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Significant Accounting Policies and Practices and Recent Accounting Pronouncements - Proven and Unproven Oil and Gas Properties (Details) (USD $) In Millions, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2014	Sep. 30, 2013	Sep. 30, 2012
Reserve Quantities [Line Items]
Gain on contingent purchase price reduction	$ 0.5	$ 0	$ 41.0
Unamortized Costs Capitalized Less Related Deferred Income Taxes Exceed Ceiling Limitations, Expense	81.0
Impairment of proved oil and natural gas properties	81.0	54.3	0
Gas Gathering and Processing Equipment [Member]
Reserve Quantities [Line Items]
Property, Plant and Equipment, Estimated Useful Lives	14 years
Compass Production Partners [Member]
Reserve Quantities [Line Items]
Impairment of Unproved Oil and Gas Properties	6.1	10.3
Compass
Reserve Quantities [Line Items]
Impairment of proved oil and natural gas properties	81.0	54.3
Unproved Oil and Natural Gas Properties and Development Costs Not Being Amortized | Compass
Reserve Quantities [Line Items]
Capitalized Costs, Unproved Properties	$ 20.2
Oil
Reserve Quantities [Line Items]
Average Sales Prices	99.08
Natural Gas
Reserve Quantities [Line Items]
Average Sales Prices	4.24
Natural Gas Liquids
Reserve Quantities [Line Items]
Average Sales Prices	43.58

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The revenues derived from sales of oil or gas in each geographic area during the reporting period divided by the number of barrels of oil produced or thousands of cubic feet of gas produced.

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Capitalized costs of unproved properties incurred for any combination mineral interests acquisitions and other costs not previously disclosed within this table.

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Useful life of long lived, physical assets used in the normal conduct of business and not intended for resale, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days. Examples include, but not limited to, land, buildings, machinery and equipment, office equipment, furniture and fixtures, and computer equipment.

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The excess of unamortized costs capitalized within a cost center, less related deferred income taxes, over the cost center ceiling limitation, which is charged to expense for oil and gas producing companies that use full cost method of accounting for investments in oil and gas producing properties.

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