Business combination consideration transferred exchange ratio.

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Common shares that could be awarded based upon total shareholder return.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Percentage of vesting of award under share-based payment arrangement.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (a)(1)
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=128089324&loc=d3e5070-113901

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Share-Based Compensation (Summary of Unvested Restricted Stock Awards, Performance-Based Restricted Stock Awards And Performance Share Units) (Parenthetical) (Details) shares in Millions		12 Months Ended
	Jan. 07, 2021	Dec. 31, 2022 shares
Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award Line Items
Conversion of common stock into right to received per share	0.5165
Performance Share Units [Member]
Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award Line Items
Share-Based Compensation Arrangement by Share-Based Payment Award, Award Vesting Rights, Percentage		100.00%
Performance Share Units [Member] \| Maximum [Member]
Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award Line Items
Share-Based Compensation Arrangement by Share-Based Payment Award, Award Vesting Rights, Percentage		200.00%
Maximum common shares that could be awarded based upon total shareholder return		3.7
Performance Share Units [Member] \| Minimum [Member]
Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award Line Items
Share-Based Compensation Arrangement by Share-Based Payment Award, Award Vesting Rights, Percentage		0.00%
Devon and WPX Agreement [Member]
Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award Line Items
Conversion of common stock into right to received per share	0.5165