Hess Midstream LP	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
Organization Consolidation And Presentation Of Financial Statements [Abstract]
Hess Midstream LP	5. Hess Midstream LP At March 31, 2020 Hess Midstream LP (Hess Midstream), a variable interest entity that is fully consolidated by Hess Corporation, had liabilities totaling $1,971 million (December 31, 2019: $1,941 million) that are on a nonrecourse basis to Hess Corporation, while Hess Midstream assets available to settle the obligations of Hess Midstream include cash and cash equivalents totaling $3 million (December 31, 2019: $3 million) and property, plant and equipment with a carrying value of $3,029 million (December 31, 2019: $3,010 million).

The entire disclosure for a variable interest entity (VIE), including but not limited to, judgments and assumptions in determining whether to consolidate and in identifying the primary beneficiary, gain (loss) recognized on the initial consolidation of the VIE, terms of arrangements, amounts and classification of the VIE's assets and liabilities, and the entity's maximum exposure to loss.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 810
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2197479

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