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Number Of Shares Used To Calculate Shares That May Be Granted Under The Long-Term Incentive Plan, Options And Stock Appreciation Rights

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Number Of Shares Used To Calculate Shares That May Be Granted Under The Long-Term Incentive Plan, Other Awards

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Percentage of vesting units to units granted.

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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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Unrecognized cost of unvested options awarded to employees as compensation.

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Additional share-based compensation cost recognized as a result of an occurrence of an event that accelerates its recognition.

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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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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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Amount of accumulated difference between fair value of underlying shares on dates of exercise and exercise price on options exercised (or share units converted) into shares.

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

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Period from grant date that an equity-based award expires, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Share-Based Compensation (Narrative) (Details)	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
Share-Based Compensation (Narrative) (Details)	Jun. 30, 2015 shares	Dec. 31, 2016 USD ($) Company shares	Dec. 31, 2015 USD ($) shares	Dec. 31, 2014 USD ($) shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Unit-based compensation		$ 154,000,000	$ 225,000,000	$ 199,000,000
Stock options granted \| shares		0	0	0
Performance Share Units [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Number of predetermined peer companies to compare against Devon's total shareholder's return for Performance awards \| Company		14
Comparison period of peer companies for performance awards		3 years
Stock Options [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expiration duration of options		8 years
Aggregate intrinsic value			$ 200,000	$ 9,000,000
Unrecognized compensation cost		$ 0
Minimum [Member] \| Restricted Stock Awards And Units [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Vesting period		1 year
Minimum [Member] \| Performance-Based Restricted Stock Awards [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Vesting period		1 year
Minimum [Member] \| Performance Share Units [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Percentage of vesting units to units granted		0.00%
Minimum [Member] \| Stock Options [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Vesting period		1 year
Maximum [Member] \| Restricted Stock Awards And Units [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Vesting period		4 years
Maximum [Member] \| Performance-Based Restricted Stock Awards [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Vesting period		4 years
Maximum [Member] \| Performance Share Units [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Percentage of vesting units to units granted		200.00%
Maximum [Member] \| Stock Options [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Vesting period		4 years
Reduction of workforce [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expense associated with accelerated awards		$ 60,000,000
Canadian Divestitures [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expense associated with accelerated awards				15,000,000
EnLink [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Unit-based compensation		$ 24,000,000	$ 31,000,000	$ 17,000,000
2015 Long-Term Incentive Plan [Member]
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Shares authorized for issuance \| shares	28,000,000
Number of shares used to calculate shares that may be granted under the Long-Term Incentive Plan, options and stock appreciation rights \| shares	1
Number of shares used to calculate shares that may be granted under the Long-Term Incentive Plan, other awards \| shares	3