Gas Reserves (Details) - USD ($)		3 Months Ended
		Mar. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2015
Gas Reserves [Abstract]
Total cumulative gas reserves investment		$ 188,000,000
Encana Gas reserves investment		178,000,000
Cumulative gross investment Jonah Wells		10,000,000
Additional Jonah Wells rate per therm		0.4725
Gas Reserves, Current		16,420,000	$ 17,094,000	$ 19,112,000
Gas Reserves Noncurrent Gross		171,121,000	170,453,000	168,352,000
Gas Reserves Amortization		59,976,000	55,901,000	43,165,000
Total Gas Reserves	[1]	127,565,000	131,646,000	144,299,000
Deferred Taxes Related To Gas Reserves		28,547,000	27,203,000	28,383,000
Net Gas Reserves Investment	[1]	99,018,000	104,443,000	115,916,000
Total gas reserves investment Jonah Wells		7,600,000	8,000,000	9,200,000
Gas reserves investment Jonah Wells, net of tax		$ 3,400,000	$ 4,300,000	$ 8,300,000

[1] Our investment in additional wells included in total gas reserves was $7.6 million ($3.4 million net of deferred taxes), $9.2 million ($8.3 million net of deferred taxes) and $8.0 million ($4.3 million net of deferred taxes) at March 31, 2016 and 2015 and December 31, 2015, respectively.