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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Details) | 12 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2012
Low end of the range |
Other Property and Equipment |
Expected lives of the individual assets or group of assets | 3 years
High end of the range |
Other Property and Equipment |
Expected lives of the individual assets or group of assets | 7 years
Oil and natural gas properties |
Limitation on Capitalized Costs |
Discount rate for present value | 10.00%
Period considered for computing unweighted arithmetic average of oil and natural gas prices | 12 months

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- Definition Interest rate used to find the present value of an amount to be paid or received in the future as an input to measure fair value. For example, but not limited to, weighted average cost of capital (WACC), cost of capital, cost of equity and cost of debt. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 820 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (bbb) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=7578670&loc=d3e19207-110258 + Details
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