General (Details Textuals)	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2013
Limited Liability Company or Limited Partnership, Business Organization and Operations [Abstract]
Entity Incorporation, Date of Incorporation	Apr. 28, 2000
Limited Liability Company or Limited Partnership, Business Activities and Description	The Company connects the wells of natural gas producers in its market areas to its gathering systems, processes natural gas for the removal of NGLs, fractionates NGLs into purity products and markets those products for a fee, transports natural gas and ultimately provides natural gas to a variety of markets. The Company purchases natural gas from natural gas producers and other supply sources and sells that natural gas to utilities, industrial consumers, other marketers and pipelines. The Company operates processing plants that process gas transported to the plants by major interstate pipelines or from its own gathering systems under a variety of fee arrangements. In addition, the Company purchases natural gas from producers not connected to its gathering systems for resale and sells natural gas on behalf of producers for a fee.  The Company provides a variety of crude services throughout the Ohio River Valley ("ORV") which include crude oil gathering via pipelines and trucks and oilfield brine disposal. The Company also has crude oil terminal facilities in south Louisiana that provide access for crude oil producers to the premium markets in this area.
Corporation Name	Crosstex Energy, Inc