Variable Interest Entity Arrangements (Narrative) (Details) - USD ($)		12 Months Ended
Apr. 03, 2018	Dec. 31, 2019
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Date Involvement Began	Apr. 03, 2018
Superior Pipeline Company, L.L.C. [Member]
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Date Involvement Began		Apr. 03, 2018
Methodology for Determining Whether Entity is Primary Beneficiary		The two variable interests applicable to Unit include the 50% equity investment in Superior and the MSA. The MSA houses the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact Superior's operating performance. The MSA is a separate variable interest. Unit through the MSA has the power to direct Superior’s most significant activities; reciprocally the equity investors lack the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact the entity’s economic performance. Because of this, Unit is considered the primary beneficiary.
Lack of Recourse		Superior's creditors have no recourse to our general credit.
Superior Pipeline Company, L.L.C. [Member] \| SPC Midstream Operating, L.L.C. [Member]
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Monthly service fee		$ 255,970
Superior Pipeline Company, L.L.C. [Member] \| SP Investor Holdings, LLC [Member]
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Ownership percentage		50.00%

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The degree to which creditors (or beneficial interest holders) of the Variable Interest Entity (VIE) have recourse against the general credit of the primary beneficiary.

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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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Description of significant judgments and assumptions made by a reporting entity in determining whether it must: (1) consolidate a Variable Interest Entity (VIE) or (2) disclose information about its involvement in a VIE, and may include discussion of the significant factors considered and judgments made in determining that the power to direct the activities of a VIE that most significantly impact the VIE's economic performance is shared among multiple parties such that no one party is the primary beneficiary (as defined) or information about the types of involvements the reporting entity considers significant, supplemented with information about how the significant involvements were considered in determining whether the reporting entity is the primary beneficiary.

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Percentage of the Variable Interest Entity's (VIE) voting interest owned by (or beneficial interest in) the reporting entity (directly or indirectly).

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Date the relationship between reporting entity and the Variable Interest Entity (VIE) began, in CCYY-MM-DD format.

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