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SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2011
SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES [Abstract] 
SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
NOTE 2 – SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) for complete annual financial statements. The year-end condensed balance sheet data was derived from audited financial statements, but does not include all disclosures required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. During interim periods, we follow the accounting policies disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010 (the “Annual Report”), filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). Please refer to the footnotes to the financial statements in the Annual Report when reviewing the interim financial results. The unaudited consolidated financial statements for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010 include all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) we believe are necessary for a fair statement of the results for the interim periods. Operating results for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2011 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full year ended December 31, 2011. These unaudited consolidated financial statements and other information included in this Quarterly Report should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in our Annual Report.

Accounting Policy Updates/Revisions

The accounting policies followed by the Partnership and the Predecessor are set forth in Note 2 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in our Annual Report. There have been no significant changes to these policies during the nine months ended September 30, 2011.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In January 2010, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2010-06, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures (Topic 820): Improving Disclosures about Fair Value Measurements (ASU 2010-06) requiring additional disclosures about fair value measurements including transfers in and out of Levels 1 and 2 and increased disclosure of different types of financial instruments. For the reconciliation of Level 3 fair value measurements, information about purchases, sales, issuances and settlements should be presented separately. This guidance is effective for annual and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2009 for most of the new disclosures and for periods beginning after December 15, 2010 for the new Level 3 disclosures. Our adoption of this update did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

In December 2010, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2010-29 – Business Combinations (Topic 805): Disclosure of Supplementary Pro Forma Information for Business Combinations. The new guidance specifies that if a public entity presents comparative financial statements, the entity should disclose revenue and earnings of the combined entity as though the business combinations(s) that occurred during the current year had occurred as of the beginning of the comparable prior annual reporting period only. The update also expands the supplemental pro forma disclosures under Topic 805 to include a description of the nature and amount of material, nonrecurring pro forma adjustments directly attributable to the business combination included in the reported pro forma revenue and earnings. The update is effective prospectively for business combinations for which the acquisition date is on or after the beginning of the first annual reporting period beginning on or after December 15, 2010. We adopted this update on January 1, 2011 and it will be applied if we enter into a business combination transaction.
 
In May 2011, the FASB issued ASU No. 2011-04, Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements in U.S. GAAP and IFRSs (ASU 2011-04). The amendments in ASU 2011-04 are the result of the FASB's and the International Accounting Standards Board's (IASB) work to develop common requirements for measuring fair value and for disclosing information about fair value measurements in accordance with GAAP in the United States and the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). ASU 2011-04 explains how to measure fair value and changes the wording used to describe many of the fair value requirements in GAAP, but does not require additional fair value measurements. This guidance becomes effective for interim and annual periods beginning on or after December 15, 2011, with early adoption prohibited. We do not expect the adoption of this ASU to have a material impact on our financial position, results of operations or cash flows.