Basis of Presentation (Details)	0 Months Ended
Dec. 16, 2013
Berry and LinnCo
Transaction
Exchange ratio	168.00%
Number of shares issued	93,756,674
LINN Energy LLC and LinnCo
Transaction
Number of shares issued	93,756,674

Number of shares of equity interests issued or issuable to acquire entity.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 805

-SubTopic 30

-Section 50

-Paragraph 1

-Subparagraph (b)(4)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=7488404&loc=d3e6927-128479

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