Organization

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation Of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Organization, Consolidation, Basis of Presentation, Business Description and Accounting Policies [Text Block]

NOTE 1 – ORGANIZATION

On September 21, 2009, Universal Holdings, Inc. (“Universal”), a Nevada corporation, completed the acquisition of Coronado Acquisitions, LLC (“Coronado”). Under the terms of the acquisition, Coronado was merged into Universal. On October 12, 2009, Universal changed its name to Recovery Energy, Inc. (“Recovery”, “Recovery Energy”, “we”, “our”, and the “Company”). The Agreement was accounted for as a reverse acquisition with Coronado being treated as the acquirer for accounting purposes. Accordingly, the financial statements of Coronado have been adopted as the historical financial statements of Recovery.

The Company is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company focused on the Denver-Julesburg Basin (“DJ Basin”) where it holds 130,000 net acres.  Recovery drills for, operates and produces oil and natural gas wells through the Company’s land holdings located in Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska.

All common stock share information is retroactively adjusted for the effect of a 4:1 reverse stock split that was effective October 19, 2011.