Business Combination, Consideration Transferred, Share Exchange Ratio

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Business Combination, Fee To Be Paid By Acquired Upon Termination Of Agreement

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Business Combination, Fee To Be Paid By Acquiree Upon Termination Of Agreement

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Business Combination, Fee To Be Reimbursed By Acquired Upon Termination Of Agreement

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Business Combination, Fee To Be Reimbursed By Acquiree Upon Termination Of Agreement

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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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This element represents acquisition-related costs incurred to effect a business combination which costs have been expensed during the period. Such costs include finder's fees; advisory, legal, accounting, valuation, and other professional or consulting fees; general administrative costs, including the costs of maintaining an internal acquisitions department; and may include costs of registering and issuing debt and equity securities.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 805
-SubTopic 10
-Section 25
-Paragraph 23
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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Topic 280
-SubTopic 10
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Section 50
-Paragraph 18
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BASIS OF PRESENTATION - Narrative (Details) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended
BASIS OF PRESENTATION - Narrative (Details) $ in Thousands	Mar. 31, 2024 USD ($) segment	Mar. 31, 2023 USD ($)	Jan. 10, 2024 USD ($)
Business Acquisition, Equity Interests Issued or Issuable [Line Items]
Number of segments \| segment	2
Merger-related expenses	$ 9,000	$ 0
Southwestern Energy Company \| Chesapeake Energy Corporation
Business Acquisition, Equity Interests Issued or Issuable [Line Items]
Share exchange ratio			0.0867
Fee to be reimbursed by acquired upon termination of agreement			$ 55,600
Fee to be reimbursed by acquired upon termination of agreement			389,000
Fee to be reimbursed by acquiree upon termination of agreement			37,250
Fee to be paid by acquiree upon termination of agreement			$ 260,000