Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

Business Segment Information

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Business Segment Information
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Business Segment Information
BUSINESS SEGMENT INFORMATION
 
We have two operating business segments: LNG terminal business and LNG and natural gas marketing business. We determine our reporting units by identifying each unit that engaged in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses, had operating results regularly reviewed by the entities' chief operating decision maker for purposes of resource allocation and performance assessment, and had discrete financial information.

We own and operate the Sabine Pass LNG terminal located on the Sabine Pass shipping channel in Louisiana through our ownership interest in and management agreements with Cheniere Partners. We own 100% of the general partner interest in Cheniere Partners and 84.5% of Cheniere Holdings, which owns a 55.9% limited partner interest in Cheniere Partners. We own two other LNG terminals that are in various stages of development at the following locations: Corpus Christi LNG, 100% owned, near Corpus Christi, Texas; and Creole Trail LNG, 100% owned, at the mouth of the Calcasieu Channel in central Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The Sabine Pass LNG terminal includes existing infrastructure of five LNG storage tanks with capacity of approximately 16.9 Bcfe, two docks that can accommodate vessels with capacity of up to 265,000 cubic meters, vaporizers with regasification capacity of approximately 4.0 Bcf/d and pipeline facilities interconnecting the Sabine Pass LNG terminal with a number of large interstate pipelines. Cheniere Partners is developing and constructing the Sabine Pass Liquefaction Project at the Sabine Pass LNG terminal adjacent to the existing regasification facilities.
 
Our LNG and natural gas marketing business segment consists of Cheniere Marketing marketing LNG and natural gas on its own behalf and assisting Cheniere Investments in an effort to utilize the receiving capacity held at the Sabine Pass LNG terminal.

The following table summarizes revenues, net income (loss) from operations and total assets for each of our operating segments (in thousands): 
 
Segments
 
LNG Terminal
 
LNG & Natural Gas Marketing
 
Corporate and Other (1)
 
Total
Consolidation
As of or for the Year Ended December 31, 2013
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Revenues (losses) (2)
$
268,392

 
$
45,291

 
$
(46,470
)
 
$
267,213

Intersegment revenues (losses) (3) (4)
2,983

 
45,049

 
(48,032
)
 

Depreciation, depletion and amortization
58,099

 
941

 
2,169

 
61,209

Non-cash compensation
29,805

 
46,293

 
207,783

 
283,881

Loss from operations
(121,698
)
 
(47,966
)
 
(159,322
)
 
(328,986
)
Interest expense, net
(182,003
)
 

 
3,603

 
(178,400
)
Loss before income taxes and non-controlling interest (5)
(350,734
)
 
(48,851
)
 
(154,838
)
 
(554,423
)
Goodwill
76,819

 

 

 
76,819

Total assets
8,663,795

 
62,327

 
947,115

 
9,673,237

Expenditures for additions to long-lived assets
3,222,454

 
39

 
9,778

 
3,232,271

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
As of or for the Year Ended December 31, 2012
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Revenues (losses)
$
274,037

 
$
4,182

 
$
(11,999
)
 
$
266,220

Intersegment revenues (losses) (3) (4)
8,137

 
5,354

 
(13,491
)
 

Depreciation, depletion and amortization
62,547

 
2,067

 
1,793

 
66,407

Non-cash compensation
7,539

 
11,485

 
42,023

 
61,047

Income (loss) from operations
5,176

 
(35,988
)
 
(45,020
)
 
(75,832
)
Interest expense, net
(218,143
)
 
12

 
17,320

 
(200,811
)
Loss before income taxes and non-controlling interest (5)
(255,000
)
 
(36,022
)
 
(54,615
)
 
(345,637
)
Goodwill
76,819

 

 

 
76,819

Total assets
4,411,396

 
62,797

 
164,892

 
4,639,085

Expenditures for additions to long-lived assets
1,233,577

 
(374
)
 
1,512

 
1,234,715

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
As of or for the Year Ended December 31, 2011
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Revenues
$
274,322

 
$
13,554

 
$
2,568

 
$
290,444

Intersegment revenues (losses)
14,655

 
(13,731
)
 
(924
)
 

Depreciation, depletion and amortization
60,062

 
1,105

 
2,238

 
63,405

Non-cash compensation
2,646

 
9,258

 
14,460

 
26,364

Income (loss) from operations
119,337

 
(28,380
)
 
(32,811
)
 
58,146

Interest expense, net
(219,323
)
 

 
(40,070
)
 
(259,393
)
Loss before income taxes and non-controlling interest (5)
(102,215
)
 
(28,287
)
 
(72,676
)
 
(203,178
)
Goodwill
76,819

 

 

 
76,819

Total assets
2,413,284

 
67,792

 
434,249

 
2,915,325

Expenditures for additions to long-lived assets
9,875

 
16

 
732

 
10,623

 
(1)
Includes corporate activities, oil and gas exploration, development and exploitation activities and certain intercompany eliminations. Our oil and gas exploration, development and exploitation operating 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.
(2)
Substantially all of the LNG terminal revenues relate to regasification capacity reservation fee payments made by Total and Chevron. LNG and natural gas marketing and trading revenue consists primarily of the domestic marketing of natural gas imported into the Sabine Pass LNG terminal and international revenue allocations using a cost plus transfer pricing methodology.
(3)
Intersegment revenues related to our LNG terminal segment are primarily from tug revenues from Cheniere Marketing and the receipt of 80% of gross margins earned by Cheniere Marketing in an effort to utilize the reserved capacity at the Sabine Pass LNG terminal of Cheniere Investments under its terminal use rights assignment and agreement ("TURA") pursuant to which Cheniere Investments has the right to use Sabine Pass Liquefaction's reserved capacity at the Sabine Pass LNG terminal under Sabine Pass Liquefaction's TUA in the year ended December 31, 2013 and 2012. These LNG terminal segment intersegment revenues are eliminated with intersegment expenses in our Consolidated Statements of Operations.
(4)
Intersegment revenues (losses) related to our LNG and natural gas marketing segment are primarily from Cheniere Marketing's tug costs and the payment of 80% of gross margins earned by Cheniere Marketing in an effort to utilize the reserved capacity at the Sabine Pass LNG terminal of Cheniere Investments under its TURA in the year ended December 31, 2013 and 2012. These LNG terminal segment intersegment costs are eliminated with intersegment revenues in our Consolidated Statements of Operations.
(5)
Items to reconcile loss from operations and income (loss) before income taxes and non-controlling interest include consolidated other income (expense) amounts as presented on the statement of operations primarily related to our LNG terminal segment and intercompany debt extinguishments that are eliminated in consolidation.