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Newbuilding	9 Months Ended
	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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The entire disclosure for newbuilding contracts entered for the reporting period.

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