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Leases and Restricted Cash - Operating Lease Obligations - Additional Information (Detail) - Teekay Tangguh Joint Venture [Member] $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2015 USD ($) Vessel	Dec. 31, 2014 USD ($)
Property Subject to or Available for Operating Lease [Line Items]
Number of vessels | Vessel	2
Tax indemnification of lease contracts	The tax indemnification is for the duration of the lease contract with the third party plus the years it would take for the lease payments to be statute barred, and ends in 2033.
Tax indemnification | $	$ 8.0	$ 8.4
Operating lease arrangement period, lessor	20 years
Operating lease arrangement period, lessee	20 years

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The current carrying amount of the liability for the freestanding or embedded guarantor's obligations under the guarantee or each group of similar guarantees.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 460
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 4
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Term of the lessee's leasing arrangement, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Term of the lessor's leasing arrangement, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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This element represents the description of a lease related indemnification agreement including the nature of the indemnification, the maximum potential amount of future payments the indemnification agreement could be required to make under the agreement, the current carrying amount of the liability and the nature of any recourse provision that would enable the lessee guarantor) to recover from third parties any of the amounts paid under the agreement and any assets held either as collateral or by third parties that upon occurrence of any triggering event or condition under the indemnification agreement the guarantor can obtain and liquidate to recover all or a portion of the amounts paid under the indemnification agreement.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 460
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 4
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6851643&loc=d3e12069-110248

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