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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
	Dec. 31, 2014		Dec. 31, 2013		Dec. 31, 2012		Dec. 31, 2011
Property, Plant and Equipment [Abstract]
Property acquisition, cumulative	$ 247,485us-gaap_AcquisitionCostsCumulative						$ 62,456us-gaap_AcquisitionCostsCumulative
Property acquisition	64,776us-gaap_AcquisitionCosts		21,723us-gaap_AcquisitionCosts		98,530us-gaap_AcquisitionCosts
Exploration, cumulative	96,752us-gaap_ExplorationCostsCumulative	[1]					6,898us-gaap_ExplorationCostsCumulative	[1]
Exploration	48,614us-gaap_ExplorationCosts	[1]	36,938us-gaap_ExplorationCosts	[1]	4,302us-gaap_ExplorationCosts	[1]
Total costs incurred, cumulative	344,237sd_CapitalizedCostsOfUnprovedPropertiesExcludedFromAmortizationIncludingPipeInventoryCostCumulative						69,354sd_CapitalizedCostsOfUnprovedPropertiesExcludedFromAmortizationIncludingPipeInventoryCostCumulative
Total costs incurred	$ 113,390sd_CapitalizedCostsOfUnprovedPropertiesExcludedFromAmortizationIncludingPipeInventoryCost		$ 58,661sd_CapitalizedCostsOfUnprovedPropertiesExcludedFromAmortizationIncludingPipeInventoryCost		$ 102,832sd_CapitalizedCostsOfUnprovedPropertiesExcludedFromAmortizationIncludingPipeInventoryCost
[1] Includes $53.6 million of pipe inventory costs incurred ($21.3 million in 2014, $30.7 million in 2013 and $1.6 million in 2012 and prior years).

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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.

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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.

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