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ASSET UNDER DEVELOPMENT (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2016
Extractive Industries [Abstract] |
Schedule of Asset Under Development |
(in thousands of $) | 2016 |  | 2015 |
Purchase price installments | 653,378 |  | 495,518 |
Interest costs capitalized | 53,985 |  | 4,187 |
Other costs capitalized | 24,630 |  | 1,317 |
| 731,993 |  | 501,022 |

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