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Outstanding Oil Contracts That Are Not Designated For Hedge Accounting (Details) (USD $)
In Millions, unless otherwise specified
Dec. 31, 2014
Oil contracts [Member]  
Derivative [Line Items]  
Derivative Asset, Fair Value, Total $ 510us-gaap_DerivativeInstrumentsNotDesignatedAsHedgingInstrumentsAssetAtFairValue
/ nfx_ContractByCommodityTypeAxis
= nfx_OilContractsMember
Natural gas contracts [Member]  
Derivative [Line Items]  
Derivative Asset, Fair Value, Total 103us-gaap_DerivativeInstrumentsNotDesignatedAsHedgingInstrumentsAssetAtFairValue
/ nfx_ContractByCommodityTypeAxis
= nfx_NaturalGasContractsMember
Fixed Price Swaps With Sold Puts [Member] | Oil contracts [Member] | Year2015 [Member]  
Derivative [Line Items]  
Volume in MBbls 15,019,000nfx_Volume
/ nfx_ContractByCommodityTypeAxis
= nfx_OilContractsMember
/ nfx_ContractByMaturityTimelineAxis
= nfx_Year2015Member
/ us-gaap_DerivativeByNatureAxis
= nfx_FixedPriceSwapsWithSoldPutsMember
Collars With Sold Puts [Member] | Oil contracts [Member] | Year2015 [Member]  
Derivative [Line Items]  
Volume in MBbls 730,000nfx_Volume
/ nfx_ContractByCommodityTypeAxis
= nfx_OilContractsMember
/ nfx_ContractByMaturityTimelineAxis
= nfx_Year2015Member
/ us-gaap_DerivativeByNatureAxis
= nfx_CollarsWithSoldPutsMember
Fixed-price swaps | Oil contracts [Member] | Year2015 [Member]  
Derivative [Line Items]  
Volume in MBbls 2,275,000nfx_Volume
/ nfx_ContractByCommodityTypeAxis
= nfx_OilContractsMember
/ nfx_ContractByMaturityTimelineAxis
= nfx_Year2015Member
/ us-gaap_DerivativeByNatureAxis
= us-gaap_SwapMember
Derivative, Swap Type, Average Fixed Price 90.20us-gaap_DerivativeSwapTypeAverageFixedPrice
/ nfx_ContractByCommodityTypeAxis
= nfx_OilContractsMember
/ nfx_ContractByMaturityTimelineAxis
= nfx_Year2015Member
/ us-gaap_DerivativeByNatureAxis
= us-gaap_SwapMember
Derivative Asset, Fair Value, Total 78us-gaap_DerivativeInstrumentsNotDesignatedAsHedgingInstrumentsAssetAtFairValue
/ nfx_ContractByCommodityTypeAxis
= nfx_OilContractsMember
/ nfx_ContractByMaturityTimelineAxis
= nfx_Year2015Member
/ us-gaap_DerivativeByNatureAxis
= us-gaap_SwapMember
Fixed-price swaps | Natural gas contracts [Member] | Year2015 [Member]  
Derivative [Line Items]  
Derivative, Swap Type, Average Fixed Price 4.28us-gaap_DerivativeSwapTypeAverageFixedPrice
/ nfx_ContractByCommodityTypeAxis
= nfx_NaturalGasContractsMember
/ nfx_ContractByMaturityTimelineAxis
= nfx_Year2015Member
/ us-gaap_DerivativeByNatureAxis
= us-gaap_SwapMember
Derivative Asset, Fair Value, Total $ 62us-gaap_DerivativeInstrumentsNotDesignatedAsHedgingInstrumentsAssetAtFairValue
/ nfx_ContractByCommodityTypeAxis
= nfx_NaturalGasContractsMember
/ nfx_ContractByMaturityTimelineAxis
= nfx_Year2015Member
/ us-gaap_DerivativeByNatureAxis
= us-gaap_SwapMember