Deferred Compensation Plan For Directors	12 Months Ended
Deferred Compensation Plan For Directors	Sep. 30, 2013
Deferred Compensation Plan For Directors [Abstract]
DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN FOR DIRECTORS	8. DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN FOR DIRECTORS The Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan for Non-Employee Directors (the “Plan”) provides that each eligible director can individually elect to receive shares of Company Common Stock rather than cash for Board and committee chair retainers, Board meeting fees and Board committee meeting fees. These shares are unissued and vest as earned. The shares are credited to each director’s deferred fee account at the closing market price of the stock on the date earned. As of September 30, 2013, there were 122,219 shares (121,348 shares at September 30, 2012) included in the Plan. The deferred balance outstanding at September 30, 2013, under the Plan was $2,756,526 ($2,676,160 at September 30, 2012). Expenses totaling $377,520, $417,347 and $443,456 were charged to the Company’s results of operations for the years ended September 30, 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively, and are included in general and administrative expense in the accompanying Statement of Operations.

The entire disclosure for compensation-related costs for equity-based compensation, which may include disclosure of policies, compensation plan details, allocation of equity compensation, incentive distributions, equity-based arrangements to obtain goods and services, deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownership plan details and employee stock purchase plan details.

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