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Percentage Of Average Net Royalty Interest In Acquired Mineral And Royalty Interests

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Percentage Of Mineral Acres Operated

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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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Amount of gain (loss) on sale or disposal of proven and unproven oil and gas properties.

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ACQUISITIONS AND DIVESTITURES - 2019 Activity (Details) shares in Millions	Jul. 29, 2019 USD ($) a shares	Jul. 01, 2019 USD ($) a	May 23, 2019 USD ($) a
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Conventional and non-core Permian assets divested, area (in acre) \| a		103,750	6,589
Proceeds from divestiture of certain conventional and non-core assets		$ 285,000,000	$ 37,000,000
Gain (loss) from divestiture of certain conventional and non-core assets		$ 0	$ 0
2019 Drop-Down Acquisition
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Conventional and non-core Permian assets divested, area (in acre) \| a	5,490
Proceeds from divestiture of certain conventional and non-core assets	$ 190,000,000
Percentage of mineral acres operated	95.00%
Percentage of average net royalty interest in acquired mineral and royalty interests	3.20%
Viper Energy Partners LP \| 2019 Drop-Down Acquisition
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Number of shares to be issued in acquisition (in Shares) \| shares	18.3
Business combination, fair value of consideration	$ 497,000,000