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Newbuilding | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2016
Newbuildings [Abstract] |
Newbuilding | NEWBUILDING In July 2016, on closing of the joint venture agreement with Stonepeak, we contributed our subsidiary that owns the FSRU newbuilding to Golar Power (see note 4).

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