Related Party Transactions (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2015

We have incurred indirect charges from Western for the allocation of services including executive oversight, accounting, treasury, tax, legal, procurement, engineering, logistics, maintenance, information technology and similar items. We classify these indirect charges between operating and maintenance expenses and general and administrative expenses based on the functional nature of the employee and other services that Western provides for our operations. Indirect charges from Western that we include within our general and administrative and operating and maintenance expenses were as follows:



	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
	September 30,				September 30,
	2015		2014		2015		2014
	(In thousands)
Indirect charges:
Operating and maintenance expenses	$	9,527	$	8,056	$	27,214	$	25,227
General and administrative expenses	1,882		936		6,152		4,762
Total indirect charges	$	11,409	$	8,992	$	33,366	$	29,989