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LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2015
LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS. |
Schedule of long term investments |
| Ownership |  |
December 31, | Interest | 2015 | 2014
(millions of Canadian dollars) |  |  |
EQUITY INVESTMENTS |  |  |
Liquids Pipelines |  |  |
Seaway Crude Pipeline System | 50.0% | 3,251 | 2,782
Southern Access Extension Project | 65.0% | 713 | 263
Enbridge Rail (Philadelphia) L.L.C. | 75.0% | 168 | 7
Other | 30.0% - 43.9% | 69 | 58
Gas Distribution |  |  |
Noverco Common Shares | 38.9% | - | -
Gas Pipelines and Processing |  |  |
Texas Express Pipeline | 35.0% | 515 | 442
Alliance Pipeline | 50.0% | 427 | 374
Aux Sable | 42.7% - 50.0% | 344 | 311
Vector Pipeline | 60.0% | 159 | 141
Offshore - various joint ventures | 22.0% - 74.3% | 479 | 429
Other | 33.3% - 70.0% | 12 | 10
Green Power and Transmission |  |  |
Rampion offshore wind project 1 | 24.9% | 201 | -
Other | 24.9% - 50.0% | 94 | 92
Eliminations and Other |  |  |
Other | 19.0% - 21.0% | 27 | 22
OTHER LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS |  |  |
Gas Distribution |  |  |
Noverco Preferred Shares |  | 359 | 323
Green Power and Transmission |  |  |
Emerging Technologies and Other |  | 54 | 55
Eliminations and Other |  |  |
Enbridge Insurance (Barbados Oil) Limited |  | 35 | 23
Enbridge (U.S.) Inc. |  | 35 | 29
Other |  | 66 | 47
|  | 7,008 | 5,408
| 1 |  | On November 4, 2015, Enbridge acquired a 24.9% equity interest in Rampion Offshore Wind Limited.
Summary of income statement of the entity's interest in unconsolidated equity investments of joint ventures |
Year ended December 31, |  | 2015 | 2014
(millions of Canadian dollars) |  |  |
Revenues |  | 1,557 | 1,790
Commodity costs |  | (369) | (661)
Operating and administrative expense |  | (376) | (444)
Depreciation and amortization |  | (274) | (232)
Other income/(expense) |  | 4 | (1)
Interest expense |  | (67) | (84)
Earnings before income taxes |  | 475 | 368
Summary of balance sheet of the entity's interest in unconsolidated equity investments of joint ventures |
December 31, | 2015 | 2014
(millions of Canadian dollars) |  |
Current assets | 389 | 472
Property, plant and equipment, net | 6,602 | 5,214
Deferred amounts and other assets | 40 | 34
Intangible assets, net | 64 | 77
Goodwill | 885 | 742
Current liabilities | (500) | (712)
Long-term debt | (854) | (811)
Other long-term liabilities | (167) | (85)
Net assets | 6,459 | 4,931

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