purchases of propane.

Derivative financial instruments credit risk

Ferrellgas, L.P. is exposed to credit loss in the event of nonperformance by counterparties to derivative financial and commodity instruments. Ferrellgas, L.P.’s counterparties principally consist of major energy companies and major U.S. financial institutions. Ferrellgas, L.P. maintains credit policies with regard to its counterparties that it believes reduces its overall credit risk. These policies include evaluating and monitoring its counterparties’ financial condition, including their credit ratings, and entering into agreements with counterparties that govern credit limits. Certain of these agreements call for the posting of collateral by the counterparty or by Ferrellgas, L.P. in the forms of letters of credit, parent guarantees or cash. Ferrellgas, L.P. has concentrations of credit risk associated with derivative financial instruments held by certain derivative financial instrument counterparties. If these counterparties that make up the concentration failed to perform according to the terms of their contracts at January 31, 2019, the maximum amount of loss due to credit risk that Ferrellgas, L.P. would incur is $0.5 million, which is based upon the gross fair values of the derivative financial instruments.

From time to time Ferrellgas, L.P. enters into derivative contracts that have credit-risk-related contingent features which dictate credit limits based upon Ferrellgas, L.P.’s debt rating. There were no open derivative contracts with credit-risk-related contingent features as of January 31, 2019.