Summary of Significant Accounting Policies | 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Significant estimates inherent in the Registrant’s financial statements include the estimate of oil and gas reserves and future abandonment costs. Changes in oil and gas prices and the changes in production estimates could have a significant effect on reserve estimates. The reserve estimates directly impact the computation of depreciation, depletion, and amortization, asset retirement obligation, and the ceiling test for the Registrant’s oil and gas properties. Full Cost Accounting The Partnership follows the full-cost method of accounting for its oil and gas activities. Under the full-cost method, all productive and non-productive costs incurred in the acquisition, exploration and development of oil and gas properties are capitalized. Depreciation, depletion and amortization of oil and gas properties subject to amortization is computed on the units-of-production method based on the proved reserves underlying the oil and gas properties. At December 31, 2017 and 2016 all capitalized costs were subject to amortization. Proceeds from the sale or other disposition of properties are credited to the full cost pool. Gains and losses are not recognized unless such adjustments would significantly alter the relationship between capitalized costs and the proved oil and gas reserves. Capitalized costs are subject to a quarterly ceiling test that limits such costs to the aggregate of the present value of estimated future net cash flows of proved reserves, computed using the 12-month unweighted average of first-day-of the-month oil and gas prices, discounted at 10%, and the lower of cost or fair value of unproved properties. If unamortized costs capitalized exceed the ceiling, the excess is charged to expense in the period the excess occurs. There were cost ceiling write-downs totaling $1,617,571 for the year ended December 31, 2016. There were no cost ceiling write-downs for the year ended December 31, 2017. Subsequent Events The Partnership has evaluated events and transactions for potential recognition or disclosure through the date the financial statements were issued. Recent Accounting Developments In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2014-09, a comprehensive new revenue recognition standard that will supersede nearly all existing revenue recognition guidance. The standard outlines a single comprehensive model for revenue recognition based on the core principle that an entity will recognize revenue when promised goods or services are transferred to clients, in an amount that reflects the consideration to which an entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. We have evaluated the impact of the ASU on our accounting policies, internal controls, and financial statements and related disclosures. We have non-operated working interests in oil and gas wells only and receive monthly net revenue checks from the operator of the oil and gas wells in which we have working interests. We have reviewed our partnership, joint operating and marketing agreements as they relate to our non-operated working interests and this ASU. The ASU includes provisions regarding future revenues and expenses under a gross-versus-net presentation as it relates to principal vs agent relationship. We have evaluated the impact on the presentation of our future revenues and expenses under this gross-versus-net presentation guidance. Based upon our assessments, the ASU will not have any effect on the timing of revenue recognition or our financial position. Cash The Partnership maintains all its cash in one financial institution. At various times throughout the year, the cash amount may be in excess of the amount insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Fair Value of Financial Instruments The FASB has issued guidance on determining the estimated fair value for financial instruments. This disclosure states that the fair value of financial instruments is determined at discrete points in time based on relevant market information. Such estimates involve uncertainties and cannot be determined with precision. The estimated fair value of cash, accounts receivable and accounts payable approximates their carrying value due to their short-term nature. Asset Retirement Obligations The Partnership has recognized an estimated liability for future plugging and abandonment costs. A liability for the estimated fair value of the future plugging and abandonment costs is recorded with a corresponding increase in the full cost pool at the time a new well is drilled. Depreciation expense associated with estimated plugging and abandonment costs is recognized in accordance with the full cost methodology. The Partnership estimates a liability for plugging and abandonment costs based on historical experience and estimated well life. The liability is discounted using the credit-adjusted risk-free rate. Revisions to the liability could occur due to changes in well plugging and abandonment costs or well useful lives, or if federal or state regulators enact new well restoration requirements. The Partnership recognizes accretion expense in connection with the discounted liability over the remaining life of the well. A reconciliation of the Partnership’s liability for well plugging and abandonment costs for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 is as follows: 2017 2016 Balance, beginning of period $ 834,771 $ 799,280 Liabilities incurred 2,777 2,432 Liabilities reduced due to settlements and plugging and abandonments (9,099 ) (965 ) Accretion expense 35,305 34,024 Balance, end of period $ 863,754 $ 834,771 Oil and Gas Sales The Partnership’s oil and condensate production is sold and revenue recognized at or near the Partnership’s wells under short-term purchase contracts at prevailing prices in accordance with arrangements which are customary in the oil industry. Sales of gas applicable to the Partnership’s interest are recorded as revenue when the gas is metered and title transferred pursuant to the gas sales contracts covering the Partnership’s interest in gas reserves. The Partnership uses the sales method to recognize oil and gas revenue whereby revenue is recognized for the amount of production taken regardless of the amount for which the Partnership is entitled based on its working interest ownership. As of December 31, 2017 and 2016, no material gas imbalances between the Partnership and other working interest owners existed. Substantially all of the Partnership’s accounts receivable result from oil and gas sales to third parties in the oil and gas industry. This concentration of customers may impact the Partnership’s overall credit risk in that these entities may be similarly affected by changes in economic and other conditions. Historically, the Partnership has not experienced significant credit losses on such receivables. No bad debt expense was recorded in 2017 or 2016. The Partnership cannot ensure that such losses will not be realized in the future. Income Taxes The Partnership is treated as a partnership for income tax purposes and, as a result, income of the Partnership is reported on the tax returns of the partners and no recognition is given to income taxes in the financial statements. The Partnership’s financial reporting basis of its net assets exceeded the tax basis of its net assets by $5,095,013 and $5,307,711 at December 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively. The Partnership accounts for uncertainty in income taxes in accordance with applicable accounting guidance and recognizes the effects of those positions only if they are more likely than not of being sustained. As no liability had been recognized as of December 31, 2017 or 2016, the Partnership did not accrue for any interest or penalties. |