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OPERATING LEASES | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2011
OPERATING LEASES [Abstract] |
OPERATING LEASES |
10. | OPERATING LEASES
Rental income The minimum contractual future revenues to be received on time charters as of December 31, 2011, were as follows:
Year ending December 31, |  | Total |
(in thousands of $) |  |  |
2012 |  |  | 388,742 |
2013 |  |  | 342,076 |
2014 |  |  | 352,200 |
2015 |  |  | 273,964 |
2016 |  |  | 257,510 |
2017 and thereafter |  |  | 932,114 |
Total |  |  | 2,546,606 | 1
1 This excludes additional revenues relating to the amendment to the terms of the Golar Winter charter signed in January 2012. The amendment includes an increase in charter hire rates and an extension of the charter hire by five years from 2019 to 2024 contingent upon the completion of the modification work to the Golar Winter. The amendment to the charter was effected in January 2012. The long-term contract for one of the Company's vessels is a time charter but the operating costs are borne by the charterer on a pass through basis. The pass through of operating costs is not reflected in the minimum lease revenues set out above. The cost and accumulated depreciation of vessels leased to third parties at December 31, 2011 and 2010 were $1,878 million and $392 million, and $1,776 million and $297 million, respectively. Rental expense The Company is committed to making rental payments under operating leases for office premises. The future minimum rental payments under the Company's non-cancellable operating leases are as follows:
Year ending December 31, |  | Total |
(in thousands of $) |  |  |
2012 |  |  | 735 |
2013 |  |  | 342 |
Total minimum lease payments |  |  | 1,077 |
Total rental expense for operating leases was $1.0 million, $12.1 million and $19.9 million for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively. During the years ended 2010 and 2009, the Company incurred charter hire payments to third parties for certain contracted-in vessels were accounted for as operating leases. These were terminated in September 2010 or earlier.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for operating leases of a lessor. This may inlcude a general description of lessor's leasing arrangements for operating leases, including the basis on which contingent rental payments are determined, the existence and terms of renewal or purchase options and escalation clauses, restrictions imposed by lease arrangements, such as those concerning dividends, additional debt, and further leasing, rent holidays, rent concessions, or leasehold improvement incentives and unusual provisions or conditions. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 840 -SubTopic 20 -Section 45 -Paragraph 2 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6453916&loc=d3e41457-112716 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 840 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 5 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6452767&loc=d3e37051-112695 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS) -Number 13 -Paragraph 23 -Subparagraph c -LegacyDoc This reference is SUPERSEDED by the Accounting Standards Codification effective for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. This reference is included to help users transition from the previous accounting hierarchy and will be removed from future versions of this taxonomy. Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 840 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 4 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6452767&loc=d3e37045-112695 Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 840 -SubTopic 20 -Section 45 -Paragraph 3 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6453916&loc=d3e41460-112716 + Details
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