Merger of FMC Technologies and Technip (Details)	3 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2016 USD ($) shares
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Business Combination Termination Fee \| $	$ 250,000,000.0
Business Combination, Acquisition Cost Expensed \| $	$ 18,200,000
FMC Technologies
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Business Combination Stock Exchange Ratio \| shares	1.0
Technip
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Business Combination Stock Exchange Ratio \| shares	2.0

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Amount of contingent consideration in the form of a termination fee payable by either party in the event the business combination is not completed under specified circumstances under the business combination agreement.

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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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For transactions that are recognized separately from the acquisition of assets and assumptions of liabilities in the business combination, such as related to pre-existing relationships with the acquiree, this element represents the disclosure of the amount of acquisition related costs which have been expensed.

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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
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