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Property, Plant and Equipment - Capitalized Costs of Unproved Properties Excluded from Amortization (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified |  | 12 Months Ended |
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Dec. 31, 2012 | Dec. 31, 2012 Year Cost Incurred 2012 | Dec. 31, 2011 Year Cost Incurred 2011 | Dec. 31, 2010 Year Cost Incurred 2010 | Dec. 31, 2009 Year Cost Incurred 2009 and Prior
Capitalized Costs of Unproved Properties Excluded from Amortization [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Property acquisition, cumulative | $ 856,290 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | $ 115,593 |
Property acquisition |  |  | 377,185 |  | 76,754 |  | 286,758 |  |  |
Exploration, cumulative | 81,940 | [1] |  |  |  |  |  |  | 12,230 | [1]
Exploration |  |  | 57,579 | [1] | 5,846 | [1] | 6,285 | [1] |  |
Total costs incurred, cumulative | 938,230 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 127,823 |
Total costs incurred |  |  | $ 434,764 |  | $ 82,600 |  | $ 293,043 |  |  |
[1] | Includes $72.4 million of pipe inventory costs incurred ($54.9 million in 2012, $2.3 million in 2011, $5.1 million in 2010 and $10.1 million in 2009 and prior years).

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- Definition The capitalized costs incurred during the period (excluded from amortization) to purchase, lease or otherwise acquire an unproved property, including costs of lease bonuses and options to purchase or lease properties, the portion of costs applicable to minerals when land including mineral rights is purchased in fee, brokers' fees, recording fees, legal costs, and other costs incurred in acquiring properties. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 932 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 1 -Subparagraph (SX 210.4-10.(c)(7)(ii)) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=21918352&loc=d3e511914-122862 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher SEC -Name Regulation S-X (SX) -Number 210 -Section 10 -Paragraph c -Subparagraph 3(ii)(A) -Article 4 + Details
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- Definition The capitalized costs incurred (excluded from amortization), as of the date of the balance sheet, to purchase, lease or otherwise acquire an unproved property, including costs of lease bonuses and options to purchase or lease properties, the portion of costs applicable to minerals when land including mineral rights is purchased in fee, brokers' fees, recording fees, legal costs, and other costs incurred in acquiring properties. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 932 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 1 -Subparagraph (SX 210.4-10.(c)(7)(ii)) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=21918352&loc=d3e511914-122862 + Details
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- Definition The capitalized costs incurred during the period (excluded from amortization) in identifying areas that may warrant examination and in examining specific areas that are considered to have prospects of containing oil and gas reserves, including costs of drilling exploratory wells and exploratory-type stratigraphic test wells. Exploration costs may be incurred both before acquiring the related property (sometimes referred to in part as prospecting costs) and after acquiring the property. Principal types of exploration costs, which include depreciation and applicable operating costs of support equipment and facilities and other costs of exploration activities, are: costs of topographical, geographical and geophysical studies, rights of access to properties to conduct those studies, and salaries and other expenses of geologists, geophysical crews, and others conducting those studies. Collectively, these are sometimes referred to as geological and geophysical or "G&G" costs. Exploration costs also include costs of carrying and retaining undeveloped properties, such as delay rentals, ad valorem taxes on properties, legal costs for title defense, the maintenance of land and lease records, dry hole contributions and bottom hole contributions, costs of drilling and equipping exploratory wells and costs of drilling exploratory-type stratigraphic test wells. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 932 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 1 -Subparagraph (SX 210.4-10.(c)(7)(ii)) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=21918352&loc=d3e511914-122862 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher SEC -Name Regulation S-X (SX) -Number 210 -Section 10 -Paragraph a -Subparagraph 15 -Article 4 + Details
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