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Partners' Capital Account, Units, Issued In Non-Cash Exchange

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Rights To Distribution Made To Limited Partner, Property, Plant, And Equipment Contributed

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Value of equity interests (such as common shares, preferred shares, or partnership interest) issued or issuable to acquire the entity.

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

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Amount of consideration transferred, consisting of acquisition-date fair value of assets transferred by the acquirer, liabilities incurred by the acquirer, and equity interest issued by the acquirer.

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Total change in each class of partners' capital accounts during the year due to redemptions and adjustments to redemption value. All partners include general, limited and preferred partners.

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-Publisher SEC

-Name Regulation S-X (SX)

-Number 210

-Section 04

-Article 3

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The cash outflow associated with the acquisition of business during the period. The cash portion only of the acquisition price.

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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS CONTRIBUTION AND CONVEYANCE AGREEMENT (Details) (PBF Logistics LP [Member], USD $)	0 Months Ended		0 Months Ended				9 Months Ended
	May 14, 2014 PBF LLC [Member] Contribution Agreement [Member]	May 14, 2014 PBF LLC [Member] Contribution Agreement [Member]	May 14, 2014 Subordinated Units [Member] PBF LLC [Member] Contribution Agreement [Member]	May 14, 2014 Common Units [Member] PBF LLC [Member] Contribution Agreement [Member]	May 14, 2014 Limited Partner [Member] PBF LLC [Member]	May 14, 2014 PBF LLC [Member] Contribution Agreement [Member]	Sep. 30, 2014 Delaware City West Heavy Crude Unloading Rack [Member] PBF LLC [Member]
Partners' Capital Account, Units, Issued In Non-Cash Exchange			15,886,553	74,053
Limited Partners' Capital Account, Ownership Percentage					50.20%
Rights To Distribution Made To Limited Partner		$ 298,664,000				$ 298,664,000
Partners' Capital Account, Redemptions	1
Business Combination, Consideration Transferred							150,000,000
Payments to Acquire Businesses, Gross							135,000,000
Business Acquisition, Equity Interest Issued or Issuable, Value Assigned							$ 15,000,000