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Equity-based Awards, Restricted Unit Awards (Details) (Restricted Common Unit Awards [Member], USD $)
In Millions, except Share data, unless otherwise specified
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
Mar. 31, 2014
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]    
Vesting rate of restricted common unit awards (in hundredths) 25.00%epd_PercentageOfVestingRateOfEquityBasedAwards  
Summary of awards activity, equity instruments other than options [Roll Forward]    
Beginning of period (in units) 4,229,790us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvestedNumber  
Vested (in units) (1,852,746)us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsVestedInPeriod  
Forfeited (in units) (84,700)us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsForfeitedInPeriod  
End of period (in units) 2,292,344us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvestedNumber  
Restricted units outstanding, weighted-average grant date fair value [Roll Forward]    
Weighted-average grant date fair value per unit, at beginning of period (in dollars per unit) $ 26.96us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvestedWeightedAverageGrantDateFairValue [1]  
Vested weighted-average grant date fair value per unit (in dollars per unit) $ 25.89us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsVestedInPeriodWeightedAverageGrantDateFairValue [1]  
Forfeited weighted-average grant date fair value per unit (in dollars per unit) $ 27.16us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsForfeituresWeightedAverageGrantDateFairValue [1]  
Weighted-average grant date fair value per unit, at end of period (in dollars per unit) $ 27.82us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsNonvestedWeightedAverageGrantDateFairValue [1]  
Summary of awards activity, equity instruments other than options, additional disclosures [Abstract]    
Cash distributions paid to restricted common unitholders $ 1.5epd_DistributionMadeToRestrictedCommonUnitholdersCashDistributionsPaid $ 2.5epd_DistributionMadeToRestrictedCommonUnitholdersCashDistributionsPaid
Total intrinsic value of our restricted common unit awards that vested during period 62.4us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsVestedInPeriodTotalFairValue 81.4us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsVestedInPeriodTotalFairValue
Unrecognized Compensation Expense [Abstract]    
Unrecognized compensation cost 20.5us-gaap_EmployeeServiceShareBasedCompensationNonvestedAwardsTotalCompensationCostNotYetRecognized  
Recognition period for total unrecognized compensation cost 1 year 4 months 24 days  
Enterprise [Member]
   
Unrecognized Compensation Expense [Abstract]    
Unrecognized compensation cost $ 17.7us-gaap_EmployeeServiceShareBasedCompensationNonvestedAwardsTotalCompensationCostNotYetRecognized
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[1] Determined by dividing the aggregate grant date fair value of awards (before an allowance for forfeitures) by the number of awards issued.