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Litigation and other contingencies (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2014

Schedule of Unconditional Purchase Obligations

		Payments due by period
millions of dollars		2015				2016				2017				2018				2019				After 2019				Total
Unconditional purchase obligations (a)			100				84				85				88				99				225				681

(a) Undiscounted obligations of $681 million mainly pertain to pipeline throughput agreements. Total payments under unconditional purchase obligations were $112 million (2013 - $95 million, 2012 - $86 million). The present value of these commitments, excluding imputed interest of $125 million, totalled $556 million.

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Tabular disclosure of unconditional purchase obligations that are not recognized as a liability on the balance sheet, including the nature and significant terms of an unconditional purchase obligation; the amount of the fixed and determinable portion of the obligation as of the date of the latest balance sheet presented in the aggregate and, if determinable, for each of the five succeeding fiscal years; the nature of any variable components of the obligation; the amount purchased under the obligation (for example, the take-or-pay or throughput contract) for the reporting period; and may include the amount of imputed interest necessary to reduce the obligation to present value.

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 440

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

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-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6394976&loc=d3e25287-109308



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-Name Accounting Standards Codification

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