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ASSET UNDER DEVELOPMENT (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2015
Extractive Industries [Abstract] |
Schedule of Asset Under Development |
(in thousands of $) | 2015 |  | 2014 |
Purchase price installments | 495,518 |  | 344,386 |
Interest costs capitalized | 4,187 |  | 443 |
Other costs capitalized | 1,317 |  | 376 |
| 501,022 |  | 345,205 |

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