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SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2017
SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION |
Schedule of supplemental cash flow information |
|  | Year Ended September 30, |
|  | 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2015 |
|  | (in thousands) |
Cash payments: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Interest paid, net of amounts capitalized |  | $ | 22,936 |  | $ | 28,011 |  | $ | 11,651 |
Income taxes paid |  | $ | 3,749 |  | $ | 15,577 |  | $ | 131,128 |
Schedule of reconciliation of total capital expenditures incurred to total capital expenditures in the Statements of Cash Flows |
|  | September 30, |
|  | 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2015 |
|  | (in thousands) |
Capital expenditures incurred |  | $ | 408,106 |  | $ | 241,290 |  | $ | 1,033,241 |
Additions incurred in prior year but paid for in current year |  |  | 9,465 |  |  | 25,344 |  |  | 123,548 |
Additions incurred but not paid for as of the end of the period |  |  | (20,004) |  |  | (9,465) |  |  | (25,344) |
Capital expenditures per Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows |  | $ | 397,567 |  | $ | 257,169 |  | $ | 1,131,445 |

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