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Risk Management Activities - Schedule of Combined Maximum Credit Risk Exposure (Parenthetical) (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Millions | Dec. 31, 2018 | Dec. 31, 2017
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Trade and other receivable [member] |  |
Disclosure of credit risk exposure [line items] |  |
VAT, prepayments and diesel rebates | $ 73.7 | $ 135.4

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- Definition Value added tax, prepayments and diesel rebates receivables. + References No definition available. + Details
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Period Type: | instant

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- Definition Line items represent concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes of the table. + References No definition available. + Details
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