Fair Value Measurements (Details) - Centennial Resource Production, LLC (Centennial OpCo) and Celero Energy Company, L.P. - USD ($) $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014	Dec. 31, 2015
Assets:
Impairment of unproved properties	$ 13,800
Recurring basis \| Level 2
Assets:
Commodity derivative asset, net	36,787	$ 21,113
Nonrecurring basis \| Level 3
Assets:
Unproved oil and gas properties	$ 5,705

Fair value as of the balance sheet date of price risk derivative assets, which includes all such derivative instruments in hedging and nonhedging relationships that are recognized as assets on the balance sheet.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 825
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 10
-Subparagraph (a)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=73719730&loc=d3e13433-108611

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