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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2014
Related Party Transactions [Abstract] |
Amounts due from and to related parties, excluding direct financing lease balances | The Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets include the following amounts due from and to related parties and associated companies, excluding direct financing lease balances (Note 6):
(in thousands of $) | June 30, 2014 |  |  | December 31, 2013 |
Amounts due from: |  |  |
Frontline Charterers | 13,424 |  |  | — |
Frontline | 6,101 |  |  | 10,016 |
UFC | 786 |  |  | 770 |
NADL | — |  |  | 2,163 |
Seadrill | 100 |  |  | 300 |
Current accounts due from associated companies | 9,104 |  |  | — |
Other related parties | 689 |  |  | — |
Total amount due from related parties | 30,204 |  |  | 13,249 |
Loans to related parties - associated companies, long-term |  |  |
SFL West Polaris | 99,171 |  |  | 100,383 |
SFL Deepwater | 109,088 |  |  | 115,222 |
SFL Hercules | 145,000 |  |  | 120,110 |
SFL Linus | 125,000 |  |  | 195,000 |
Total loans to related parties - associated companies, long-term | 478,259 |  |  | 530,715 |
Loans to related parties - others, long-term |  |  |
Frontline Ltd | 45,701 |  |  | 48,847 |
Total loans to related parties - others, long-term | 45,701 |  |  | 48,847 |
Amounts due to: |  |  |
Frontline Charterers | 229 |  |  | 815 |
Frontline Management | 1,589 |  |  | 1,011 |
Bluelot | — |  |  | 6,064 |
Corte Real | — |  |  | 6,018 |
Deep Sea | 89 |  |  | — |
Other related parties | 32 |  |  | 57 |
Total amount due to related parties | 1,939 |  |  | 13,965 |
Summary of leasing revenues earned from related parties | A summary of leasing revenues earned from the Frontline Charterers, UFC and Deep Sea is as follows:
| Six months ended |  | Year ended |
Payments (in millions of $) | June 30, 2014 |  |  | June 30, 2013 |  |  | December 31, 2013 |
Operating lease income | 13.9 |  |  | 11.0 |  |  | 24.0 |
Direct financing lease interest income | 23.2 |  |  | 28.5 |  |  | 55.4 |
Finance lease service revenue | 23.5 |  |  | 26.7 |  |  | 52.4 |
Direct financing lease repayments | 22.5 |  |  | 24.2 |  |  | 47.4 |
Cash sweep and profit share income | 14.3 |  |  | 0.1 |  |  | 0.8 |
In addition, the Company paid the following fees:
| Six months ended |  | Year ended |
Payments (in millions of $) | June 30, 2014 |  |  | June 30, 2013 |  |  | December 31, 2013 |
Frontline Charterers: |  |  |  |  |
Vessel Management Fees | 24.5 |  |  | 27.5 |  |  | 54.2 |
Management Supervision Fees | 1.6 |  |  | 1.2 |  |  | 2.4 |
Administration Services and other | 0.3 |  |  | 0.2 |  |  | 0.4 |
Golden Ocean: |  |  |  |  |
Operating Management Fees | 0.4 |  |  | 0.3 |  |  | 0.7 |
Office Facilities: |  |  |  |  |
Golar Management UK Limited | 0.1 |  |  | 0.1 |  |  | 0.2 |
Frontline Management AS | 0.2 |  |  | 0.2 |  |  | 0.3 |

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