Gross amount, at the balance sheet date, of long-lived assets under construction that include construction costs to date on capital projects that have not been completed and assets being constructed that are not ready to be placed into service.

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-Publisher AICPA

-Name Accounting Principles Board Opinion (APB)

-Number 12

-Paragraph 5

-LegacyDoc This reference is SUPERSEDED by the Accounting Standards Codification effective for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009.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.

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 360

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 1

-Subparagraph (b)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6391035&loc=d3e2868-110229

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Balance Type:	debit
Period Type:	instant

NEWBUILDINGS (Details) (USD $)							0 Months Ended
NEWBUILDINGS (Details) (USD $)	Dec. 31, 2011 Vessels	Dec. 31, 2010	Dec. 31, 2011 LNG carrier Vessels	Dec. 31, 2011 LNG carrier contracts	Dec. 31, 2011 FSRU Vessels	Dec. 31, 2011 FSRU contracts	Dec. 31, 2010 Newbuildings	Dec. 31, 2011 Purchase price installments	Dec. 31, 2010 Purchase price installments	Dec. 31, 2011 Interest costs capitalized	Dec. 31, 2010 Interest costs capitalized	Dec. 31, 2011 Other costs capitalized	Dec. 31, 2010 Other costs capitalized
Newbuildings:
Newbuildings	$ 190,100,000	$ 0						$ 186,159,000	$ 0	$ 3,610,000	$ 0	$ 331,000	$ 0
Number of vessels contracted for construction	9		7	7	2	2
Construction payable							$ 1,900,000,000