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Income Taxes (Details Textuals) (USD $)
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Dec. 31, 2013
Dec. 31, 2012
Statement Income Taxes Details [Abstract]      
Effective Income Tax Rate Reconciliation At Federal Statutory Income Tax Rate 35.00%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationAtFederalStatutoryIncomeTaxRate    
Deferred Tax Assets, Valuation Allowance $ 161,500,000us-gaap_DeferredTaxAssetsValuationAllowance $ 363,400,000us-gaap_DeferredTaxAssetsValuationAllowance  
Total change in valuation allowance 201,900,000us-gaap_ValuationAllowanceDeferredTaxAssetChangeInAmount    
Change in valuation allowance - earnings 199,038,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationChangeInDeferredTaxAssetsValuationAllowance 81,923,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationChangeInDeferredTaxAssetsValuationAllowance (446,148,000)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationChangeInDeferredTaxAssetsValuationAllowance
Change in valuation allowance - equity 2,900,000upl_Incometaxreconciliationchangeindeferredtaxassetsvaluationallowanceequity    
U.S. federal alternative minimum tax credits 14,100,000us-gaap_DeferredTaxAssetsTaxCreditCarryforwardsAlternativeMinimumTax    
Deferred Tax Assets Tax Credit Carryforwards General Business 500,000us-gaap_DeferredTaxAssetsTaxCreditCarryforwardsGeneralBusiness    
Foreign tax credit carryforward 1,700,000us-gaap_DeferredTaxAssetsTaxCreditCarryforwardsForeign    
Deferred Tax Assets Operating Loss Carryforwards Domestic Total 214,900,000upl_DeferredTaxAssetsOperatingLossCarryforwardsDomesticTotal 260,100,000upl_DeferredTaxAssetsOperatingLossCarryforwardsDomesticTotal  
Deferred Tax Assets Operating Loss Carryback Domestic   54,500,000upl_DeferredTaxAssetsOperatingLossCarrybackDomestic  
Income Tax Receivable   8,000,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxReceivable  
Deferred Tax Assets Operating Loss Carryforwards Domestic 420,900,000us-gaap_DeferredTaxAssetsOperatingLossCarryforwardsDomestic    
State tax net operating loss carryforwards 798,400,000upl_StateTaxNetOperatingLossCarryforward    
Canadian Operating Loss 23,800,000upl_CanadianOperatingLoss    
Income taxes receivable - Canada $ 6,200,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxesReceivable