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Note 19 - Cash and Cash Equivalents and Other Investments (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2020

Disclosure of Cash and Cash Equivalents and Other Investments [Abstract]

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			Year ended December 31,
(all amounts in thousands of U.S. dollars)		2020				2019
Cash and cash equivalents
Cash at banks			117,807				118,314
Liquidity funds			98,183				1,166,697
Short – term investments			368,691				269,288
			584,681				1,554,299
Other investments - current
Fixed income (time-deposit, zero coupon bonds, commercial papers)			763,697				65,874
Bonds and other fixed income			108,791				144,502
			872,488				210,376
Other investments - Non-current
Bonds and other fixed income			239,422				18,012
Others			7,660				6,922
			247,082				24,934

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