Related Party Transactions	12 Months Ended
Related Party Transactions	Dec. 31, 2013
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]
Related Party Transactions	Note 12 — Related Party Transactions Our Chief Executive Officer, Owen Kratz, through Class A limited partnership interests in OKCD Investments, Ltd. (“OKCD”), personally owns approximately 85% of the partnership. OKCD receives a royalty from ERT, which was a wholly owned subsidiary of Helix until ERT was sold in February 2013. Payments to OKCD during the period in which Helix owned ERT totaled $0.6 million, $6.9 million and $8.3 million in the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively. A former member of our Board of Directors is part of the senior management team of Weatherford International, Ltd (Weatherford). This individual resigned from our Board of Directors in May 2011. We paid Weatherford, an oil and gas industry company, $3.6 million for services provided to us in 2011.

The entire disclosure for related party transactions. Examples of related party transactions include transactions between (a) a parent company and its subsidiary; (b) subsidiaries of a common parent; (c) and entity and its principal owners; and (d) affiliates.

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