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Maximum Foregone Distributions over Remainder of Long-term Purchase Commitment

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Aggregate carrying amount of the estimated litigation liability for known or estimated probable loss from litigation, which may include attorneys' fees and other litigation costs.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 450
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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The minimum amount the entity agreed to spend under the long-term purchase commitment.

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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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Period covered by the long-term purchase commitment, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Amount of commitment classified as other to be paid in next fiscal year following current fiscal year. Excludes interim and annual periods when interim periods are reported from current statement of financial position date (rolling approach).

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Amount of commitment classified as other to be paid in second and third fiscal years following current fiscal year. Excludes interim and annual periods when interim periods are reported from current statement of financial position date (rolling approach).

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Commitments and Contingencies (Narrative) (Details) - USD ($)			3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
	Feb. 26, 2021	Jan. 31, 2019	Sep. 30, 2018	Sep. 30, 2021	Dec. 31, 2020	Aug. 21, 2020
Long-term Purchase Commitment [Line Items]
Maximum foregone distributions over the remainder of the long-term purchase commitment				$ 72,600,000
Legal settlement				0	$ 2,070,000
Litigation Settlement, Amount Awarded to Other Party	$ 2,100,000	$ 2,400,000
Cockerell Oil Properties, Ltd., v. Unit Petroleum Company [Member]
Long-term Purchase Commitment [Line Items]
Legal settlement						$ 15,750,000
Chieftan Royalty Company v. Unit Petroleum Company [Member]
Long-term Purchase Commitment [Line Items]
Legal settlement						$ 29,250,000
Mid-Stream [Member]
Long-term Purchase Commitment [Line Items]
Other Commitment, Due in Next Twelve Months				1,100,000
Other Commitment, Due in Second and Third Year				100,000
Capital Addition Purchase Commitments [Member] \| Oil and Natural Gas [Member]
Long-term Purchase Commitment [Line Items]
Long-term purchase commitment			$ 150,000,000
Long-term purchase commitment, period			3 years
Long-term purchase commitment, purchases made				$ 24,800,000