Kent a small Texas oil company, holds huge reserves of oil and gas assets. Assume that at the end of 2008, Kent's cost of mineral assets totaled approximately $18 million, representing 2.4 million barrels of oil and gas reserves in the ground.
1. Which depletion method does Kent use to compute its annual depletion expense for the minerals removed from the ground?
2. Suppose Kent removed 0.8 million barrels of oil during 2009. Record Kent's depletion expense for 2009.