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Organization and Summary of Significant Agreements (Details) mi in Thousands, bbl in Thousands			1 Months Ended			12 Months Ended
	Jan. 07, 2016 shares	Mar. 07, 2014 shares	May 31, 2015	Apr. 30, 2015	Feb. 28, 2015	Dec. 31, 2017 Bcf / d plant fractionator mi shares bbl	Dec. 31, 2015 shares
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Number of miles of pipeline \| mi						11
Number of natural gas processing plants \| plant						20
Amount of processing capacity \| Bcf / d						4.8
Number of fractionators \| fractionator						7
Capacity of fractionators per day, barrels \| bbl						260
EnLink Midstream Partners GP, LLC
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Ownership interest				100.00%		100.00%
Membership interest in the General Partner						0.40%
EnLink Midstream Holdings, LP
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Ownership interest						21.70%
Ownership interest, shares (in shares)						88,528,451
EMI \| EnLink Midstream Partners GP, LLC
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Ownership interest						5.00%
Acacia \| EnLink Midstream Partners GP, LLC
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Equity interest issued or issuable, number of shares (in shares)							68,200,000
Related party transaction, ownership interest transferred			25.00%		25.00%
Acacia \| EnLink Midstream Holdings, LP
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Ownership interest		50.00%
Acacia \| EnLink Midstream Partners, LP
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Ownership interest						16.70%
Net Devon Investment
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Ownership interest		64.00%
EnLink Midstream Partners, LP \| EnLink Midstream Partners GP, LLC
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Cumulative percentage ownership after all transactions						100.00%
EnLink Midstream Partners, LP \| EnLink Midstream Holdings, LP
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Ownership interest							50.00%
ENLC \| EnLink Midstream Partners, LP
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Ownership interest						21.70%
Common Unit
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Equity interest issued or issuable, number of shares (in shares)		115,495,669
EnLink Oklahoma T.O.
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Acquired voting interest	16.10%					16.10%
EnLink Oklahoma T.O. \| EnLink Midstream Partners, LP
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Acquired voting interest	83.90%
EnLink Oklahoma T.O. \| Common Unit
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Equity interest issued or issuable, number of shares (in shares)	15,564,009