Impairment expenses reflect current weak commodity prices. The impairment has little to do with the future profitability of what was impaired.
A long time ago, back when I was in college, the accounting world decided that mark-to-market (unrealized) gains and losses should be on the income statement because of the value changes inherent in these contracts each quarterly report. Crescent Energy (
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