OIL AND GAS PROPERTIES, BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2016

Extractive Industries [Abstract]

The costs capitalized in oil and gas properties

	2016			2015
Oil and Natural Gas:
Proved properties	$	3,751,401		$	1,734,223
Unproved properties		1,170,000			2,444,608
Facilities		1,443,060
		6,364,461			4,178,831
Less oil property impairment		(140,606	)		—
Less accumulated depreciation, depletion, and amortization		(14,309	)		(5,524	)
	$	6,209,546		$	4,173,307