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Vessels and Equipment | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2015
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Vessels and Equipment | VESSELS AND EQUIPMENT During the six months ended June 30, 2015, three newbuild LNGs, Golar Kelvin, Golar Snow and Golar Ice were delivered, at a total cost of $628.3 million. The Golar Eskimo was sold to Golar Partners in January 2015 and in February 2015, we sold the LNG carrier, Golar Viking, to Equinox at a sale price of $135.0 million resulting in a loss on disposal of $5.8 million. As at December 31, 2014, the vessel was recognised as "held-for-sale" with a net book value of $132.1 million. Vessel held-for-sale In April 2015, we purchased the Nigeria LNG Ltd vessel LNG Abuja for a consideration of $20.0 million. In June 2015, we agreed the sale of the vessel LNG Abuja for $19.0 million and the vessel was classified as "held for sale" in our consolidated balance sheet as at June 30, 2015 and an impairment loss of $1.0 million was recognised. The sale was completed on July 6, 2015.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for long-lived, physical assets used in the normal conduct of business and not intended for resale. Includes, but is not limited to, accounting policies and methodology, roll forwards, depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, including composite depreciation, accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, useful lives and method used, income statement disclosures, assets held for sale and public utility disclosures. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 210 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 1 -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.13-14) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6877327&loc=d3e13212-122682 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 205 -SubTopic 20 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51717284&loc=d3e1361-107760 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 360 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51719941&loc=d3e2921-110230 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 360 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6391035&loc=d3e2868-110229 + Details
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