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Partnership Operations and Organization (Details)	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2014 SegmentINF Platform mi Fractionator bbl ft3 Plant
Partnership Operations, Organization and Basis of Presentation [Abstract]
Number of miles of onshore and offshore pipelines	51,000
Number of barrels of storage capacity	200,000,000
Number of cubic feet of storage capacity	14,000,000,000
Number of natural gas processing plants	24
Number of fractionators	22
Number of offshore hub platforms	6
Number of reportable segments	5
Limited partners ownership interest (in hundredths)	100.00%

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The number of units or percentage investment held by one or more members or limited partners of the LLC or LP.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 272

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 3

-Subparagraph (b)

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