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Percentage Of Potential Bonus Payments To Executives

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Plan of Reorganization, Percentage of Common Stock Issued in Reorganization to Existing Shareholders

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Retention Award Payout, Number Of Days

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Options, Grants in Period, Gross, Value

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Supplemental Unemployment Benefits, Severance Benefits, Salary Pay Out Rate

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Represents the expense recognized during the period arising from equity-based compensation arrangements (for example, shares of stock, unit, stock options or other equity instruments) with employees, directors and certain consultants qualifying for treatment as employees.

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The compensation expense recognized during the period pertaining to the deferred compensation arrangement.

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Represents the compensation cost capitalized during the period arising from equity-based compensation arrangements (for example, shares of stock, units, stock options or other equity instruments) with employees, directors and certain consultants qualifying for treatment as employees.

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Unrecognized cost of unvested share-based compensation awards.

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The aggregate amount of expenditures for salaries, wages, profit sharing and incentive compensation, and other employee benefits, including equity-based compensation, and pension and other postretirement benefit expense.

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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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The number of grants made during the period on other than stock (or unit) option plans (for example, phantom stock or unit plan, stock or unit appreciation rights plan, performance target plan).

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The weighted average fair value of nonvested awards on equity-based plans excluding option plans (for example, phantom stock or unit plan, stock or unit appreciation rights plan, revenue or profit achievement stock award plan) for which the employer is contingently obligated to issue equity instruments or transfer assets to an employee who has not yet satisfied service or performance criteria necessary to gain title to proceeds from the sale of the award or underlying shares or units.

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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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The maximum number of shares (or other type of equity) originally approved (usually by shareholders and board of directors), net of any subsequent amendments and adjustments, for awards under the equity-based compensation plan. As stock or unit options and equity instruments other than options are awarded to participants, the shares or units remain authorized and become reserved for issuance under outstanding awards (not necessarily vested).

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Gross number of share options (or share units) granted during the period.

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Intrinsic value of equity-based compensation awards outstanding. Excludes stock and unit options.

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SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION AND EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS (Details) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands				1 Months Ended	2 Months Ended	3 Months Ended		7 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
	Jul. 25, 2017 day	Feb. 28, 2017	Jan. 10, 2017 USD ($) instalment	Mar. 31, 2017 shares	Feb. 28, 2017 USD ($) shares	Sep. 30, 2017 USD ($) $ / shares	Sep. 30, 2016 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2017 USD ($) $ / shares	Sep. 30, 2016 USD ($)	Mar. 01, 2017 USD ($) shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Percentage of common stock issued in reorganization to existing shareholders		5.00%
Percentage of warrants issued in reorganization (up to)		15.00%
Number of days before retention award payout (in days) \| day	30
Incentive compensation expense						$ 4,646		$ 4,646
2017 Annual Incentive Compensation Plan
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Incentive compensation expense						4,100
Stone Energy Corporation Retention Award Agreement
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Incentive compensation expense						$ 500
Stone Energy Corporation Executive Severance Plan
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Percentage of executive officer's annual bonus opportunity	100.00%
Restricted Stock
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Award vesting period						3 months
Per share grant date fair value (in usd per share) \| $ / shares						$ 26.95		$ 26.95
Stock Compensation Plan \| 2017 Incentive Plan
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
The maximum number of shares that may be issued (in shares) \| shares										2,614,379
Restricted stock units
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Unrecognized compensation cost						$ 900		$ 900
Award vesting period						7 months
Executives \| Restricted Stock
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Unrecognized compensation cost						$ 14		$ 14
Board of Directors \| Restricted Stock
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Restricted stock units granted (in shares) \| shares				62,137
Restricted stock units aggregate grant date fair value										$ 1,700
Predecessor
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Stock compensation capitalized into oil and gas properties					$ 600
Incentive compensation expense					$ 2,008		$ 2,160		$ 11,809
Predecessor \| Board of Directors
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Shares granted during period (in shares) \| shares					10,404
Aggregate grant date value of such stock					$ 69
Minimum \| Stone Energy Corporation Executive Severance Plan
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Lump sum cash payment salary payout rate	1.0
Maximum \| Stone Energy Corporation Executive Severance Plan
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Lump sum cash payment salary payout rate	1.5
Maximum \| Executives \| 2016 Incentive Plan \| Deferred Bonus
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Deferred compensation arrangement compensation expense			$ 2,000
Deferred compensation arrangement, number of installments \| instalment			2
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses \| Predecessor
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Salaries, general and administrative expenses					$ 1,700