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Business Segment Information (Details)

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Business Segment Information (Details)
$ in Thousands
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016
USD ($)
item
Mar. 31, 2015
USD ($)
Dec. 31, 2015
USD ($)
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]      
Number of Reportable Segments | item 2    
Revenues from external customers [1] $ 69,081 $ 68,369  
Intersegment revenues (losses) [2] 0 0  
Depreciation and amortization expense 24,089 17,769  
Loss from operations (90,559) (60,244)  
Interest expense, net of capitalized interest (76,337) (59,612)  
Loss before income taxes and non-controlling interest [3] (348,358) (335,166)  
Share-based compensation 17,525 17,991  
Expenditures for additions to long-lived assets 1,508,059 619,740  
Total assets 20,430,947   $ 18,809,053
Corporate and Other Consolidating Items [Member]      
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]      
Revenues from external customers [1],[4] 826 905  
Intersegment revenues (losses) [2],[4] (8,512) (7,120)  
Depreciation and amortization expense [4] 5,801 2,628  
Loss from operations [4] (47,463) (30,726)  
Interest expense, net of capitalized interest [4] (24,971) (16,767)  
Loss before income taxes and non-controlling interest [3],[4] (76,707) (52,121)  
Share-based compensation [4] 9,859 10,759  
Expenditures for additions to long-lived assets [4] 6,446 28,781  
Total assets 812,515   894,407
LNG terminal business [Member]      
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]      
Revenues from external customers [1] 65,551 66,802  
Intersegment revenues (losses) [2] 918 103  
Depreciation and amortization expense 17,973 14,941  
Loss from operations (12,549) (24,335)  
Interest expense, net of capitalized interest (51,366) (42,845)  
Loss before income taxes and non-controlling interest [3] (240,971) (277,655)  
Share-based compensation 2,777 3,197  
Expenditures for additions to long-lived assets 1,501,378 590,245  
Total assets 19,068,923   17,363,750
LNG and natural gas marketing business [Member]      
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]      
Revenues from external customers [1] 2,704 662  
Intersegment revenues (losses) [2] 7,594 7,017  
Depreciation and amortization expense 315 200  
Loss from operations (30,547) (5,183)  
Interest expense, net of capitalized interest 0 0  
Loss before income taxes and non-controlling interest [3] (30,680) (5,390)  
Share-based compensation 4,889 4,035  
Expenditures for additions to long-lived assets 235 $ 714  
Total assets $ 549,509   $ 550,896
Cheniere Partners [Member]      
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]      
General Partner ownership percentage 100.00%    
Cheniere Holdings [Member]      
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]      
Noncontrolling Interest, Ownership Percentage by Parent 80.10%   80.10%
Cheniere Holdings [Member] | Cheniere Partners [Member]      
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]      
Limited Partner ownership percentage 55.90%    
[1] Substantially all of the LNG terminal revenues relate to regasification capacity reservation fee payments made by Total Gas & Power North America, Inc. and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. LNG and natural gas marketing and trading revenue consists primarily of the domestic marketing of natural gas imported into the Sabine Pass LNG terminal.
[2] Intersegment revenues (losses) related to our LNG and natural gas marketing segment are primarily a result of international revenue allocations using a cost plus transfer pricing methodology. These LNG and natural gas marketing segment intersegment revenues (losses) are eliminated with intersegment revenues (losses) in our Consolidated Statements of Operations.
[3] Items to reconcile loss from operations and loss before income taxes and non-controlling interest include consolidated other income (expense) amounts as presented on our Consolidated Statements of Operations primarily related to our LNG terminal segment.
[4] Includes corporate activities, business development, oil and gas exploration, development and exploitation, strategic activities and certain intercompany eliminations. These activities have been included in the corporate and other column due to the lack of a material impact that these activities have on our Consolidated Financial Statements.