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Asset Under Development (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2017
Extractive Industries [Abstract] |
Schedule for Assets Under Development |
(in thousands of $) | September 30, 2017 |  | December 31, 2016 |
Purchase price installments | 883,872 |  | 653,378 |
Interest costs capitalized | 88,984 |  | 53,985 |
Other costs capitalized | 59,260 |  | 24,630 |
| 1,032,116 |  | 731,993 |
Schedule of Estimated Outstanding Payments | As at September 30, 2017, the estimated timing of the outstanding payments in connection with the Hilli conversion are as follows:
(in thousands of $) | September 30, 2017
Payable within 3 months to December 31, 2017 | 97,575
Payable within 12 months to December 31, 2018 | 95,775
| 193,350

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