2.2.0.7 false Organization and Basis of Presentation 0201 - Disclosure - Organization and Basis of Presentation true false false false 1 USD false false USD Standard http://www.xbrl.org/2003/iso4217 USD iso4217 0 EPU Divide http://www.xbrl.org/2003/iso4217 USD iso4217 http://www.xbrl.org/2003/instance shares xbrli 0 Units Standard http://www.xbrl.org/2003/instance shares xbrli 0 $ 2 Organization and Basis of Presentation [Abstract] 0 us-gaap_GeneralPoliciesAbstract us-gaap true na duration No definition available. false false false false false true false false false false false false 1 false false false false 0 0 false false false xbrli:stringItemType string No definition available. false 3 Organization and Basis of Presentation 1 us-gaap_OrganizationConsolidationAndPresentationOfFinancialStatementsDisclosureTextBlock us-gaap true na duration No definition available. false false false false false false false false false false false verboselabel false 1 false false false false 0 0 Note 1 — Organization and Basis of Presentation Organization Copano Energy, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company, was formed in August 2001 to acquire entities owning businesses operating under the Copano name since 1992. We, through our subsidiaries, provide midstream services to natural gas producers, including natural gas gathering, compression, dehydration, treating, marketing, transportation, processing, conditioning and fractionation services. Our assets are located in Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming and Louisiana. Unless the context requires otherwise, references to “Copano,” “we,” “our,” “us” or like terms refer to Copano Energy, L.L.C., its subsidiaries and entities it manages or operates. Our natural gas pipelines collect natural gas from wellheads or designated points near producing wells and deliver these volumes to our processing plants, third-party processing plants, third-party pipelines, local distribution companies, power generation facilities and industrial consumers. Our processing plants take delivery of natural gas from our gathering systems as well as third-party pipelines. The natural gas is then treated as needed to remove contaminants and then conditioned or processed to extract mixed natural gas liquids (“NGLs”). After treating and processing or conditioning, we deliver the residue gas primarily to third-party pipelines through plant interconnects and sell the NGLs, in some cases after separating the NGLs into select component products, to third parties through our plant interconnects or our NGL pipelines. We refer to our operations (i) conducted through our subsidiaries operating in Oklahoma, including our crude oil pipeline which we sold in October 2009, collectively as our “Oklahoma” segment, (ii) conducted through our subsidiaries operating in Texas and Louisiana collectively as our “Texas” segment and (iii) conducted through our subsidiaries operating in Wyoming collectively as our “Rocky Mountains” segment. Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements and related notes include our assets, liabilities and results of operations for each of the periods presented. All intercompany accounts and transactions are eliminated in our unaudited consolidated financial statements. Because we sold our crude oil pipeline operations in October 2009, the results related to these operations have been classified as “discontinued operations” on the accompanying unaudited consolidated statements of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009. Unless otherwise indicated, information about the statements of operations that is presented in the notes to unaudited consolidated financial statements relates only to our continuing operations. See Note 13 for additional details. The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared without audit pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Accordingly, our financial statements reflect all normal and recurring adjustments that are, in the opinion of our management, necessary for a fair presentation of our results of operations for the interim periods. Certain information and notes normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. However, our management believes that the disclosures are adequate to make the information presented not misleading. In the preparation of these financial statements, we evaluated subsequent events through the issuance date of the financial statements. These interim financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto contained in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, as amended, for the year ended December 31, 2009.  Note 1 — Organization and Basis of Presentation Organization Copano Energy, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company, was formed false false false us-types:textBlockItemType textblock Description containing the entire organization, consolidation and basis of presentation of financial statements disclosure. 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