Public Utilities, Property, Plant and Equipment, Net, Excluding Construction Work In Progress

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Public Utilities, Property, Plant and Equipment, Plant in Service, Excluding Construction Work In Progress

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Results Of Operations, Oil And Gas Producing Activities, Gain (Loss), After Tax

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Results Of Operations, Oil And Gas Producing Activities, Gain (Loss), Before Tax

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Area assigned to productive oil and gas wells with working interest ownership.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Name Regulation S-K (SK)
-Number 229
-Section 1208
-Paragraph (a)
-Publisher SEC

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The cash inflow to dispose of long-lived, physical assets and mineral interests in oil and gas properties used for normal oil and gas operations.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Section 45
-Paragraph 12
-Subparagraph (c)
-Publisher FASB
-URI https://asc.fasb.org//1943274/2147482740/230-10-45-12

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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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Useful life of long lived, physical assets used in the normal conduct of business and not intended for resale, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days. Examples include, but not limited to, land, buildings, machinery and equipment, office equipment, furniture and fixtures, and computer equipment.

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Period end book value of accumulated depreciation on property, plant and equipment (PPE) that is owned by the regulated operations of the public utility.

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Period end amount of construction work in progress in public utility.

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Period end amount of total net PPE.

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Property, Plant and Equipment, Net - EGTS (Details) - EGTS $ in Millions	1 Months Ended	6 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2023 USD ($) a	Jun. 30, 2023 USD ($) a	Jun. 30, 2022 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2022 USD ($)
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Utility plant in-service	$ 6,970	$ 6,970		$ 6,803
Accumulated depreciation and amortization	(2,498)	(2,498)		(2,440)
Plant, net	4,472	4,472		4,363
Construction work-in-progress	183	183		141
Property, plant and equipment, net	$ 4,655	$ 4,655		4,504
Oil and gas, developed acreage \| a	6,500	6,500
Proceeds from assignment of shale development rights	$ 8	$ 8	$ 0
Shale development rights gain	8
Shale development rights, gain after-tax	6
Interstate natural gas transmission and storage assets
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Utility plant in-service	$ 6,890	$ 6,890		6,724
Interstate natural gas transmission and storage assets \| Minimum
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Depreciable life	28 years	28 years
Interstate natural gas transmission and storage assets \| Maximum
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Depreciable life	50 years	50 years
Intangible plant
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Utility plant in-service	$ 80	$ 80		$ 79
Intangible plant \| Minimum
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Depreciable life	12 years	12 years
Intangible plant \| Maximum
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Depreciable life	19 years	19 years