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FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS (Tables)
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2012
FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS [Abstract]  
Fair value of financial instruments
Those financial instruments not required to be measured at fair value consist of the Company's publicly traded debt securities.  Fair values of the Company's debt securities were provided by one to two brokers who make a market in our debt securities and were measured using a market-approach valuation technique.  Fair value was determined by adding a spread based on actual trades for that security (or a trader quote where actual trades were unavailable) to the applicable benchmark Treasury security with a comparable maturity in order to derive a current yield.  The yield is then used to determine a price given the individual security's coupon rate and maturity.  Such inputs are considered "significant other observable inputs," which are categorized as Level 2 inputs in the fair value hierarchy.  Estimated fair values and related carrying values of our long-term debt securities at December 31 are presented below (in thousands):


   
2012
  
2011
 
   
Fair value
  
Carrying value
  
Fair value
  
Carrying value
 
              
5% Senior Notes, due 2017
 $445,568  $398,678  $420,019  $398,394 
7.875% Senior Notes, due 2019
  617,076   497,842   588,495   497,511 
4.875% Senior Notes, due 2022
  761,509   714,775   -   - 
5.400% Senior Notes, due 2042
  406,493   398,303   -   - 
Title XI Notes
  -   -   257,185   238,453 
   $2,230,646  $2,009,598  $1,265,699  $1,134,358