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Percentage of contract which is fee based

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Processing Capacity of Acquired Plant

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Trailers purchased

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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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Contractual interest rate for funds borrowed, under the debt agreement.

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Acquisitions (Details Textual) (USD $)	0 Months Ended	12 Months Ended	0 Months Ended		1 Months Ended
Acquisitions (Details Textual) (USD $)	Jun. 25, 2014	Dec. 31, 2014	Sep. 02, 2013	Aug. 01, 2013	Jun. 30, 2014	Sep. 28, 2012	Jun. 23, 2014 Trucks Trailers	Sep. 01, 2013	Aug. 06, 2013
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Senior notes		$ 300,000,000us-gaap_SeniorNotes
Partnership Interest [Member] \| Glass Mountain Pipeline LLC [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Equity method investment, ownership percentage		50.00%
Additional interest acquired [Member] \| Partnership Interest [Member] \| Glass Mountain Pipeline LLC [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Equity method investment, ownership percentage						25.00%
Senior Notes [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Debt instrument, interest rate stated percentage		7.50%
Crude [Member] \| Chesapeake crude oil trucking assets [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Business Combination, Provisional Information, Initial Accounting Incomplete, Adjustment, Property, Plant, and Equipment		(2,600,000)
Business Combination, Provisional Information, Initial Accounting Incomplete, Adjustment, Intangibles		12,600,000
Goodwill, Purchase Accounting Adjustments		(10,000,000)
Payments to acquire businesses	44,000,000
Trucks purchased							124
Trailers purchased							122
Estimated probability of contract renewal							95.00%
Crude [Member] \| Barcas Field Services, LLC [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Goodwill, Purchase Accounting Adjustments		(98,000)
Payments to acquire businesses			48,969,000
Trucks purchased			114
Trailers purchased			120
Estimated probability of contract renewal								50.00%
Crude [Member] \| Glass Mountain Pipeline LLC [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Equity method investment, ownership percentage		50.00%
SemGas [Member] \| Mid-America Midstream Gas Services, LLC [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Business Combination, Provisional Information, Initial Accounting Incomplete, Adjustment, Intangibles					(2,300,000)
Business Combination, Provisional Information, Initial Accounting Incomplete, Adjustment, Consideration Transferred		500,000
Goodwill, Purchase Accounting Adjustments		(10,787,000)			(10,800,000)
Payments to acquire businesses				314,001,000
Transaction costs expensed				$ 3,600,000
Length of gathering pipeline acquired				200
Net acre dedication acquired				540,000
SemGas [Member] \| Rose Valley I plant [Member] \| Mid-America Midstream Gas Services, LLC [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Processing capacity				200
SemGas [Member] \| Rose Valley II plant [Member] \| Mid-America Midstream Gas Services, LLC [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Processing capacity				200
SemGas [Member] \| Gathering and processing agreement [Member] \| Mid-America Midstream Gas Services, LLC [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Contract tenor				20 years
Percentage of contract which is fee based				100.00%
SemStream [Member] \| General Partner [Member] \| Ngl Energy Partners Lp [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Equity method investment, ownership percentage		11.78%
SemStream [Member] \| General Partner [Member] \| Additional interest acquired [Member] \| Ngl Energy Partners Lp [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Equity method investment, ownership percentage									5.36%