Income Taxes	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2016
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]
INCOME TAXES	INCOME TAXES The Company’s deferred tax assets exceed its deferred tax liabilities due to the deferred tax assets generated by the full-cost ceiling impairment charges recorded in prior periods; as a result, the Company established a valuation allowance against most of the deferred tax assets beginning in the third quarter of 2015. The Company retains a full valuation allowance at September 30, 2016 due to uncertainties regarding the future realization of its deferred tax assets. The valuation allowance will continue to be recognized until the realization of future deferred tax benefits are more likely than not to be utilized. The current tax benefit for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016 represents a refund due from the Internal Revenue Service for 2015 income taxes. The total income tax benefit for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015 differed from amounts computed by applying the U.S. federal statutory tax rate to loss before income taxes due primarily to the recording of the valuation allowance against the net deferred tax assets, which resulted from the full-cost ceiling impairment recorded in the third quarter of 2015.

Income Taxes

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2016

The Company’s deferred tax assets exceed its deferred tax liabilities due to the deferred tax assets generated by the full-cost ceiling impairment charges recorded in prior periods; as a result, the Company established a valuation allowance against most of the deferred tax assets beginning in the third quarter of 2015. The Company retains a full valuation allowance at September 30, 2016 due to uncertainties regarding the future realization of its deferred tax assets. The valuation allowance will continue to be recognized until the realization of future deferred tax benefits are more likely than not to be utilized. The current tax benefit for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016 represents a refund due from the Internal Revenue Service for 2015 income taxes.

The total income tax benefit for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015 differed from amounts computed by applying the U.S. federal statutory tax rate to loss before income taxes due primarily to the recording of the valuation allowance against the net deferred tax assets, which resulted from the full-cost ceiling impairment recorded in the third quarter of 2015.