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Supplemental Cash Flow Information | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2011
Supplemental Cash Flow Information [Abstract] |
Supplemental Cash Flow Information |
17. | Supplemental Cash Flow Information
| a) | The changes in operating assets and liabilities for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009, are as follows:
|  | Year Ended |  |  | Year Ended |  |  | Year Ended |
|  | December 31, 2011 |  |  | December 31, 2010 |  |  | December 31, 2009 |
|  | $ |  |  | $ |  |  | $ |
Accounts receivable |  |  | (68,914 | ) |  |  | (21,820 | ) |  |  | 64,886 |
Prepaid expenses and other assets |  |  | (8,225 | ) |  |  | 12,719 |  |  |  | 35,006 |
Accounts payable |  |  | 12,216 |  |  |  | (11,002 | ) |  |  | (2,731 | )
Accrued and other liabilities |  |  | (19,424 | ) |  |  | 65,518 |  |  |  | 26,240 |
Other long-term liabilities |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | 25,254 |
|  |  | (84,347 | ) |  |  | 45,415 |  |  |  | 148,655 |
| b) | Cash interest paid, including realized interest rate swap settlements, during the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009, totalled $279.1 million, $271.3 million and $263.1 million, respectively. In addition, during the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009, cash interest paid relating to interest rate swap amendments and terminations totalled $149.7 million, $nil and $nil, respectively.
| c) | During the year ended December 31, 2010, an unrelated party contributed a shuttle tanker with a value of $35.0 million to a subsidiary of the Company in exchange for a 33% equity interest in the subsidiary as described in Note 16(e) to these consolidated financial statements. This contribution has been treated as a non-cash transaction in the Company’s consolidated statement of cash flows.

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