ACQUISITIONS Purchase Price (Details) $ in Thousands	Jul. 01, 2016 USD ($) refinery	Sep. 30, 2016 refinery
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Number Of Operating Refineries \| refinery	5	4
Torrance Refinery [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Gross purchase price	$ 537,500
Working capital	450,582
Business Combination, Consideration Transferred, Post Close Purchase Price Adjustments	(16,150)
Consideration transferred	$ 971,932

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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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