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Business Acquisition, Warrants Conversion Ratio by Acquiree

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Number Of Floaters Acquired

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Number of shares of equity interests issued or issuable to acquire entity.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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This element represents acquisition-related costs incurred to effect a business combination which costs have been expensed during the period. Such costs include finder's fees; advisory, legal, accounting, valuation, and other professional or consulting fees; general administrative costs, including the costs of maintaining an internal acquisitions department; and may include costs of registering and issuing debt and equity securities.

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In a business combination in which the amount of net identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed exceeds the aggregate consideration transferred or to be transferred (as defined), this element represents the amount of gain recognized by the entity.

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The cash inflow to dispose of long-lived, physical assets and mineral interests in oil and gas properties used for normal oil and gas operations.

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Acquisitions - Additional Information (Details) shares in Thousands, $ in Thousands		1 Months Ended		3 Months Ended		8 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
	Apr. 15, 2021 USD ($) shares	Jun. 30, 2021 USD ($)	Feb. 05, 2021 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2021 USD ($) floater	Sep. 30, 2020 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2021 USD ($) floater	Sep. 30, 2020 USD ($)
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Number of floaters acquired \| floater				7		7
Number of floaters sold \| floater				2		2
Merger and integration costs			$ 0	$ 5,033	$ 0	$ 13,786	$ 0
Gain on bargain purchase			$ 0			64,479	$ 0
Pacific Drilling
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Business acquisition, membership interest conversion ratio	6.366
Business acquisition, warrants conversion ratio	1.553
Number of shares received by acquiree (in shares) \| shares	16,600
Proceeds from sale of floaters		$ 29,700
Merger and integration costs				$ 5,000		$ 13,800
Gain on bargain purchase	$ 64,479
Pacific Drilling \| Pacific Drilling \| Noble Corp
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Ownership percentage at closing of Merger	24.90%