Accounts Receivable Securitization	12 Months Ended
Accounts Receivable Securitization	Dec. 31, 2014
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE SECURITIZATION: [Abstract]
Accounts Receivable Securitization	ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE SECURITIZATION: CONSOL Energy and certain of its U.S. subsidiaries are party to a trade accounts receivable facility with financial institutions for the sale on a continuous basis of eligible trade accounts receivable. The receivables facility expires in March 2015. It allows CONSOL Energy to receive, on a revolving basis, up to $125,000, subject to receivables eligibility criteria. CONSOL Energy may also issue letters of credit against the facility, which decreases the amount available to draw upon. CNX Funding Corporation, a wholly owned, special purpose, bankruptcy-remote subsidiary, buys and sells eligible trade receivables generated by certain subsidiaries of CONSOL Energy. Under the receivables facility, CONSOL Energy and certain subsidiaries, irrevocably and without recourse, sell all of their eligible trade accounts receivable to CNX Funding Corporation, who in turn sells these receivables to financial institutions and their affiliates, while maintaining a subordinated interest in a portion of the pool of trade receivables. This retained interest, which is included in Accounts and Notes Receivable Trade in the Consolidated Balance Sheets, is recorded at fair value. Due to a short average collection cycle for such receivables, CONSOL Energy's collection experience history and the composition of the designated pool of trade accounts receivable that are part of this program, the fair value of its retained interest approximates the total amount of the designated pool of accounts receivable. CONSOL Energy will continue to service the sold trade receivables for the financial institutions for a fee based upon market rates for similar services. In accordance with the Transfers and Servicing Topic of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification, CONSOL Energy records transactions under the securitization facility as secured borrowings on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. The pledge of collateral is reported as Accounts Receivable - Securitized and the borrowings are classified as debt in Borrowings under Securitization Facility. At December 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, eligible accounts receivable totaled $77,800 and $115,000, respectively. After taking into account outstanding letters of credit of $60,230 and $66,054, there remained $17,570 and $48,945 in subordinated retained interest at December 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively. CONSOL Energy management believes that the letters of credit will expire without being funded, and therefore the commitments will not have a material adverse effect on the Company's financial condition. No amounts related to these financial guarantees and letters of credit are recorded as liabilities on the financial statements. There were no borrowings under the securitization facility recorded on the Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 2014 or December 31, 2013.

The entire disclosure for a transferor's continuing involvement in financial assets that it has transferred in a securitization or asset-backed financing arrangement, the nature of any restrictions on assets reported by an entity in its statement of financial position that relate to a transferred financial asset (including the carrying amounts of such assets), how servicing assets and servicing liabilities are reported, and (for securitization or asset-backed financing arrangements accounted for as sales) when a transferor has continuing involvement with the transferred financial assets and transfers of financial assets accounted for as secured borrowings, how the transfer of financial assets affects an entity's financial position, financial performance, and cash flows.

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