Related Party Transactions - Services Agreement (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019	Dec. 31, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017
CVR Energy \| Services Agreement
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Personnel costs	$ 7.3	$ 6.6	$ 6.5

Amount of expense for salary, wage, profit sharing; incentive and equity-based compensation; and other employee benefit.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 220
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03(b)(4))
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=116634182&loc=SL114868664-224227

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