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Comprehensive Income (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2011
Comprehensive Income [Abstract] |
Components Of Other Comprehensive Income, Net Of Tax |
| Three Months Ended September 30, | Nine Months Ended September 30,
| 2011 | 2010 | 2011 | 2010
Net income |  | $206.1 |  | $132.1 |  | $375.2 |  | $451.6 |
Other comprehensive income (loss): |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Net change in fair value of derivatives |  | (7.6 | ) | 8.7 |  | (1.6 | ) | 5.7 |
Reclassification of gains and losses on derivative |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
instruments from other comprehensive (income) loss |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
into net income |  | (.5 | ) | .2 |  | (2.8 | ) | (1.3 | )
Other |  | 5.8 |  | -- |  | 5.8 |  | -- |
Net other comprehensive income (loss) |  | (2.3 | ) | 8.9 |  | 1.4 |  | 4.4 |
Comprehensive income |  | 203.8 |  | 141.0 |  | 376.6 |  | 456.0 |
Comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interests |  | (1.6 | ) | (1.6 | ) | (4.2 | ) | (5.0 | )
Comprehensive income attributable to Ensco |  | $202.2 |  | $139.4 |  | $372.4 |  | $451.0 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of components of comprehensive income (loss) including, but not limited to: (a) foreign currency translation adjustments; (b) gains (losses) on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (c) gains (losses) on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (d) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (e) unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (f) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (g) the net gain (loss) and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Publisher FASB -Number -Article -Subparagraph -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Paragraph 1 -Section 45 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920043&loc=d3e526-108580 + Details
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