Transportation Agreements

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2016

Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Abstract]

Our transportation agreements represent a portion of the total purchase price of certain assets acquired from Alon in 2005 and from HFC in 2008. The Alon agreement is being amortized over 30 years ending 2035 (the initial 15-year term of the agreement plus an expected 15-year extension period), and the HFC agreement is being amortized over 15 years ending 2023 (the term of the HFC agreement).

The carrying amounts of our transportation agreements are as follows:



	June 30, 2016		December 31, 2015
	(In thousands)
Alon transportation agreement	$	59,933	$	59,933
HFC transportation agreement	74,231		74,231
Other	50		50
	134,214		134,214
Less accumulated amortization	63,884		60,409
	$	70,330	$	73,805

Amortization expense was $3.5 million for each of the six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015.

We have additional transportation agreements with HFC resulting from historical transactions consisting of pipeline, terminal and tankage assets contributed to us or acquired from HFC. These transactions occurred while we were a consolidated VIE of HFC; therefore, our basis in these agreements is zero and does not reflect a step-up in basis to fair value.