Assets Held for Sales, Divestitures and Discontinued Operations Assets Held for Sale, Divestitures and Discontinued Operations (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2013

Discontinued Operations and Disposal Groups [Abstract]

Distributions Made to Managing General Partner and Investor Partners [Table Text Block]

In July 2013, this Partnership distributed a portion of the proceeds received for the Piceance Basin asset divestiture to the Managing General Partner and Investor Partners as follows:

Distributed to:	Amount
Managing General Partner	$	47,000
Investor Partners	188,000
Total	$	235,000

Schedule of Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations, Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures [Table Text Block]

The following table presents statement of operations data related to this Partnership's discontinued operations for the Piceance Basin divestiture:

	Three Months Ended September 30,			Nine Months Ended September 30,
Statement of Operations - Discontinued Operations	2012			2013			2012
Revenues:
Crude oil, natural gas and NGLs sales	$	26,222		$	80,070		$	91,992
Operating costs and expenses:
Crude oil, natural gas and NGLs production costs	37,472			50,934			139,116
Depreciation, depletion and amortization	9,886			6,356			31,477
Direct costs - general and administrative expense	—			13,774			—
Accretion of asset retirement obligations	967			1,670			2,857
Gain on sale of crude oil and natural gas properties	—			(201,254		)	—
Total operating costs and expenses	48,325			(128,520		)	173,450
Income (loss) from discontinued operations	$	(22,103	)	$	208,590		$	(81,458	)

While the reclassification of revenues and expenses related to discontinued operations for the prior period had no impact upon previously reported net earnings, the statement of operations table presents the revenues and expenses that were reclassified from the specified statement of operations line items to discontinued operations.