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Fixed Assets and Asset Retirement Obligations (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2016
Fixed Assets And Asset Retirement Obligations [Abstract] |
Schedule of Fixed Assets | Fixed assets consisted of the following:
| December 31,
| 2016 |  | 2015
Crude oil pipelines and natural gas pipelines and related assets | $ | 2,901,202 |  |  | $ | 2,501,821 |
Machinery and equipment | 427,658 |  |  | 414,100 |
Transportation equipment | 17,543 |  |  | 19,025 |
Marine vessels | 863,199 |  |  | 794,508 |
Land, buildings and improvements | 55,712 |  |  | 41,202 |
Office equipment, furniture and fixtures | 9,654 |  |  | 7,540 |
Construction in progress | 440,225 |  |  | 485,575 |
Other | 48,203 |  |  | 46,455 |
Fixed assets, at cost | 4,763,396 |  |  | 4,310,226 |
Less: Accumulated depreciation | (548,532 | ) |  | (378,247 | )
Net fixed assets | $ | 4,214,864 |  |  | $ | 3,931,979 |
Schedule of Change in Asset Retirement Obligation | A reconciliation of our liability for asset retirement obligations is as follows:
December 31, 2014 | $ | 14,790 |
AROs arising from our Enterprise acquisition | 158,230 |
AROs from the consolidation of historical interests in CHOPS and SEKCO | 1,988 |
Accretion expense | 4,941 |
Revisions in timing of expected settlement | 9,986 |
Settlements | (1,273 | )
December 31, 2015 | 188,662 |
AROs arising from the acquisition and consolidation of a previously held equity method investment | 20,940 |
Accretion expense | 10,800 |
Revisions in timing and estimated costs of AROs | (2,254 | )
Settlements | (4,422 | )
December 31, 2016 | $ | 213,726 |
Schedule of Asset Retirement Obligations | With respect to our AROs, the following table presents our forecast of accretion expense for the periods indicated:
2017 | $ | 11,117 |
2018 | $ | 9,408 |
2019 | $ | 8,619 |
2020 | $ | 9,176 |
2021 | $ | 9,772 |

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