2.4.0.82101100 - Disclosure - Generaltruefalsefalse1false falsefalseD2013Q2YTDhttp://www.sec.gov/CIK0001209821duration2013-01-01T00:00:002013-06-30T00:00:001true 1xtxi_GeneralAbstractxtxi_falsenadurationfalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalse1falsefalsefalse00falsefalsefalsexbrli:stringItemTypestringfalse0General [Abstract]2false 2us-gaap_OrganizationConsolidationAndPresentationOfFinancialStatementsDisclosureTextBlockus-gaap_truenadurationfalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalseverboseLabel1falsefalsefalse00<div style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;"><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">General</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-indent:24px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;">Unless the context requires otherwise, references to “we,” “us,” “our,” “CEI” or the “Company” mean Crosstex Energy, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries. </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-indent:24px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;">Crosstex Energy, Inc</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">., a Delaware corporation formed on </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;">April 28, 2000</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">, 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.  </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;">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. </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-indent:38px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-indent:24px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">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”).</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-indent:38px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">(a) Basis of Presentation</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-indent:24px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">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 </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;">December 31, 2012</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-indent:38px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-indent:24px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">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.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-indent:38px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-indent:4px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">(b) Investment in E2</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-indent:24px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">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 initial investment of approximately </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;">$50.0 million</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> will be used to fund two new natural gas compression and condensate stabilization facilities. In May of 2013, the Company agreed to invest an additional </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;">$25.0 million</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> in E2 to fund the construction of a third natural gas compression and condensate stabilization facility.  As of </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;">June 30, 2013</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">, the Company had invested </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;">$27.8 million</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> in E2.  E2 will build, own and operate the three gas gathering compressor stations and condensate stabilization assets in Noble and Monroe counties in the southern portion of the Utica Shale play in Ohio. E2 serves as the manager and operator of these assets with expected commercial operations of the two initial facilities to start up during the fourth quarter of 2013.  The Company owns approximately </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;">93.0%</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> of E2 and has pre-determined rights to purchase the management ownership interests of E2 in the future.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-indent:24px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br clear="none"/></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-indent:12px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">(c) Comprehensive Income (Loss)</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-indent:24px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;">Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income Reclassifications.</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> In February 2013, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued ASU 2013-02, </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;">Reporting of Amounts Reclassified Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> (“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 </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;">three months ended June 30, 2013</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> and </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;">2012</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">, the Partnership reclassified cash flow hedge (gains)/losses in the amounts of </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;">$(0.2) million</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> and </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;">$0.1 million</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">, respectively, and </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;">$(0.5) million</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> and </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;">$0.4 million</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> for the </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;">six months ended June 30, 2013</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> and </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;">2012</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">, respectively, included in other comprehensive income to revenues on the condensed consolidated statement of operations.</font></div></div>falsefalsefalsenonnum:textBlockItemTypenaThe entire disclosure for organization, consolidation and basis of presentation of financial statements disclosure.Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name FASB Interpretation (FIN) -Number 46R -Paragraph 4, 14, 15 -LegacyDoc This reference is SUPERSEDED by the Accounting Standards Codification effective for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. 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