Income Taxes	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]
INCOME TAXES	INCOME TAXES Due to our emergence from bankruptcy and overall restructuring, we have recorded a full valuation allowance on all U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets. We have determined that no accruals related to uncertainty in tax positions are required. The effective tax rate was 109% for the three months ended September 30, 2012, and 8% for the three months ended September 30, 2011. The effective tax rate was 10% for the nine months ended September 30, 2012, and 53% for the nine months ended September 30, 2011. Significant items that impacted the effective tax rate for each period, as compared to the U.S. Federal statutory rate of 35%, include earnings in foreign jurisdictions taxed at lower rates and the full valuation allowance which was recorded against our deferred tax assets. Further, the foreign earnings are taxed in foreign jurisdictions as well as in the U.S., since they are disregarded entities for U.S. federal income tax purposes. For the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2012, the rate is impacted by a noncontrolling interest in Rose Rock for which taxes are not provided. Deferred tax liabilities, with the exception of those related to certain long-lived assets, have been considered as a source of future taxable income in establishing the amount of the valuation allowance. These combined factors, and the magnitude of permanent items impacting the tax rate relative to income from continuing operations before income taxes, result in rates that are not comparable between the periods.

Income Taxes

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2012

Due to our emergence from bankruptcy and overall restructuring, we have recorded a full valuation allowance on all U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets. We have determined that no accruals related to uncertainty in tax positions are required. The effective tax rate was 109% for the three months ended September 30, 2012, and 8% for the three months ended September 30, 2011. The effective tax rate was 10% for the nine months ended September 30, 2012, and 53% for the nine months ended September 30, 2011. Significant items that impacted the effective tax rate for each period, as compared to the U.S. Federal statutory rate of 35%, include earnings in foreign jurisdictions taxed at lower rates and the full valuation allowance which was recorded against our deferred tax assets. Further, the foreign earnings are taxed in foreign jurisdictions as well as in the U.S., since they are disregarded entities for U.S. federal income tax purposes. For the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2012, the rate is impacted by a noncontrolling interest in Rose Rock for which taxes are not provided. Deferred tax liabilities, with the exception of those related to certain long-lived assets, have been considered as a source of future taxable income in establishing the amount of the valuation allowance. These combined factors, and the magnitude of permanent items impacting the tax rate relative to income from continuing operations before income taxes, result in rates that are not comparable between the periods.