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Properties And Equipment (Details)	Jan. 21, 2021 USD ($) a	Dec. 17, 2020 USD ($) a	Nov. 12, 2020 USD ($) a	Oct. 08, 2020 USD ($) a shares	Mar. 31, 2021 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2020 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($) a	Mar. 31, 2021 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2020 USD ($)
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Proceeds from sales of assets								$ 21,000	$ 3,376,049
Gain on sale of oil and gas properties					$ 23,257			$ 43,525	$ 3,272,888
Purchase price of mineral acreage acquired				$ 5,500,000
Shares issued as consideration \| shares				153,375
Common stock offering closing date				Sep. 01, 2020
Computation of Natural Gas, Oil and NGL Reserves								12 months
Impairment					$ 0	$ 29,500,000		$ 0
Percentage of discount rate for developed location						10.00%
Undeveloped location assigned value						$ 0
Eddy County, New Mexico [Member]
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Mineral acreage sold \| a							530
Proceeds from sales of assets							$ 3,400,000
Gain on sale of oil and gas properties							$ 3,300,000
Harrison County, Texas [Member]
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Mineral acreage acquired \| a	11
Purchase price of mineral acreage acquired	$ 362,486
San Augustine County, Texas [Member]
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Mineral acreage acquired \| a		89	134
Purchase price of mineral acreage acquired		$ 1,000,000	$ 750,000
Grady County, Oklahoma [Member]
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Royalty Acres Acquired \| a				297
Harrison, Panola and Nacogdoches Counties, Texas [Member]
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Mineral acreage acquired \| a				237
Royalty Acres Acquired \| a				12
Kingfisher, Canadian and Garvin Counties, Oklahoma [Member]
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Mineral acreage acquired \| a							700
Purchase price of mineral acreage acquired							$ 9,300,000
Fayetteville Shale [Member]
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Impairment						19,300,000
Eagle Ford [Member]
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Impairment						7,300,000
Other Producing Assets [Member]
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Impairment						$ 2,900,000