Debt Instrument, Covenant Terms, Minimum Excess Availability

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Debt Instrument, Debt Covenant, Reduction Of Borrowing Base and Commitments To Arrive At Exposure

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Debtor-In-Possession Financing, Maximum Aggregate Increase In Credit Facility

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Debtor-In-Possession Financing, Minimum Incremental Increase In Credit Facility

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Debtor-in-Possession Financing, Borrowing Base Terms, Percentage Of Eligible Accounts Receivable

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Line Of Credit Facility, Letter Of Credit Fee

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Percentage points added to the reference rate to compute the variable rate on the debt instrument.

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Fair value portion of debt instrument payable, including, but not limited to, notes payable and loans payable.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 825
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 10
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=109250915&loc=d3e13433-108611

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Weighted average interest rate of debt outstanding.

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Amount debtor-in-possession financing arranged (but not necessarily all borrowed).

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Interest rate on outstanding borrowings under debtor-in-possession financing arrangement.

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The fee, expressed as a percentage of the line of credit facility, for available but unused credit capacity under the credit facility.

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LONG-TERM DEBT - Narrative (Detail) - USD ($)	Jun. 14, 2018	Jun. 30, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Weighted average interest rate		9.00%	8.90%
Aggregate market value of debt		$ 15,600,000,000	$ 15,400,000,000
Subsidiary \| Line of Credit \| DIP Facility
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
DIP Facility, aggregate principal amount	$ 450,000,000.0
Revolving credit commitment \| Subsidiary \| Line of Credit \| DIP Facility
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
DIP Facility, aggregate principal amount	$ 450,000,000
Borrowing base as a percentage of eligible accounts receivable	90.00%
Minimum incremental increase in facility	$ 10,000,000
Maximum aggregate increase in facility	$ 100,000,000
Commitment fee percentage	0.50%
Letter of credit fee percentage	2.25%
Amount of reduction of borrowing base and commitments to arrive at exposure	$ 37,500,000.0
Minimum excess availability amount	$ 0
Revolving credit commitment \| Subsidiary \| Line of Credit \| DIP Facility \| Federal funds rate
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Basis spread on variable rate	0.50%
Revolving credit commitment \| Subsidiary \| Line of Credit \| DIP Facility \| One-month Eurodollar
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Basis spread on variable rate	1.00%
Revolving credit commitment \| Subsidiary \| Line of Credit \| DIP Facility \| Eurocurrency rate
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Basis spread on variable rate	1.00%
Borrowing rate under DIP Credit Agreement	2.25%
Revolving credit commitment \| Subsidiary \| Line of Credit \| DIP Facility \| Base rate
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Borrowing rate under DIP Credit Agreement	1.25%