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Oil and Gas Costs (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2013
Extractive Industries [Abstract] |
Costs related to our oil and gas activities |
|  | 2013 |  | 2012 |  | 2011
Property acquisition costs: |  |  |  |  |
| Proved | $ 20,542 |  | $ 368,444 |  | $ 2,147,892
| Unproved | - |  | - |  | -
Exploration | 15,715 |  | 9,910 |  | 29,292
Development | 1,265,126 |  | 1,455,993 |  | 394,381
Capitalized asset retirement obligations | 114,003 |  | 53,468 |  | 25,043
| Total costs incurred for oil and gas properties | $ 1,415,386 |  | $ 1,887,815 |  | $ 2,596,608
Aggregate capitalized costs relating to our oil and gas property activities |
|  | 2013 |  | 2012 |  | 2011
Proved oil and gas properties | $34,138,841 |  | $31,669,572 |  | $30,256,330
Unproved oil and gas properties: |  |  |  |  |
| subject to amortization | 170,487 |  | 170,487 |  | 170,487
| not subject to amortization | - |  | - |  | -
| 34,309,328 |  | 31,840,059 |  | 30,426,817
Less accumulated DD&A | 17,249,803 |  | 16,154,203 |  | 15,161,524
|  | $17,059,525 |  | $15,685,856 |  | $15,265,293

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