Sale of Oil and Gas Properties - Additional Information (Detail) (USD $)	0 Months Ended		1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Dec. 13, 2013 acre	Jan. 24, 2013 Well	Feb. 28, 2014	Mar. 31, 2014	Mar. 31, 2013	Dec. 31, 2013	Dec. 31, 2012 Mcfe
Sale Of Oil And Gas Acreage [Abstract]
Sale of interests in non-core assets		$ 2,600,000		$ 259,543	$ 2,618,025
Overriding royalty interest on most of the wells		2.50%
Number of wellbores operator assumed		300
Production of wells Mcfe per day							800
Overriding royalty interest retained				5.00%
Lease acres owned by Company, net of curable and incurable title defects	1,114.8
Lease acres owned by Company, gross	4,650
Total lease acres excluded from sale due to incurable title defects	118.6
Total lease acres owned by company excluded from sale due to incurable title defects	39.8
Additional lease acres excluded from sale due to curable title defects	135.5
Additional lease acres owned by Company excluded from sale due to curable title defects	30.7
Expected additional amount due and payable to Company						200,000
Cash received	10,600,000			259,544		230,064
Total purchase price	36,300,000
Cash received related to curable title defects			$ 489,608