Sale of Oil and Gas Properties - Additional Information (Detail) (USD $)	0 Months Ended		1 Months Ended	9 Months Ended		12 Months Ended		0 Months Ended		0 Months Ended
	Dec. 13, 2013 acre	Jan. 24, 2013 Well	Feb. 28, 2014	Sep. 30, 2014	Sep. 30, 2013	Dec. 31, 2013	Dec. 31, 2012 Mcfe	May 21, 2014 Republic PSA [Member] acre Well	Sep. 30, 2014 Republic PSA [Member]	May 21, 2014 Republic PSA [Member] Wetzel County West Virginia [Member]	May 21, 2014 Republic PSA [Member] Marshall County West Virginia [Member]	May 21, 2014 Purchase and Sale Agreement [Member]	May 21, 2014 Purchase and Sale Agreement [Member] Condition [Member]
Oil and Gas Properties [Line Items]
Sale of interests in non-core assets		$ 2,600,000		$ 15,259,668	$ 2,625,025
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		15,000,000
Total purchase price	36,300,000
Cash received related to curable title defects			489,608
Undeveloped leasehold, net acres								2,239
Percentage of over-riding royalty interest										1.50%	1.00%
Number of wells drilled in Marshall County, West Virginia								6
Percentage of net profits to be received								25.00%
Value of oil and gas properties to be repurchased								15,000,000
Deferred gain on sale of assets				$ 6,959,817					$ 6,959,816
Membership interest in purchase and sale agreement												25.00%	12.00%
Portion of future leasehold expenditures												50.00%