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Incentive Distribution Rights, Threshold Distribution Per Unit

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Limited Liability Company (LLC) or Limited Partnership (LP), Managing Member or General Partner, Units

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Limited Liability Company (LLC) or Limited Partnership (LP), Members or Limited Partners, Units

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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 equity impact of cash distribution declared to unit-holder of limited partnership (LP).

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Per unit of ownership amount of cash distributions declared to unit-holder of a limited partnership (LP).

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Percentage investment held by the managing member or general partner of the limited liability company (LLC) or limited partnership (LP).

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Percentage investment held by members or limited partners of limited liability company (LLC) or limited partnership (LP).

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EQT GP Holdings, LP (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Millions		6 Months Ended
	Jul. 25, 2017	Jun. 30, 2017
General Partner Common
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Incentive distribution rights distributed in respect of each common unit and general partner unit (in dollars per share)		$ 0.5250
EQGP
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Percentage of all incremental cash distributed (up to)		48.00%
EQGP \| Subsequent Event
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Cash distribution declared (in dollars per share)	$ 0.21
Cash distribution declared	$ 55.9
EQGP \| General Partner
Class of Stock [Line Items]
General partner interest (as a percent)		1.80%
EQGP \| Affiliated Entity \| Limited Partner Common
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Number of common units (in shares)		21,811,643
Limited partner interest (as a percent)		26.60%
EQGP \| Affiliated Entity \| General Partner
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Number of general partner units (in shares)		1,443,015