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Capital Lease Obligations and Restricted Cash (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Capital Lease Obligations and Restricted Cash [Abstract]

Capital lease obligations

		December 31, 2011				December 31, 2010
		$				$
RasGas II LNG Carriers			471,397				470,752
Spanish-Flagged LNG Carrier			—				81,881
Suezmax Tankers			175,650				185,501
Total			647,047				738,134
Less current portion			47,203				267,382
Long-term portion			599,844				470,752

Commitments repayable under capital leases

Year		Commitment
2012		$	24.0 million
2013		$	24.0 million
2014		$	24.0 million
2015		$	24.0 million
2016		$	24.0 million
Thereafter		$	881.1 million

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Capital lease obligations.

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Tabular disclosure of future minimum lease payments as of the date of the latest balance sheet presented, in aggregate and for each of the five years succeeding fiscal years, with separate deductions from the total for the amount representing executor costs, including any profit thereon, included in the minimum lease payments and for the amount of the imputed interest necessary to reduce the net minimum lease payments to present value.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Topic 840

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-Publisher FASB

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification

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-Section 50

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6455398&loc=d3e45280-112737

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