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SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM DEBT (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2014
Long-term Debt, by Current and Noncurrent [Abstract] |
Schedule of short-term and long-term debt |
(in thousands of $) | June 30, 2014 |  |  | December 31, 2013 |
Long-term debt: |  |  |
NOK500 million senior unsecured floating rate bonds due 2014 | — |  |  | 71,854 |
3.75% senior unsecured convertible bonds due 2016 | 125,000 |  |  | 125,000 |
NOK600 million senior unsecured floating rate bonds due 2017 | 93,231 |  |  | 92,843 |
3.25% senior unsecured convertible bonds due 2018 | 350,000 |  |  | 350,000 |
NOK900 million senior unsecured floating rate bonds due 2019 | 145,388 |  |  | — |
U.S. dollar denominated floating rate debt (LIBOR plus margin) due through 2026 | 1,016,396 |  |  | 1,097,182 |
| 1,730,015 |  |  | 1,736,879 |
Less: Current portion of long-term debt | (396,963 | ) |  | (389,888 | )
| 1,333,052 |  |  | 1,346,991 |
Schedule of maturities of debt | The outstanding debt as of June 30, 2014 is repayable as follows:
(in thousands of $) |
Year ending December 31 |
2014 (remaining six months) | 156,289 |
2015 | 262,936 |
2016 | 179,591 |
2017 | 183,886 |
2018 | 658,074 |
Thereafter | 289,239 |
Total debt | 1,730,015 |

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