| **COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES Commitments and Contingencies New Plant (Details)**                    | 12 Months Ended |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------|
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| Natural Gas [Member]                                                                                   |            |
| **Supply Commitment [Line Items]**                                                                     |            |
| Qualitative and Quantitative Information, Transferor's Continuing Involvement, Third Party Commitments | 200             |
| Delaware Basin [Member] | Minimum [Member]                                                             |            |
| **Supply Commitment [Line Items]**                                                                     |            |
| Committed Barrels of Crude Oil per day                                                                 | 14,600          |

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Committed Barrels of Crude Oil per day
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| - Definition
Information about any liquidity arrangements, guarantees and/or other commitments by third parties related to the transferred financial assets that may affect the fair value or risk of interest that continues to be held by the transferor.
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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.
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No definition available.
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