Contingencies - Deepwater Horizon Events (Detail) (USD $)	Sep. 30, 2011 Macondo Exploration Well [Member]	Mar. 31, 2014 Deepwater Horizon [Member] BP indemnification liability [Member]
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Anadarko's nonoperated interest	25.00%
Loss contingency accrual		$ 0

Amount of loss contingency liability.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 450

-SubTopic 20

-Section 50

-Paragraph 1

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=25496072&loc=d3e14326-108349

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