Item 7A. QUANTITATIVE
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Item 7A. QUANTITATIVE
QUANTITATIVE
AND QUALITATIVE
DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Financial Instrument Market Risk
We and certain of our subsidiaries hold and issue derivative contracts and financial
instruments that expose our
cash flows or earnings to changes in commodity
prices, foreign currency exchange rates
or interest rates.
We
may use financial and commodity-based derivative
contracts to manage the risks produced by changes
in the
prices of natural gas, crude oil and related products;
fluctuations in interest rates and foreign currency
exchange rates; or to capture market opportunities.
Our use of derivative instruments is governed
by an “Authority Limitations” document
approved by our Board
of Directors that prohibits the use of highly leveraged
derivatives or derivative instruments without
sufficient
liquidity.
The Authority Limitations document also establishes
the Value at Risk (VaR)
limits for the
company, and compliance with these limits is monitored daily.
The Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer, who reports to the Chief Executive Officer, monitors commodity price risk
and risks
resulting from foreign currency exchange rates and
interest rates.
The Commercial organization manages our
commercial marketing, optimizes our commodity
flows and positions, and monitors risks.
Commodity Price Risk
Our Commercial organization uses futures, forwards, swaps
and options in various markets to accomplish
the
following objectives:
●
Meet customer needs.
Consistent with our policy to generally
remain exposed to market prices, we
use swap contracts to convert fixed-price sales
contracts, which are often requested by natural
gas
consumers, to floating market prices.
●
Enable us to use market knowledge to capture opportunities
such as moving physical commodities to
more profitable locations and storing commodities
to capture seasonal or time premiums.
We may use
derivatives to optimize these activities.
We use a VaR
model to estimate the loss in fair value that
could potentially result on a single day from the
effect of adverse changes in market conditions on the derivative
financial instruments and derivative
commodity instruments we hold or issue, including
commodity purchases and sales contracts
recorded on the
balance sheet at December 31, 2019,
as derivative instruments.
Using Monte Carlo simulation, a 95 percent
confidence level and a one-day holding period, the
VaR
for those instruments issued or held for
trading
purposes or held for purposes other than trading
at December 31, 2019 and 2018,
was immaterial to our
consolidated cash flows and net income attributable
to ConocoPhillips.
Interest Rate Risk
The following table provides information
about our debt instruments that are sensitive to
changes in U.S.
interest rates.
The table presents
principal cash flows and related weighted-average
interest rates by expected
maturity dates.
Weighted-average variable rates are based on effective rates at the reporting date.
The
carrying amount of our floating-rate debt approximates
its fair value.
The fair value of the fixed-rate debt is
measured using prices available from a pricing
service that is corroborated by market
data.
Millions of Dollars Except as Indicated
Debt
Fixed
Average
Floating
Average
Rate
Interest
Rate
Interest
Expected Maturity Date
Maturity
Rate
Maturity
Rate
Year
-End 2019
2020
$
-
-
%
$
-
-
%
2021
6.24
-
-
2022
2.54
2.81
2023
7.20
-
-
2024
3.52
-
-
Remaining years
12,143
6.25
1.65
Total
$
13,188
$
Fair value
$
17,325
$
Year
-End 2018
2019
$
-
%
$
-
-
%
2020
-
-
-
-
2021
9.13
-
-
2022
2.54
3.52
2023
7.20
-
-
Remaining years
12,599
6.16
1.78
Total
$
13,188
$
Fair value
$
15,364
$
Foreign Currency Exchange Risk
We have foreign currency exchange rate risk resulting from international operations.
We do not
comprehensively hedge the exposure to currency
exchange rate changes although we
may choose to selectively
hedge certain foreign currency exchange rate exposures,
such as firm commitments for capital projects
or local
currency tax payments, dividends and cash returns from
net investments in foreign affiliates to be remitted
within the coming year, and investments in equity securities.
At December 31, 2019 and 2018, we held foreign
currency exchange forwards hedging cross-border
commercial activity and foreign currency exchange
swaps and options for purposes of mitigating
our cash-
related exposures.
Although these forwards, swaps and options
hedge exposures to fluctuations in exchange
rates, we elected not to utilize hedge accounting.
As a result, the change in the fair value of these foreign
currency exchange derivatives is recorded directly
in earnings.
At December 31, 2019,
we had outstanding foreign currency exchange
forward contracts to sell $1.35 billion
CAD at $0.748 CAD against the U.S. dollar.
At December 31, 2018, we had outstanding foreign
currency
zero-cost collars buying the right to sell $1.25 billion
CAD at $0.707
CAD and selling the right to buy $1.25
billion CAD at $0.842 CAD against the U.S. dollar.
Based on the assumed volatility in the fair value
calculation, the net fair value of these foreign currency
contracts at December 31, 2019 and
December 31,
2018, was a before-tax loss of $28 million and a before-tax
gain of $6
million, respectively.
Based on an
adverse hypothetical 10 percent change in the
December 2019 and December 2018 exchange rate, this
would
result in an additional before-tax loss of $115 million and $17 million,
respectively.
The sensitivity analysis is
based on changing one assumption while holding
all other assumptions constant, which in practice
may be
unlikely to occur, as changes in some of the assumptions may be correlated.
The gross notional and fair value of these positions
at December 31, 2019 and 2018, were as follows:
In Millions
Foreign Currency Exchange Derivatives
Notional*
Fair Value**
2019
2018
2019
2018
Sell U.S. dollar, buy British pound
USD
-
-
(5)
Sell Canadian dollar, buy U.S. dollar
CAD
1,350
1,250
(28)
Buy Canadian dollar, sell U.S. dollar
CAD
-
-
Sell British pound, buy Norwegian krone
GBP
-
-
-
Sell British pound, buy euro
GBP
-
-
-
Buy British pound, sell euro
GBP
-
-
-
*Denominated in USD, CAD and GBP.
**Denominated in USD.
For additional information about our use of derivative
instruments, see Note 14—Derivative and Financial
Instruments, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements.
Item 8.
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY
DATA
CONOCOPHILLIPS
INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Page
Report of Management ............................................................................................................................
Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting
Firm .................................................................
Consolidated Income Statement for the years ended
December 31, 2019,
2018 and 2017
....................
Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income
for the years ended
December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017
..................................................................................................
Consolidated Balance Sheet at December 31, 2019
and 2018
................................................................
Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for the years
ended December 31, 2019,
2018 and 2017
.........
Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity for
the years ended
December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017
..................................................................................................
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
............................................................................................
Supplementary Information
Oil and Gas Operations
..............................................................................................................
Selected Quarterly Financial Data
..............................................................................................
Condensed Consolidating Financial Information
.......................................................................
Report of Management
Management prepared, and is responsible for, the consolidated financial
statements and the other information
appearing in this annual report.
The consolidated financial statements present
fairly the company’s financial
position, results of operations and cash flows in
conformity with accounting principles
generally accepted in
the United States.
In preparing its consolidated financial statements,
the company includes amounts that are
based on estimates and judgments management believes
are reasonable under the circumstances.
The
company’s financial statements have been audited by Ernst & Young LLP,
an independent registered public
accounting firm appointed by the Audit and Finance
Committee of the Board of Directors and ratified
by
stockholders.
Management has made available to Ernst
& Young LLP all of the company’s financial records
and related data, as well as the minutes of stockholders’
and directors’ meetings.
Assessment of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Management is also responsible for establishing
and maintaining adequate internal control
over financial
reporting.
ConocoPhillips’ internal control system
was designed to provide reasonable assurance to
the
company’s management and directors regarding the preparation and fair
presentation of published financial
statements.
All internal control systems, no matter how
well designed, have inherent limitations.
Therefore, even those
systems determined to be effective can provide only reasonable
assurance with respect to financial statement
preparation and presentation.
Management assessed the effectiveness of the company’s internal control over financial
reporting as of
December 31, 2019.
In making this assessment, it used the criteria
set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring
Organizations of the Treadway Commission in
Internal Control—Integrated Framework (2013)
.
Based on our
assessment, we believe the company’s internal control over financial
reporting was effective as of
December 31, 2019.
Ernst & Young LLP has issued an audit report on the company’s internal control over financial reporting as of
December 31, 2019, and their report is included
herein.
/s/ Ryan M. Lance
/s/ Don E. Wallette, Jr.
Ryan M. Lance
Don E. Wallette, Jr.
Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer
Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
February 18, 2020
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting
Firm
To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of ConocoPhillips
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of ConocoPhillips
(the Company) as of
December 31, 2019 and 2018, the related consolidated
income statement, consolidated statements
of
comprehensive income, changes in equity and
cash flows for each of the three years in
the period ended
December 31, 2019, and the related notes, condensed
consolidating financial information listed in
the Index at
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