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Asset Retirement Obligations - Reconciliation of Beginning and Ending Aggregate Carrying Amounts of Asset Retirement Obligations (Parenthetical) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	3 Months Ended		1 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2014		Feb. 28, 2014
Reconciliation Of Changes In Asset Retirement Obligations
Liability settled or disposed in current period(1)	$ (377,578)us-gaap_AssetRetirementObligationLiabilitiesSettled	[1]
Gulf Properties
Reconciliation Of Changes In Asset Retirement Obligations
Liability settled or disposed in current period(1)			$ (366,000)us-gaap_AssetRetirementObligationLiabilitiesSettled / us-gaap_IncomeStatementBalanceSheetAndAdditionalDisclosuresByDisposalGroupsIncludingDiscontinuedOperationsAxis = sd_GulfPropertiesMember
[1] Includes $366.0 million associated with the Gulf Properties sold in February 2014.

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- Definition

Amount of asset retirement obligations settled, or otherwise disposed of, during the period. This may include asset retirement obligations transferred to third parties associated with the sale of a long-lived asset.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 410

-SubTopic 20

-Section 50

-Paragraph 1

-Subparagraph (c)(2)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6392692&loc=d3e7535-110849

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