Oil and Gas Properties (Details Textual)	1 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Jul. 31, 2013 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2016 USD ($) a oil	Dec. 31, 2015
Oil and Gas Properties (Textual)
Gas and oil area, gross | a		43,015
Gas and oil area, net | a		34,096
Description for term of capital lease		If the Company meets the conditions of the leases the Company will then be permitted to drill on and produce oil from the land into perpetuity. These conditions give the Company until the expiration of the leases to meet the following requirements on its oil sands leases:1) The Alberta Department of Energy has relaxed the drilling requirements under section 3(2)(a) option 1 of the Oil Sands Tenure Regulation of the Mines and Minerals Act of Alberta. Under the relaxed rules the Company would now have to drill 26 wells throughout the 68 sections to preserve all of the Company's nine oil sands leases; or2) drill 44 wells within the 68 sections and having acquired and processed two miles of seismic on each other undrilled section.
Percentage of ownership interest			2.24%
Miles of seismic acquired on leases description		25 miles of seismic.
Write off value | $
Land [Member]
Oil and Gas Properties (Textual)
Percentage of ownership interest		67.00%
Land One [Member]
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Lease agreements, expiration date		Jul. 10, 2018
Number of oil and gas for leases | oil		5
Land Two [Member]
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Lease agreements, expiration date		Aug. 19, 2019
Number of oil and gas for leases | oil		3
Land Three [Member]
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Lease agreements, expiration date		Apr. 09, 2024
Number of oil and gas for leases | oil		1
Farmout Agreement [Member]
Oil and Gas Properties (Textual)
Description and terms of farmout agreement	On July 31, 2013, the Company entered into a Farmout agreement (the "Farmout Agreement") with an additional joint venture partner (the "Farmee") to fund the Company's share of the Alberta Energy Regulator ("AER") approved SAGD Project at the Company's Sawn Lake heavy oil reservoir in North Central Alberta, Canada. In accordance with the Farmout Agreement the Farmee has agreed to provide up to $40,000,000 in funding for the Company's portion of the costs for the SAGD Project, in return for a net 25% working interest in 12 sections where the Company had a working interest of 50% (before the execution of the Farmout Agreement).
Funding for project under agreement | $	$ 40,000,000
Monthly maximum payable by farmee for operating expense | $	$ 30,000
Potential option under farmout agreement for additional funding description	In addition, until December 31, 2015, as amended on November 17, 2014, the Farmee has the option to elect to obtain a working interest of 45% to 50% working interest in the remaining 56 sections of land where the Company has working interests ranging from 90% to 100%, by committing an additional $110,000,000 of financing to the development of the Company's Sawn Lake oil sands properties. As of the date of the options expiration, December 31, 2015, the Farmee did not exercise its option to acquire such interests.