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INVENTORIES
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
Inventory Disclosure [Abstract]  
INVENTORIES
INVENTORIES
Inventories consisted of the following:
March 31, 2019
(in millions)
Titled Inventory
 
Inventory Intermediation Agreements
 
Total
Crude oil and feedstocks
$
1,156.2

 
$
69.9

 
$
1,226.1

Refined products and blendstocks
1,067.1

 
308.0

 
1,375.1

Warehouse stock and other
109.4

 
—

 
109.4

 
$
2,332.7

 
$
377.9

 
$
2,710.6

Lower of cost or market adjustment
(76.8
)
 
(69.0
)
 
(145.8
)
Total inventories
$
2,255.9

 
$
308.9

 
$
2,564.8

December 31, 2018
(in millions)
Titled Inventory
 
Inventory Intermediation Agreements
 
Total
Crude oil and feedstocks
$
1,044.8

 
$
—

 
$
1,044.8

Refined products and blendstocks
1,026.9

 
334.8

 
1,361.7

Warehouse stock and other
109.4

 
—

 
109.4

 
$
2,181.1

 
$
334.8

 
$
2,515.9

Lower of cost or market adjustment
(557.2
)
 
(94.6
)
 
(651.8
)
Total inventories
$
1,623.9

 
$
240.2

 
$
1,864.1


Inventory under inventory intermediation agreements includes crude oil and certain light finished products sold to counterparties in connection with the amended and restated inventory intermediation agreements (as amended, in the first quarter of 2019, the “Inventory Intermediation Agreements”) with J. Aron & Company, a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (“J. Aron”). This inventory is held in the Company’s storage tanks at the Delaware City and Paulsboro refineries and at PBFX’s East Coast Storage Assets (the “PBFX East Coast Storage Facility”, and together with the Company’s storage tanks at the Delaware City and Paulsboro refineries, the “Storage Tanks”).
During the three months ended March 31, 2019, the Company recorded an adjustment to value its inventories to the lower of cost or market which increased operating income by $506.0 million, reflecting the net change in the lower of cost or market (“LCM”) inventory reserve from $651.8 million at December 31, 2018 to $145.8 million at March 31, 2019.
During the three months ended March 31, 2018, the Company recorded an adjustment to value its inventories to the lower of cost or market which increased operating income by $87.7 million, reflecting the net change in the LCM reserve from $300.5 million at December 31, 2017 to $212.8 million at March 31, 2018.