The Company’s management uses the non-GAAP financial measures: as measures of operating performance, because they exclude the impact of items not directly resulting from the Company’s core operations; for planning purposes, including the preparation of the Company’s annual operating budget; to allocate resources to enhance the financial performance of the Company’s business; to evaluate the effectiveness of the Company’s business strategies; and in communications with the Company’s board of directors concerning the Company’s financial performance. The Company understands that, although adjusted EBITDA and other non-GAAP financial measures are frequently used by investors and securities analysts in their evaluations of companies, these measures have limitations as an analytical tool, and you should not consider them in isolation or as substitutes for analysis of the Company’s results of operations as reported under GAAP. Some of these limitations are: that these measures do not reflect the Company’s capital expenditures or future requirements for capital expenditures or other contractual commitments; that these measures do not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, the Company’s working capital needs; that these measures do not reflect interest expense or interest income; that these measures do not reflect cash requirements for income taxes; that, although depreciation and amortization are non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated or amortized will often have to be replaced in the future, and these measures do not reflect any cash requirements for these replacements; and that other companies in the Company’s industry may calculate these measures differently than the Company does, limiting their usefulness as comparative measures. (2) This expense consists of the recorded fair value of the shares of Class A common stock for which the Company’s right to repurchase has lapsed pursuant to the terms of the May 2010 agreement under which they were issued to Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., a contra-revenue component of the Company’s total operating revenues. The Company does not believe these non-cash expenses are reflective of ongoing operating results. Our right to repurchase any shares issued to Walmart fully lapsed during the three months ended June 30, 2015. As a result, we no longer recognize stock-based retailer incentive compensation in future periods.
Non-GAAP measure Closest equivalent US GAAP measure Adjustments to reconcile to primary financial statements prepared under US GAAP Rationale for adjustments Performance Measures Total Adjusted EBITDA Net (loss)/income +/- Net financial expense + Other non-operating expenses +/- Income taxes +/- Equity in net (losses) income of affiliates +/- Golar Partners’ share of Hilli LLC EBITDA (FLNG Adjusted EBITDA) + Depreciation and amortization + Amount invoiced under sales-type lease - Increases the comparability of total business performance from period to period and against the performance of other companies by excluding the results of our equity investments, including our share of FLNG EBITDA, removing the impact of the change in lease accounting, and removing the impact of depreciation, financing and taxation policies. - Consistent with management’s own evaluation of business performance Annualized Adjusted EBITDA Net (loss)/income The Total Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter (defined above) multiplied by four. - Same as Total Adjusted EBITDA. - Enables investors, management and other users of our financial information to assess our year over year performance and operating trends on a more comparable basis as it includes a full year of FLNG EBITDA. Adjusted Operating Revenues Total Operating revenues +Amount invoiced under sales-type lease - Enables comparability of Golar Freeze charter with the rest of our business as the income from the sales-type lease is recognized as interest income and therefore does not appear in Total Operating Revenues. Average daily TCE Total Operating revenues - Voyage and commission expenses The above total is then divided by calendar days less scheduled off-hire days. - Measure of the average daily net revenue performance of a vessel. - Standard shipping industry performance measure used primarily to compare period-to-period changes in the vessel’s net revenue performance despite changes in the mix of charter types (i.e. spot charters, time charters and bareboat charters) under which the vessel may be employed between the periods. - Assists management in making decisions regarding the deployment and utilization of its fleet and in evaluating financial performance.
Total operating revenues. The $276.8 million increase in total operating revenues was mainly a result of a 51% increase in natural gas, oil and NGL production from 201.3 Bcfe in 2015 to 304.4 Bcfe in 2016. During 2016, we turned 70 gross (63 net) wells into sales, of which 14 gross (14 net) wells were acquired in the Vantage Acquisition. The increase in operating revenues was slightly offset by a decrease in realized prices. Our realized price in 2016 was $2.14 per Mcf compared to $2.21 per Mcf in 2015, in each case before the effect of hedges. Operating revenues were also positively impacted by a $51.9 million, or 105%, increase in gathering, compression and water service revenues year-over-year. This increase primarily relates to an increase in third-party volumes and revenues on our gathering contracts. In addition, post-acquisition revenue associated with the Vantage Acquisition was $51.6 million for the period from October19, 2016 through December31, 2016.
Total operating revenues. The $111.2 million increase in total operating revenues was mainly a result of an increase in natural gas, oil and NGL production in 2015 compared to 2014. The increase in production was a result of increased drilling and completion activity in 2015, mainly in Washington County, Pennsylvania and Belmont County, Ohio. The impact of increased production volumes on operating revenues was offset by a decrease in realized prices. Our realized price in 2015 was $2.21 per Mcf compared to $3.65 per Mcf in 2014, in each case before the effect of hedges. Additionally, operating revenues were positively impacted by a $43.7 million increase in gathering, compression and water service revenues year-over-year. This increase primarily relates to increased third-party volumes and revenues on new gathering contracts. The increase in operating revenues for 2015 were offset by a $22.8million decrease year-over-year in firm transportation sales, net, from the sale of unutilized capacity as we further utilize our existing contracts for our own operated production.
Total operating revenues. The $206.9 million increase in natural gas, oil and NGL sales was mainly a result of an increase in production in 2016 compared to 2015, as discussed above. In addition, post-acquisition revenue associated with the Vantage Acquisition was $51.6 million for the period from October19, 2016 through December31, 2016. The increase in operating revenues was slightly offset by a decrease in realized prices. Our realized price in 2016 was $2.14 per Mcf compared to $2.21 per Mcf in 2015, in each case before the effect of hedges. Additionally, the increase in other revenue of approximately $18.0 million was primarily driven by our natural gas marketing activities.
Total operating revenues. The $36.6 million increase in total operating revenues was mainly the result of a 187% period over period increase in affiliate gathering volumes between the Exploration and Production segment and the Rice Midstream Holdings segment, as well as an increase in third-party gathering volumes, which include revenues associated with the contracts for Strike Force Midstream.
Total operating revenues. The $26.5 million increase in total operating revenues year-over-year was mainly the result of an increase in volumes associated with the gathering contracts between the Exploration and Production segment and Rice Midstream Holdings segment (that were not in place for substantially all of 2014).
Total operating revenues. Operating revenues increased from $114.5 million for the year ended December31, 2015 to $201.6 million for the year ended December31, 2016, an increase of $87.2 million. The increase in operating revenues primarily relates to increased gathering and compression revenues associated with a 52% and 794% increase in period over period gathering and compression throughput, respectively. In addition, the increase relates to a $32.3 million increase in water services revenues due to a 61% increase in fresh water distribution volumes from 777 MMgal in 2015 to 1,253 MMgal in 2016.
Total operating revenues. The $108.0 million increase in total operating revenues year-over-year was mainly the result of the gathering and water service contracts between the Exploration and Production segment and the Rice Midstream Partners segment (that were not in place for substantially all of 2014) as well as an increase in volumes associated with existing third-party gathering contracts.
Total operating revenues. The increase in total operating revenues was the result of a 77% increase in natural gas production from 68.7 Bcfe in the second quarter of 2016 compared to 121.9 Bcfe in the second quarter of 2017. During the three months ended June30, 2017, we turned 30 gross (26 net) wells into sales, bringing our total producing well count to 431 gross (329 net). Also contributing to the increase in operating revenues was an increase in our period-over-period realized price. Our realized price for the three months ended June30, 2017 was $2.83 per Mcf compared to $1.77 for the three months ended June30, 2016, in each case before the effect of hedges. Operating revenues were also positively impacted by a 60% increase in gathering, compression and water services revenues period-over-period. In addition, post-acquisition revenue associated with the Vantage Acquisition was $106.0 million for the three months ended June30, 2017.
Total operating revenues. The $496.2 million, or 168% increase in total operating revenues period-over-period was mainly a result of an increase in natural gas production from 129.7 Bcfe for the six months ended June30, 2016 to 235.1 Bcfe for the six months ended June30, 2017. Also contributing to the increase in operating revenues was an increase in our period-over-period realized price. Our realized price for the six months ended June30, 2017 was $2.96 per Mcf compared to $1.79 per Mcf for the six months ended June30, 2016, in each case before the effect of hedges. Operating revenues were also positively impacted by a 42% increase in gathering, compression and water service revenues period-over-period. In addition, post-acquisition revenue associated with the Vantage Acquisition was $201.9 million for the six months ended June30, 2017.
Total operating revenues. Operating revenues increased from $11.9 million for the three months ended June30, 2016 to $31.9 million for the three months ended June30, 2017, an increase of 169%. The increase in total operating revenues was mainly the result of an increase in affiliate gathering and compression volumes between the Exploration and Production segment and the Rice Midstream Holdings segment, as well as an increase in third-party gathering volumes.
Total operating revenues. Operating revenues increased from $101.1 million for the six months ended June30, 2016 to $135.1 million for the six months ended June30, 2017, an increase of 34%. The increase in operating revenues period-over-period primarily relates to increased gathering and compression revenues associated with a 192% and 377% increase in gathering and compression throughput, respectively. The increase in operating revenues also related to the impact of post-acquisition revenues associated with the Vantage Midstream Entities of $27.8 million for the six months ended June30, 2017, which was comprised of gathering, compression and water distribution volumes of 377 MDth/d, 50 MDth/d and 63 MMgal, respectively.