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Other Financial Items (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2017
Other Income and Expenses [Abstract] |
Schedule of Other Financial Items | Other financial items comprise of the following:
(in thousands of $) | Nine months ended September 30,
| 2017 |  | 2016 |
Mark-to-market adjustment for interest rate swap derivatives | 1,056 |  | (18,699 | )
Interest expense on undesignated interest rate swaps | (3,436 | ) | (8,165 | )
Mark-to-market adjustment for equity derivatives | (3,841 | ) | 19,884 |
Impairment of loan * | — |  | (7,627 | )
Financing arrangement fees and other costs | (283 | ) | 130 |
Amortization of debt guarantee | 1,234 |  | — |
Others | 1,775 |  | (502 | )
| (3,495 | ) | (14,979 | )
* In the nine months ended September 30, 2016, we recognized an impairment charge of $7.6 million against the loan receivable from Douglas Channel LNG Assets Partnership, pursuant to the announcement of a negative FID on the related project.

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