| **Commitments and Contingencies New Plant (Details)**                                                  | 12 Months Ended |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------|
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| Natural Gas [Member]                                                                                   |            |
| **Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]**                                                         |            |
| Qualitative and Quantitative Information, Transferor's Continuing Involvement, Third Party Commitments | 200             |
| First facilities agreement with midstream provider [Member]                                            |            |
| **Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]**                                                         |            |
| combined incremental volume commitment                                                                 | 98,100,000      |
| Second facilities agreement with midstream provider [Member]                                           |            |
| **Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]**                                                         |            |
| combined incremental volume commitment                                                                 | 77,300,000      |

| X                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
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| - Definition
Incremental volume commitment per day, for seven years to our midstream provider.
+ References
No definition available.
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| X                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| - Definition
Qualitative and Quantitative Information, Transferor's Continuing Involvement, Third Party Commitments, Volume
+ References
No definition available.
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|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| - Definition
Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.
+ References
No definition available.
+ Details**Name:**us-gaap_PropertyPlantAndEquipmentLineItems**Namespace Prefix:**us-gaap_**Data Type:**xbrli:stringItemType**Balance Type:**na**Period Type:**duration |
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| - Details**Name:**us-gaap_OilAndGasDeliveryCommitmentsAndContractsAxis=pdce_FirstfacilitiesagreementwithmidstreamproviderMember**Namespace Prefix:****Data Type:**na**Balance Type:****Period Type:** |
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