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Revenues

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Revenues
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2022
Revenue from Contract with Customer [Abstract]  
Revenues REVENUES
The following table represents a disaggregation of revenue earned (in millions):
Three Months Ended September 30, Nine Months Ended September 30,
2022 2021 2022 2021
Revenues from contracts with customers
LNG revenues $ 3,133  $ 1,791  $ 8,576  $ 5,057 
LNG revenues—affiliate 1,376  453  3,268  878 
LNG revenues—related party —  —  4  — 
Regasification revenues 455  68  591  202 
Other revenues 15  12  45  39 
Total revenues from contracts with customers 4,979  2,324  12,484  6,176 
Net derivative gain (loss) (1) (3) —  1  — 
Total revenues $ 4,976  $ 2,324  $ 12,485  $ 6,176 
(1)See Note 7—Derivative Instruments for additional information about our derivatives.
Contract Assets and Liabilities

The following table shows our contract assets, net of current expected credit losses, which are classified as contract assets and other non-current assets, net on our Consolidated Balance Sheets (in millions):
September 30, December 31,
2022 2021
Contract assets, net of current expected credit losses $ 388  $ 1 
The following table reflects the changes in our contract liabilities, which we classify as deferred revenue on our Consolidated Balance Sheets (in millions):
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022
Deferred revenue, beginning of period $ 155 
Cash received but not yet recognized in revenue 162 
Revenue recognized from prior period deferral (155)
Deferred revenue, end of period $ 162 

The following table reflects the changes in our contract liabilities to affiliate, which we classify as deferred revenue—affiliate and other non-current liabilities—affiliate on our Consolidated Balance Sheets (in millions):
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022
Deferred revenue—affiliate, beginning of period $ 3 
Cash received but not yet recognized in revenue 6 
Revenue recognized from prior year end deferral (3)
Deferred revenue—affiliate, end of period $ 6 

Transaction Price Allocated to Future Performance Obligations

Because many of our sales contracts have long-term durations, we are contractually entitled to significant future consideration which we have not yet recognized as revenue. The following table discloses the aggregate amount of the transaction price that is allocated to performance obligations that have not yet been satisfied:
September 30, 2022 December 31, 2021
Unsatisfied
Transaction Price
(in billions)		 Weighted Average Recognition Timing (years) (1) Unsatisfied
Transaction Price
(in billions)		 Weighted Average Recognition Timing (years) (1)
LNG revenues $ 51.6  8 $ 49.3  9
LNG revenues—affiliate 2.0  2 2.1  3
Regasification revenues 1.6  2 1.9  4
Total revenues $ 55.2  $ 53.3 
(1)The weighted average recognition timing represents an estimate of the number of years during which we shall have recognized half of the unsatisfied transaction price.

We have elected the following exemptions which omit certain potential future sources of revenue from the table above:
(1)We omit from the table above all performance obligations that are part of a contract that has an original expected duration of one year or less.
(2)The table above excludes substantially all variable consideration under our SPAs and TUAs. We omit from the table above all variable consideration that is allocated entirely to a wholly unsatisfied performance obligation or to a wholly unsatisfied promise to transfer a distinct good or service that forms part of a single performance obligation when that performance obligation qualifies as a series. The amount of revenue from variable fees that is not included in the transaction price will vary based on the future prices of Henry Hub throughout the contract terms, to the extent customers elect to take delivery of their LNG, and adjustments to the consumer price index. Certain of our contracts contain additional variable consideration based on the outcome of contingent events and the movement of various indexes. We have not included such variable consideration in the transaction price to the extent the consideration is considered constrained due to the uncertainty of ultimate pricing and receipt. Approximately 78% and 63% of our LNG revenues from contracts included in the table above during the three
months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, and approximately 74% and 56% of our LNG revenues from contracts included in the table above during the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, were related to variable consideration received from customers. Approximately 77% and 96% of our LNG revenues—affiliate from contracts included in the table above during the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, and approximately 76% and 94% of our LNG revenues—affiliate from contracts included in the table above during the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, were related to variable consideration received from customers. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, approximately 1% and 2%, respectively, of our regasification revenues were related to variable consideration received from customers, and during each of the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, approximately 5% of our regasification revenues were related to variable consideration received from customers.
We may enter into contracts to sell LNG that are conditioned upon one or both of the parties achieving certain milestones such as reaching a final investment decision on a certain liquefaction Train, obtaining financing or achieving substantial completion of a Train and any related facilities. These contracts are considered completed contracts for revenue recognition purposes and are included in the transaction price above when the conditions are considered probable of being met.

Termination Agreement with Chevron
In June 2022, Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (“Chevron”) entered into an agreement with SPLNG providing for the early termination of the TUA and an associated terminal marine services agreement between the parties and their affiliates for a lump sum fee of $765 million (the “Termination Fee”). Obligations pursuant to the TUA and associated agreement, including Chevron’s obligation to pay SPLNG capacity payments totaling $125 million annually (adjusted for inflation) from 2023 through 2029, will terminate upon the later of SPLNG’s receipt of the Termination Fee or December 31, 2022. The termination agreement became effective on July 6, 2022. We have allocated the $765 million Termination Fee to the terminated commitments, with $796 million in cash inflows allocable to the termination of the TUA, which we are recognizing ratably over the July 6, 2022 to December 31, 2022 period as regasification revenues on our Consolidated Statements of Operations, and an offsetting $31 million in cash outflows allocable to the extinguishment of other remaining obligations we have to Chevron, which will be recognized upon receipt of the Termination Fee as a loss on extinguishment of debt on our Consolidated Statements of Operations. As of September 30, 2022, we recorded contract assets of $387 million related to the termination of the TUA.