Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Asset Retirement Obligations

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Asset Retirement Obligations
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017
Asset Retirement Obligation Disclosure [Abstract]  
Asset Retirement Obligations

4.  Asset Retirement Obligations

Our ARO primarily represents the estimated present value of the amount we will incur to plug, abandon and remediate our producing properties at the end of their productive lives.  

A summary of the changes to our ARO is as follows (in thousands):  

 

Balance, December 31, 2016

$

334,438

 

Liabilities settled

 

(14,499

)

Accretion of discount

 

4,201

 

Revisions of estimated liabilities (1)

 

2,660

 

Balance, March 31, 2017

 

326,800

 

Less current portion

 

66,150

 

Long-term

$

260,650

 

 

 

(1)

Revisions were primarily related to changes in scope of work at both our West Cameron fields and Eugene Island fields.