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Asset Retirement Obligations |
Note 12 - Asset Retirement Obligations
The table below summarizes the activity for the Company’s asset retirement obligations:
Certain of the Company’s operating agreements require that assets be restricted for future abandonment obligations. Amounts recorded on the Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 2015 and 2014 as long-term restricted investments were $3,309 and $3,810, respectively. These assets, which primarily include short-term U.S. Government securities, are held in abandonment trusts dedicated to pay future abandonment costs for several of the Company’s oil and natural gas properties.
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