Business Acquisition, Percent of Assets Acquired

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- Definition

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

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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=35744584&loc=d3e6927-128479

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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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- Definition

Percentage of voting equity interests acquired at the acquisition date in the business combination.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 805
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (c)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=79982066&loc=d3e1392-128463

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The cash outflow associated with the acquisition of business during the period. The cash portion only of the acquisition price.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 13
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=98514028&loc=d3e3213-108585

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The cash outflow associated with the acquisition of a business, net of the cash acquired from the purchase.

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Acquisitions (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands			12 Months Ended
Acquisitions (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Jul. 27, 2016	Jan. 27, 2015	Dec. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Payments for acquisition, net of cash acquired			$ 0	$ 7,863	$ 0
International Polymerics, Inc
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Percent of membership interests acquired	100.00%
Payments for acquisition, net of cash acquired	$ 7,900
Common stock, shares issued (in shares)	247,764
Artificial Lift
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Common stock, shares issued (in shares)		60,024
Percent of assets acquired		100.00%
Consideration transferred, cash payments		$ 1,300