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Supplemental Information on Oil and Natural Gas Producing Activities - Calculation of Weighted Average Per Unit Prices (Unaudited) (Details)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2013	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Oil Reserves
Average Sales Price and Production Costs Per Unit of Production [Line Items]
Weighted Average Sales Price (per barrel for Oil and NGLs/per Mcf for Natural Gas)	95.67sd_WeightedAverageSalesPrice / us-gaap_AverageSalesPriceAndProductionCostsPerUnitOfProductionProductionTypeAxis = us-gaap_OilReservesMember	91.65sd_WeightedAverageSalesPrice / us-gaap_AverageSalesPriceAndProductionCostsPerUnitOfProductionProductionTypeAxis = us-gaap_OilReservesMember	91.35sd_WeightedAverageSalesPrice / us-gaap_AverageSalesPriceAndProductionCostsPerUnitOfProductionProductionTypeAxis = us-gaap_OilReservesMember
Natural Gas Liquids
Average Sales Price and Production Costs Per Unit of Production [Line Items]
Weighted Average Sales Price (per barrel for Oil and NGLs/per Mcf for Natural Gas)	31.40sd_WeightedAverageSalesPrice / us-gaap_AverageSalesPriceAndProductionCostsPerUnitOfProductionProductionTypeAxis = us-gaap_NaturalGasLiquidsReservesMember	32.64sd_WeightedAverageSalesPrice / us-gaap_AverageSalesPriceAndProductionCostsPerUnitOfProductionProductionTypeAxis = us-gaap_NaturalGasLiquidsReservesMember	46.33sd_WeightedAverageSalesPrice / us-gaap_AverageSalesPriceAndProductionCostsPerUnitOfProductionProductionTypeAxis = us-gaap_NaturalGasLiquidsReservesMember
Natural Gas
Average Sales Price and Production Costs Per Unit of Production [Line Items]
Weighted Average Sales Price (per barrel for Oil and NGLs/per Mcf for Natural Gas)	3.65sd_WeightedAverageSalesPrice / us-gaap_AverageSalesPriceAndProductionCostsPerUnitOfProductionProductionTypeAxis = us-gaap_NaturalGasReservesMember	2.29sd_WeightedAverageSalesPrice / us-gaap_AverageSalesPriceAndProductionCostsPerUnitOfProductionProductionTypeAxis = us-gaap_NaturalGasReservesMember	4.06sd_WeightedAverageSalesPrice / us-gaap_AverageSalesPriceAndProductionCostsPerUnitOfProductionProductionTypeAxis = us-gaap_NaturalGasReservesMember

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