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Exercise price per share or per unit of warrants or rights outstanding.

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FRESH-START ACCOUNTING - Adjustments Made To Successor Company Stock and Additional Paid-in Capital (Details) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands			3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Oct. 08, 2019	Oct. 02, 2019 USD ($) $ / shares shares	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($) shares	Oct. 01, 2019 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2019 USD ($)	Feb. 09, 2018 $ / shares	Dec. 31, 2016 USD ($)	Sep. 09, 2016 $ / shares
Fresh-Start Adjustment
Par value of 16,203,940 shares of new common stock issued to holders of senior note claims and existing equity interest claims (valued at $19.74per share) \| $		$ 2	$ 2	$ 16	$ 16
Fair Value of warrants issued to holder of the Existing Equity Interests \| $		7,336		7,336
Additional paid-in-capital (Successor) \| $		322,294
Equity issuance costs \| $		(2,503)	(19)	(2,503)	(3,044)	$ (11,919)
Total stockholders' equity \| $		$ 327,129	$ 316,650	$ 148,431	$ 1,197,044	$ 1,071,998	$ 30,477		$ 112,688
Common stock, shares issued \| shares		16,203,940	16,203,940
Share Price \| $ / shares		$ 19.74						$ 6.90
Annualized Rate Of Increase To The Strike Price Of Warrants Issued	6.75	6.75
Warrants exercise price (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares										$ 14.04
Measurement Input Implied Strike Price
Fresh-Start Adjustment
Warrants and Rights Outstanding, Measurement Input		19.74
Measurement Input, Initial Strike Price \| Series A Warrants
Fresh-Start Adjustment
Warrants exercise price (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares		$ 40.17
Measurement Input, Initial Strike Price \| Series B Warrants
Fresh-Start Adjustment
Warrants exercise price (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares		48.28
Measurement Input, Initial Strike Price \| SeriesC Warrants [Member]
Fresh-Start Adjustment
Warrants exercise price (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares		$ 60.45
Measurement Input, Price Volatility [Member]
Fresh-Start Adjustment
Warrants and Rights Outstanding, Measurement Input		45