Related Party Transactions - Summary of Classification of Charges between Operating and Maintenance Expenses and General and Administrative Expenses (Detail) - Hess - USD ($) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2022	Sep. 30, 2021	Sep. 30, 2022	Sep. 30, 2021
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Operating and maintenance expenses	$ 17.8	$ 16.7	$ 51.4	$ 48.2
General and administrative expenses	4.0	3.7	11.5	11.5
Total	$ 21.8	$ 20.4	$ 62.9	$ 59.7

Generally recurring costs associated with normal operations except for the portion of these expenses which can be clearly related to production and included in cost of sales or services. Includes selling, general and administrative expense.

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Expenses recognized resulting from transactions (excluding transactions that are eliminated in consolidated or combined financial statements) with related party.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 850
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (c)
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6457730&loc=d3e39549-107864

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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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Amount of selling, general and administrative expenses resulting from transactions, excluding transactions that are eliminated in consolidated or combined financial statements, with related party.

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