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LNG production

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Line of Credit Facility, Letter of Credit Available to Project Partner

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Number Of UK Leases

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Period For Lifting Of Escrow Account

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Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents, Amount Excluded Due to Financial Covenants

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The designation of funds furnished by a borrower to a lender to assure future payments of the borrower's real estate taxes and insurance obligations with respect to a mortgaged property. Escrow deposits may be made for a variety of other purposes such as earnest money and contingent payments. This element excludes replacement reserves which are an escrow separately provided for within the US GAAP taxonomy.

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Maximum borrowing capacity under the credit facility without consideration of any current restrictions on the amount that could be borrowed or the amounts currently outstanding under the facility.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Amount of cash and cash equivalents restricted as to withdrawal or usage, classified as noncurrent. Cash includes, but is not limited to, currency on hand, demand deposits with banks or financial institutions, and other accounts with general characteristics of demand deposits. Cash equivalents include, but are not limited to, short-term, highly liquid investments that are both readily convertible to known amounts of cash and so near their maturity that they present insignificant risk of changes in value because of changes in interest rates.

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Cash and investments whose use in whole or in part is restricted for the long-term, generally by contractual agreements or regulatory requirements. For use in an unclassified balance sheet.

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RESTRICTED CASH AND SHORT-TERM DEPOSITS (Details) € in Millions, t in Millions	1 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	May 31, 2021 USD ($) t	Dec. 31, 2021 USD ($) lease	Dec. 31, 2020 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2021 EUR (€)	Dec. 31, 2020 EUR (€)	Nov. 30, 2015 USD ($)	Jul. 31, 2013 USD ($)
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Restricted cash and short-term deposit balances		$ 150,165,000	$ 163,181,000
Less: Amounts included in current restricted cash and short-term deposits		(77,337,000)	(100,361,000)
Long-term restricted cash		72,828,000	62,820,000
Minimum consolidated cash balances		$ 50,000,000
Number Of UK Leases \| lease		6
LNG Croatia
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Restricted cash and short-term deposit balances		$ 0	36,747,000
Escrow deposit			$ 36,700,000		€ 30.0
Period for lifting of escrow account (in days)			30 days
Hilli
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Letter of credit available to project partner						$ 400,000,000
Maximum borrowing capacity	$ 100,000,000
LNG production \| t	3.6
- Golar Frost facility
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Restricted cash and short-term deposit balances		600,000
Maximum borrowing capacity		54,700,000
Bank guarantee \| Discontinued operations, disposed of by sale \| Hygo Energy Transition Ltd
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Restricted cash and short-term deposit balances		1,500,000	$ 0
Bank guarantee \| LNG Croatia
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Restricted cash and short-term deposit balances		11,328,000	0
Bank guarantee \| LNG Croatia \| Euro member countries, euro
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Restricted cash and short-term deposit balances \| €				€ 9.3
Bank guarantee \| LNG Croatia \| United States of America, dollars
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Restricted cash and short-term deposit balances		$ 1,300,000
Term facility		10 years
Bank guarantee \| Hilli
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Restricted cash and short-term deposit balances	$ 60,700,000	$ 60,720,000	77,212,000			$ 305,000,000
Variable interest entity, primary beneficiary
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Restricted cash and short-term deposit balances		59,230,000	36,875,000
Interest rate swap
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Restricted cash and short-term deposit balances		0	8,864,000
Lease agreements
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Restricted cash and short-term deposit balances		782,000	868,000
UK tax lease
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Restricted cash and short-term deposit balances		16,000,000	0
Secured debt \| Line of credit \| $1.125 billion newbuild facility
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Restricted cash and short-term deposit balances		605,000	$ 2,615,000
Maximum borrowing capacity		$ 1,125,000,000					$ 1,125,000,000