Business Segments (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2015

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Summary of Operations in Different Segments

Certain financial information concerning our operations in different segments is as follows:

	For the	Exploration
	Year Ended	and			Pipeline
	December 31,	Production			Transmission			Corporate			Total
Revenue	2015	$	12,261,539		$	151,080		$	29,409		$	12,442,028
	2014	$	26,969,359		$	161,975		$	89,484		$	27,220,818
Income (Loss) from operations	2015		(8,024,877	)		46,978			(5,050,216	)		(13,028,115	)
	2014		11,187,962			(172	)		(12,537,073	)		(1,349,283	)
Interest expense	2015		18,953,219			—			6,498			18,959,717
	2014		19,776,017			—			6,586			19,782,603
Depreciation, depletion, amortization and accretion	2015		8,710,067			1,000			70,872			8,781,939
	2014		9,701,086			1,106			—			9,702,192
Property and equipment acquisitions, including oil and gas properties	2015		7,159,356			—			5,168			7,164,524
	2014		32,709,147			—			8,470			32,717,617
Total assets, net of intercompany accounts:
December 31, 2015	96,815,769					47,322						96,863,091
December 31, 2014	111,755,587					13,558						111,769,145