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Investment Shares Owned, Common Stock, percent of Issued and Outstanding

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Shares exchanged for assets held for sale.

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The percentage of ownership of common stock or equity participation in the investee accounted for under the equity method of accounting.

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Amount of unrealized gain (loss) on investment in equity security measured at fair value with change in fair value recognized in net income (FV-NI).

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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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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks of a company.

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Investment in Cenovus Energy - Textual (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, shares in Millions, $ in Millions	3 Months Ended		5 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2020	Mar. 31, 2019	May 17, 2017	Dec. 31, 2019
Entity [Domain]
Schedule Of Available For Sale Securities [Line Items]
Unrealized (gain) loss on investment in Cenovus Energy	$ 1,691	$ (343)
Foster Creek Christina Lake (FCCL) [Member] \| Entity [Domain]
Schedule Of Available For Sale Securities [Line Items]
Equity Method Investment, Ownership Percentage			50.00%
Cenovus Energy Common Stock [Member] \| Entity [Domain]
Schedule Of Available For Sale Securities [Line Items]
Shares Exchange for Assets Held for Sale	208		208
Investment Owned, Common Stock, percent of Issued and Outstanding			16.90%
Investment In Equity Security Fair Value	$ 420		$ 1,960	$ 2,110
Cenovus Energy Common Stock [Member] \| Cenovus Energy Inc. [Member]
Schedule Of Available For Sale Securities [Line Items]
Cenovus Energy common share price	$ 2.02		$ 9.41
Unrealized (gain) loss on investment in Cenovus Energy	$ 1,690