Balance Sheet: Assets
Quarterly Data
The balance sheet provides creditors, investors, and analysts with information on company resources (assets) and its sources of capital (its equity and liabilities). It normally also provides information about the future earnings capacity of a company assets as well as an indication of cash flows that may come from receivables and inventories.
Assets are resources controlled by the company as a result of past events and from which future economic benefits are expected to flow to the entity.
Assets: Selected Items
Current Assets: Selected Items
Based on: 10-Q (reporting date: 2023-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2023-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2023-03-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2022-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-03-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2021-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-03-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2020-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-03-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2019-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-03-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2018-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-03-31).
Total assets exhibited a cyclical trajectory, characterized by a significant contraction between 2018 and 2020, followed by a robust recovery and expansion phase from 2021 through September 2023. Total assets decreased from a peak of 29,316 million USD in March 2018 to a low of 9,912 million USD by December 2020, before climbing back to 24,241 million USD by the end of the period.
- Liquidity and Current Asset Volatility
- Current assets were marked by extreme volatility, primarily driven by a temporary spike in June 2018 to 13,820 million USD, largely attributable to 10,764 million USD in assets associated with discontinued operations. Excluding these anomalies, current assets generally fluctuated between 2,600 million USD and 6,300 million USD. Cash and cash equivalents showed a declining trend in the most recent period, falling from a peak of 3,457 million USD in June 2022 to 761 million USD in September 2023, suggesting increased capital deployment or liquidity outflows.
- Core Operational Asset Expansion
- Oil and gas property and equipment, net, represents the primary driver of the balance sheet. This item saw a dramatic decline from 13,475 million USD in March 2018 to 4,436 million USD in December 2020. However, a substantial increase occurred in March 2021, where the value jumped to 13,826 million USD. Following this inflection point, there has been a consistent upward trend, reaching 17,563 million USD by September 2023, indicating a sustained investment in production capacity and resource acquisition.
- Non-Current Asset Shifts
- Other property and equipment, net, experienced a sharp reduction from 7,908 million USD in March 2018 to approximately 1,000 million USD by 2019, subsequently stabilizing around 1,468 million USD. Goodwill followed a similar downward trajectory, decreasing from 2,383 million USD to a steady state of 753 million USD from March 2020 onward. Conversely, long-term investments, which were negligible prior to 2021, grew steadily to reach 671 million USD by September 2023.
- Impact of Discontinued Operations
- The influence of discontinued operations was most prominent between June 2018 and June 2020. The presence of these assets created temporary inflation of the total asset base, particularly in mid-2018. The subsequent removal of these assets from the balance sheet coincided with the period of lowest total asset valuation before the strategic pivot and growth observed in 2021.
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