Sale of Oil and Gas Acreage	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
Sale of Oil and Gas Acreage [Abstract]
SALE OF OIL AND GAS ACREAGE	NOTE 5 — SALE OF OIL AND GAS ACREAGE On March 31, 2011, the Company sold 2,950 net acres to Republic Energy Ventures, LLC (“Republic”) at $4,750 per net acre for total pretax proceeds of $13,767,281. Acreage sold to Republic was distributed across the Company’s undeveloped acreage. Proceeds from this transaction were used to repay $5 million to CIT in April 2011, with the remainder being used to partially fund the drilling and completion expenses for certain wells. During 2012 Republic paid Trans Energy $275,000 for the remaining 20% of the sale that occurred during July, 2010. See Note 10.

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The entire disclosure for long-lived, physical assets that are used in the normal conduct of business to produce goods and services and not intended for resale. Examples include land, buildings, machinery and equipment, and other types of furniture and equipment including, but not limited to, office equipment, furniture and fixtures, and computer equipment and software. This disclosure may include property plant and equipment accounting policies and methodology, a schedule of property, plant and equipment gross, additions, deletions, transfers and other changes, depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, net, accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization expense and useful lives, income statement disclosures, assets held for sale and public utility disclosures.

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