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Business Combination, Closing Adjustment

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Business Combination, Consideration Transfer, Estimated Fair Value Of Contingent Earn-out Purchase Consideration

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Business Combination, Consideration Transferred, Redeemable Days After Closing

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Business Combination, Consideration Transferred, Working Capital

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Number of shares of equity interests issued or issuable to acquire entity.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Percentage of voting equity interests acquired at the acquisition date in the business combination.

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Amount of consideration transferred, consisting of acquisition-date fair value of assets transferred by the acquirer, liabilities incurred by the acquirer, and equity interest issued by the acquirer.

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The cash outflow associated with the acquisition of business during the period. The cash portion only of the acquisition price.

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SIGNIFICANT ACQUISITIONS AND DIVESTITURES (Purchase Consideration) (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands		1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended	11 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Feb. 09, 2018	Feb. 08, 2018	Jun. 30, 2018	Dec. 31, 2018	Dec. 31, 2019
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
SRII Opco Common Units issued		$ 0		$ 2,067,393	$ 0
Common stock par value (in dollars per share)				$ 0.0001	$ 0.0001
KFM Credit Facility
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Cash	$ 809,812
SRII Opco Common Units issued	433,931
Estimated fair value of contingent earn-out purchase consideration	88,105
Settlement of preexisting relationship at fair value	(5,476)
Total purchase price consideration	$ 1,326,372
Silver Run Acquisition Corporation Opco Lp \| Alta Mesa
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Percentage of ownership acquired	90.00%
Silver Run Acquisition Corporation Opco Lp \| KFM Credit Facility
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Economic interests	100.00%
AM Contributor
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Common units (in shares)			1,197,934
KFM Contributor
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Closing adjustments			$ 5,000
Common units (in shares)			89,680
Silver Run Acquisition Corporation Opco Lp
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Economic interests					47.75%
Redeemable days after closing	7 years
Silver Run Acquisition Corporation Opco Lp \| Alta Mesa
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
SRII Opco Common Units issued	$ 1,261,249
Estimated fair value of contingent earn-out purchase consideration	284,109
Settlement of preexisting relationship at fair value	5,476
Total purchase price consideration	$ 1,550,834
Common stock par value (in dollars per share)	$ 7.90
Silver Run Acquisition Corporation Opco Lp \| Alta Mesa Holdings GP, LLC
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Economic interests	100.00%
Percentage of ownership acquired	90.00%
Silver Run Acquisition Corporation Opco Lp \| KFM Credit Facility
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Common units (in shares)	55,000,000
Common stock par value (in dollars per share)	$ 7.90
Silver Run Acquisition Corporation Opco Lp \| AM Contributor \| Alta Mesa
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Common units (in shares)	138,402,398
Silver Run Acquisition Corporation Opco Lp \| Riverstone Contributor Agreement \| Alta Mesa
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Common units (in shares)	20,000,000