Common Stock Common Stock (Equity Securities Offering) (Details) - Piedmont Natural Gas [Member] shares in Millions	Mar. 31, 2016 $ / shares shares
Forward Contract Indexed to Issuer's Equity [Line Items]
Shares offered	10.6
Then Forward Price \| $ / shares	$ 69.84
Shares required to net settle	1.4

Then Forward Price determined by the Equity Forward agreements

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 815
-SubTopic 40
-Section 50
-Paragraph 5
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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 815
-SubTopic 40
-Section 50
-Paragraph 5
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