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Preoperational Assets, Noncurrent

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Tons Of Liquefied Natural Gas, Capacity

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Aggregate dividends declared during the period for each share of common stock outstanding.

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Percentage points added to the reference rate to compute the variable rate on the debt instrument.

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The percentage of ownership of common stock or equity participation in the investee accounted for under the equity method of accounting.

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Maximum borrowing capacity under the credit facility without consideration of any current restrictions on the amount that could be borrowed or the amounts currently outstanding under the facility.

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The cash outflow associated with the purchase of or advances to an equity method investments, which are investments in joint ventures and entities in which the entity has an equity ownership interest normally of 20 to 50 percent and exercises significant influence.

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Detail information of subsequent event by type. User is expected to use existing line items from elsewhere in the taxonomy as the primary line items for this disclosure, which is further associated with dimension and member elements pertaining to a subsequent event.

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Subsequent Events (Details) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands, liquefiedNaturalGasTon in Millions			1 Months Ended	6 Months Ended
	Aug. 13, 2026 $ / shares	Aug. 03, 2026 USD ($)	Jul. 31, 2026 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2026 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2025 USD ($)	Aug. 12, 2026 USD ($) liquefiedNaturalGasTon	Dec. 31, 2025 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2024 liquefiedNaturalGasTon
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Additions to equity method investments				$ 40,130	$ 19,268
Pre-operational assets				106,454			$ 46,780
Southern Energy S.A., SESA
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Additions to equity method investments				$ 39,200
Equity method investment, ownership percentage				10.00%
FLNG Esperanza \| Engineering, procurement and construction agreement, CIMC
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Tons of liquefied natural gas, capacity \| liquefiedNaturalGasTon								3.5
Subsequent event
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Common stock, dividends, per share, declared (in USD per share) \| $ / shares	$ 0.25
Subsequent event \| Engineering, procurement and construction agreement, CIMC
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Tons of liquefied natural gas, capacity \| liquefiedNaturalGasTon						3.5
Pre-operational assets						$ 2,450,000
Subsequent event \| Southern Energy S.A., SESA
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Additions to equity method investments			$ 10,200
Equity method investment, ownership percentage			10.00%
Subsequent event \| San Matias Pipeline S.A., SMP
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Additions to equity method investments			$ 4,200
Equity method investment, ownership percentage			10.00%
Subsequent event \| FLNG Esperanza \| Southern Energy S.A., SESA
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
FLNG deployment project term		20 years
Subsequent event \| Senior secured revolving credit facility \| Line of Credit \| Revolving credit facility
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Maximum borrowing capacity		$ 600,000
Debt Instrument, term		18 months
Basis spread on variable rate (in percent)		3.00%