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Business Segment Information (Notes)

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Business Segment Information (Notes)
 6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2014
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Business Segment Information
BUSINESS SEGMENT INFORMATION
  
We have two reportable segments: LNG terminal business and LNG and natural gas marketing business. We determine our reportable segments by identifying each segment 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 are developing a natural gas liquefaction facility near Corpus Christi, Texas. The Sabine Pass LNG terminal includes existing infrastructure of five LNG storage tanks with capacity of approximately16.9 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 reporting segment consists of Cheniere Marketing, LLC (“Cheniere Marketing”) marketing LNG and natural gas on its own behalf and assisting Cheniere Investments in an effort to utilize the regasification capacity held at the Sabine Pass LNG terminal.

The following table summarizes revenues (losses), loss from operations and total assets for each of our reporting segments (in thousands): 
 
Segments
 
LNG Terminal
 
LNG & Natural Gas Marketing
 
Corporate and Other (1)
 
Total
Consolidation
As of or for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2014
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Revenues from external customers (2)
$
66,841

 
$
324


$
480

 
$
67,645

Intersegment revenues (losses) (3) (4)
734

 
1,900

 
(2,634
)
 
—

Depreciation
14,810

 
109

 
2,379

 
17,298

Loss from operations
(20,607
)
 
(14,907
)
 
(26,621
)
 
(62,135
)
Interest expense, net
(43,895
)
 
—

 
106

 
(43,789
)
Loss before income taxes and non-controlling interest (5)
(234,123
)
 
(15,189
)
 
(31,314
)
 
(280,626
)
Stock-based compensation
3,512

 
2,421

 
22,686

 
28,619

Goodwill
76,819

 
—

 
—

 
76,819

Total assets
10,861,606

 
63,020

 
934,669

 
11,859,295

Expenditures for additions to long-lived assets
809,658

 
471

 
6,315

 
816,444

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
As of or for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2013
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Revenues from external customers (2)
$
66,426

 
$
416


$
335

 
$
67,177

Intersegment revenues (losses) (3) (4)
795

 
11,898

 
(12,693
)
 
—

Depreciation
14,444

 
251

 
478

 
15,173

Loss from operations
(48,230
)
 
(21,795
)
 
(66,253
)
 
(136,278
)
Interest expense, net
(49,350
)
 
—

 
7,334

 
(42,016
)
Income (loss) before income taxes and non-controlling interest (5)
330,525

 
(21,951
)
 
(471,456
)
 
(162,882
)
Stock-based compensation
13,042

 
20,578

 
83,775

 
117,395

Goodwill
76,819

 
—

 
—

 
76,819

Total assets
8,162,729

 
62,341

 
357,160

 
8,582,230

Expenditures for additions to long-lived assets
1,084,233

 
(4
)
 
296

 
1,084,525

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2014
 
 
 
 
 
 

Revenues from external customers (2)
$
133,260

 
$
982

 
$
953

 
$
135,195

Intersegment revenues (losses) (3) (4)
1,506

 
4,074

 
(5,580
)
 
—

Depreciation
29,216

 
261

 
3,296

 
32,773

Loss from operations
(28,123
)
 
(26,501
)
 
(55,123
)
 
(109,747
)
Interest expense, net
(84,268
)
 
—

 
209

 
(84,059
)
Loss before income taxes and non-controlling interest (5)
(311,477
)
 
(26,916
)
 
(64,486
)
 
(402,879
)
Stock-based compensation
6,562

 
8,931

 
50,824

 
66,317

Expenditures for additions to long-lived assets
1,469,437

 
785

 
32,225

 
1,502,447

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2013
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Revenues (losses) from external customers (2)
$
132,487

 
$
(148
)
 
$
744

 
$
133,083

Intersegment revenues (losses) (3) (4)
1,364

 
11,305

 
(12,669
)
 
—

Depreciation
28,824

 
500

 
962

 
30,286

Loss from operations
(54,054
)
 
(42,462
)
 
(107,216
)
 
(203,732
)
Interest expense, net
(101,266
)
 
—

 
18,988

 
(82,278
)
Income (loss) before income taxes and non-controlling interest (5)
255,643

 
(42,607
)
 
(500,626
)
 
(287,590
)
Stock-based compensation
19,330

 
31,640

 
132,437

 
183,407

Expenditures for additions to long-lived assets
1,640,808

 
(4
)
 
904

 
1,641,708

 
(1)
Includes corporate activities, 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.
(2)
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 and international revenue allocations using a cost plus transfer pricing methodology.
(3)
Intersegment revenues primarily related to our LNG terminal segment are from tug revenues from Cheniere Marketing. These LNG terminal segment intersegment revenues are eliminated with intersegment losses in our Consolidated Statements of Operations.
(4)
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 and from Cheniere Marketing’s tug costs. These LNG and natural gas marketing segment intersegment revenues (losses) are eliminated with intersegment revenues (losses) in our Consolidated Statements of Operations.
(5)
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.