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TRANSACTIONS RELATED TO THE PARTNERSHIP (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2012
TRANSACTIONS RELATED TO THE PARTNERSHIP |
Schedule of changes in net loss and ownership interest |
|  | Nine Months Ended September 30, |
|  | 2012 |  | 2011 |
Net loss attributable to Exterran stockholders |  | $ | (33,747 | ) | $ | (274,030 | )
Increase in Exterran stockholders’ additional paid in capital for sale of Partnership units |  | 49,202 |  | 123,904 |
Change from net loss attributable to Exterran stockholders and transfers to the noncontrolling interest |  | $ | 15,455 |  | $ | (150,126 | )

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