Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operation, Accounts, Notes and Loans Receivable, Period

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operation, Assumed By Continuing Operations, Accounts Receivable, Current

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operation, Assumed By Continuing Operations, Accrued Liabilities, Current

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operation, Assumed By Continuing Operations, Sales Price Hold-back

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operation, Escrow Deposit, Term

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operation, Notes Receivable Consideration

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Number of Segments with Assets and Liabilities Classified as Discontinued Operations

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Amount of consideration received or receivable for the disposal of assets and liabilities, including discontinued operation.

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The designation of funds furnished by a borrower to a lender to assure future payments of the borrower's real estate taxes and insurance obligations with respect to a mortgaged property. Escrow deposits may be made for a variety of other purposes such as earnest money and contingent payments. This element excludes replacement reserves which are an escrow separately provided for within the US GAAP taxonomy.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 942
-SubTopic 210
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.9-03.10)
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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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Discontinued Operations - Additional Disclosures (Details) $ in Millions	Aug. 16, 2017 USD ($)	May 22, 2017 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($)	May 23, 2017 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2016 segment
Discontinued Operations and Disposal Groups [Abstract]
Number of segments with assets and liabilities classified as discontinued operations (segment) \| segment					2
Discontinued Operations, Disposed of by Sale \| Drilling Technologies
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Cash consideration	$ 1.0
Note receivables	$ 1.0
Notes receivable due, period	1 year
Discontinued Operations, Disposed of by Sale \| Production Technologies
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Cash consideration				$ 2.9
Escrow deposit				$ 0.4
Discontinued Operations, Disposed of by Sale \| National Oilwell Varco, L.P. \| Drilling Technologies
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Cash consideration		$ 17.0
Escrow deposit		$ 1.5
Term of escrow deposit		18 months
Drilling Technologies And Production Technologies
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Accounts receivable			$ 0.3
Sales price hold-back			1.4
Accrued liabilities			$ 1.4