General	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2013
General [Abstract]
General	General Unless the context requires otherwise, references to “we,” “us,” “our,” “CEI” or the “Company” mean Crosstex Energy, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries. Crosstex Energy, Inc., a Delaware corporation formed on April 28, 2000, is engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the gathering, transmission, processing and marketing of natural gas, natural gas liquids ("NGLs") and crude oil. The Company also provides crude oil, condensate and brine services to producers. 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. The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements include the assets, liabilities and results of operations of the Company, its majority owned subsidiaries and Crosstex Energy, L.P. (herein referred to as the “Partnership” or “CELP”), a publicly traded Delaware limited partnership. The Partnership is included because CEI controls the general partner of the Partnership (the “General Partner”). (a) Basis of Presentation The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with the instructions to Form 10-Q, are unaudited and do not include all the information and disclosures required by generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America ("US GAAP") for complete financial statements. All adjustments that, in the opinion of management, are necessary for a fair presentation of the results of operations for the interim periods have been made and are of a recurring nature unless otherwise disclosed herein. The results of operations for such interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results of operations for a full year. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Certain reclassifications have been made to the consolidated financial statements for the prior year to conform to the current presentation. These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012. The preparation of financial statements in accordance with US GAAP requires management of the Company to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the period. Actual results could differ from these estimates. (b) Investment in E2 In March 2013, the Company entered into an agreement to form a new company (“E2”) that provides compression and stabilization services for producers in the liquids-rich window of the Utica Shale play. The Company owns a majority interest in E2 and consolidates its investment in E2 pursuant to Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") ASC 810-10-05-08. The Company has committed to invest of approximately $75.0 million in E2 to fund the construction of three new natural gas compression and condensate stabilization facilities which E2 will own and operate located in Noble and Monroe counties in the southern portion of the Utica Shale play in Ohio. As of September 30, 2013, the Company had invested $49.1 million in E2. E2 will build, own and operate the three gas gathering compressor stations and condensate stabilization assets. Commercial operations of the two initial facilities is expected to occur during the fourth quarter of 2013 and the third plant is expected to be operational during the first quarter of 2014. The Company owns approximately 93.0% of E2 and has pre-determined rights to purchase the management ownership interests of E2 in the future. (c) Comprehensive Income (Loss) Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income Reclassifications. In February 2013, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") 2013-02, Reporting of Amounts Reclassified Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (“ASU 2013-02”). ASU 2013-02 requires disclosure of amounts reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive income ("AOCI") by component. In addition, an entity is required to present, either on the face of the statement where net income is presented or in the notes, significant amounts reclassified out of AOCI by the respective line items of net income but only if the amount reclassified is required to be reclassified to net income in its entirety in the same reporting period. For amounts not reclassified in their entirety to net income, an entity is required to cross-reference to other disclosures that provide additional detail about those amounts. For the three months ended September 30, 2013 and 2012, the Partnership reclassified cash flow hedge gains in the amounts of $0.4 million and $0.5 million, respectively, and $0.9 million and $0.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively, included in other comprehensive income to revenues on the condensed consolidated statement of operations. (d) Intangible Asset Impairment In August 2013, the Partnership shut-down the Eunice processing plant (the “Plant”), which is located in south Louisiana and is part of our PNGL segment, due to adverse economics driven by low NGL prices and low processing volumes which the Partnership does not see improving in the near future based on forecasted price curves. The Partnership recorded an impairment expense of $72.6 million during the third quarter of 2013 related to the intangible assets for the terminated customer relationships attributable to the Plant shut-down. (e) Goodwill Goodwill is the cost of an acquisition less the fair value of the net identifiable assets of the acquired business. The Partnership evaluates goodwill for impairment annually as of July 1, and whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount. The Partnership first assesses qualitative factors to evaluate whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount as the basis for determining whether it is necessary to perform the two-step goodwill impairment test. The Partnership may elect to perform the two-step goodwill impairment test without completing a qualitative assessment. If a two-step process goodwill impairment test is elected or required, the first step involves comparing the fair value of the reporting unit, to which goodwill has been allocated, with its carrying amount. If the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value, the second step of the process involves comparing the implied fair value to the carrying value of the goodwill for that reporting unit. If the carrying value of the goodwill of a reporting unit exceeds the implied fair value of that goodwill, the excess of the carrying value over the implied fair value is recognized as an impairment loss. There were no impairment charges resulting from the Partnership's July 1, 2013 impairment testing, and no event indicating impairment has occurred subsequent to that date. The Company had no goodwill outside of the Partnership as of September 30, 2013.

General

Unless the context requires otherwise, references to “we,” “us,” “our,” “CEI” or the “Company” mean Crosstex Energy, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries.

Crosstex Energy, Inc., a Delaware corporation formed on April 28, 2000, is engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the gathering, transmission, processing and marketing of natural gas, natural gas liquids ("NGLs") and crude oil. The Company also provides crude oil, condensate and brine services to producers. 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.

The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements include the assets, liabilities and results of operations of the Company, its majority owned subsidiaries and Crosstex Energy, L.P. (herein referred to as the “Partnership” or “CELP”), a publicly traded Delaware limited partnership. The Partnership is included because CEI controls the general partner of the Partnership (the “General Partner”).

(a) Basis of Presentation

The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with the instructions to Form 10-Q, are unaudited and do not include all the information and disclosures required by generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America ("US GAAP") for complete financial statements. All adjustments that, in the opinion of management, are necessary for a fair presentation of the results of operations for the interim periods have been made and are of a recurring nature unless otherwise disclosed herein. The results of operations for such interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results of operations for a full year. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Certain reclassifications have been made to the consolidated financial statements for the prior year to conform to the current presentation. These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012.

The preparation of financial statements in accordance with US GAAP requires management of the Company to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the period. Actual results could differ from these estimates.

(b) Investment in E2

In March 2013, the Company entered into an agreement to form a new company (“E2”) that provides compression and stabilization services for producers in the liquids-rich window of the Utica Shale play. The Company owns a majority interest in E2 and consolidates its investment in E2 pursuant to Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") ASC 810-10-05-08. The Company has committed to invest of approximately $75.0 million in E2 to fund the construction of three new natural gas compression and condensate stabilization facilities which E2 will own and operate located in Noble and Monroe counties in the southern portion of the Utica Shale play in Ohio. As of September 30, 2013, the Company had invested $49.1 million in E2. E2 will build, own and operate the three gas gathering compressor stations and condensate stabilization assets. Commercial operations of the two initial facilities is expected to occur during the fourth quarter of 2013 and the third plant is expected to be operational during the first quarter of 2014. The Company owns approximately 93.0% of E2 and has pre-determined rights to purchase the management ownership interests of E2 in the future.

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income Reclassifications. In February 2013, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") 2013-02, Reporting of Amounts Reclassified Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (“ASU 2013-02”). ASU 2013-02 requires disclosure of amounts reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive income ("AOCI") by component. In addition, an entity is required to present, either on the face of the statement where net income is presented or in the notes, significant amounts reclassified out of AOCI by the respective line items of net income but only if the amount reclassified is required to be reclassified to net income in its entirety in the same reporting period. For amounts not reclassified in their entirety to net income, an entity is required to cross-reference to other disclosures that provide additional detail about those amounts. For the three months ended September 30, 2013 and 2012, the Partnership reclassified cash flow hedge gains in the amounts of $0.4 million and $0.5 million, respectively, and $0.9 million and $0.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively, included in other comprehensive income to revenues on the condensed consolidated statement of operations.

(d) Intangible Asset Impairment

In August 2013, the Partnership shut-down the Eunice processing plant (the “Plant”), which is located in south Louisiana and is part of our PNGL segment, due to adverse economics driven by low NGL prices and low processing volumes which the Partnership does not see improving in the near future based on forecasted price curves. The Partnership recorded an impairment expense of $72.6 million during the third quarter of 2013 related to the intangible assets for the terminated customer relationships attributable to the Plant shut-down.

(e) Goodwill

Goodwill is the cost of an acquisition less the fair value of the net identifiable assets of the acquired business. The Partnership evaluates goodwill for impairment annually as of July 1, and whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount. The Partnership first assesses qualitative factors to evaluate whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount as the basis for determining whether it is necessary to perform the two-step goodwill impairment test. The Partnership may elect to perform the two-step goodwill impairment test without completing a qualitative assessment. If a two-step process goodwill impairment test is elected or required, the first step involves comparing the fair value of the reporting unit, to which goodwill has been allocated, with its carrying amount. If the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value, the second step of the process involves comparing the implied fair value to the carrying value of the goodwill for that reporting unit. If the carrying value of the goodwill of a reporting unit exceeds the implied fair value of that goodwill, the excess of the carrying value over the implied fair value is recognized as an impairment loss. There were no impairment charges resulting from the Partnership's July 1, 2013 impairment testing, and no event indicating impairment has occurred subsequent to that date. The Company had no goodwill outside of the Partnership as of September 30, 2013.