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Long-Term Incentive Plan | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2014
Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract] |
Long-Term Incentive Plan | Long-Term Incentive Plan We have a long-term incentive plan (“LTIP”) for certain of our employees and for directors of our general partner. The LTIP primarily consists of phantom units and permits the grant of awards covering an aggregate payout of 9.4 million of our limited partner units. The estimated units available under the LTIP at March 31, 2014 total 1.8 million. The compensation committee of our general partner’s board of directors administers our LTIP. Our equity-based incentive compensation expense was as follows (in thousands):
| Three Months Ended
| March 31, 2013
| Equity Method |  | Liability Method |  | Total
Performance/market-based awards: |  |  |  |  |
2010 awards | $ | 121 |  |  | $ | 73 |  |  | $ | 194 |
2011 awards | 983 |  |  | 1,147 |  |  | 2,130 |
2012 awards | 881 |  |  | 611 |  |  | 1,492 |
2013 awards | 726 |  |  | 189 |  |  | 915 |
Retention awards | 125 |  |  | — |  |  | 125 |
Total | $ | 2,836 |  |  | $ | 2,020 |  |  | $ | 4,856 |
Allocation of LTIP expense on our consolidated statements of income:
G&A expense |  |  |  |  | $ | 4,485 |
Operating expense |  |  |  |  | 371 |
Total |  |  |  |  | $ | 4,856 |
| Three Months Ended
| March 31, 2014
| Equity Method |  | Liability Method |  | Total
Performance/market-based awards: |  |  |  |  |
2012 awards | 1,022 |  |  | 924 |  |  | 1,946 |
2013 awards | 1,181 |  |  | 548 |  |  | 1,729 |
2014 awards | 904 |  |  | — |  |  | 904 |
Retention awards | 509 |  |  | — |  |  | 509 |
Total | $ | 3,616 |  |  | $ | 1,472 |  |  | $ | 5,088 |
Allocation of LTIP expense on our consolidated statements of income:
G&A expense |  |  |  |  | $ | 4,974 |
Operating expense |  |  |  |  | 114 |
Total |  |  |  |  | $ | 5,088 |
On February 3, 2014, 178,184 phantom unit awards were issued pursuant to our long-term incentive plan. These grants included both performance-based and retention awards and have a three-year vesting period that will end on December 31, 2016. On February 3, 2014, we issued 388,819 limited partner units, of which 387,216 were issued to settle unit award grants to certain employees that vested on December 31, 2013 and 1,603 were issued to settle the equity-based retainer paid to a member of our general partner's board of directors.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for compensation-related costs for equity-based compensation, which may include disclosure of policies, compensation plan details, allocation of equity compensation, incentive distributions, equity-based arrangements to obtain goods and services, deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownership plan details and employee stock purchase plan details. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 718 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6415400&loc=d3e5047-113901 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 718 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6415400&loc=d3e5070-113901 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 505 -SubTopic 50 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6406099&loc=d3e25284-112666 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 718 -SubTopic 40 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6418621&loc=d3e17540-113929 Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 718 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 4 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6415400&loc=d3e5444-113901 Reference 6: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher SEC -Name Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) -Number Topic 14 + Details
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