Summary
This Statement establishes a comprehensive set of disclosures for
oil and gas producing activities and replaces requirements of
several earlier Statements. The requirement to disclose the method
of accounting for costs incurred in oil and gas producing
activities and the manner of disposing of related capitalized costs
is continued for both publicly traded and other enterprises. None
of the other requirements in this Statement is extended to
enterprises that are not publicly traded, thereby eliminating
existing requirements for them to disclose information about proved
oil and gas reserve quantities, capitalized costs, and costs
incurred.
Publicly traded enterprises with significant oil and gas activities, when presenting a complete set of annual financial statements, are to disclose the following as supplementary information, but not as a part of the financial statements:
This Statement eliminates a previous requirement to disclose capitalized costs in complete sets of interim financial statements.
In addition, this Statement permits historical
cost/constant dollar measures to be used for oil and gas mineral
interests when presenting current cost information under the
provisions of FASB Statement No. 39, Financial Reporting and
Changing Prices: Specialized Assets-Mining and Oil and
Gas.