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INVENTORIES
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
Inventory Disclosure [Abstract]  
INVENTORIES INVENTORIES
Inventories consisted of the following:
March 31, 2020
(in millions)Titled InventoryInventory Intermediation AgreementsTotal
Crude oil and feedstocks
$1,158.7  $—  $1,158.7  
Refined products and blendstocks
1,109.6  270.8  1,380.4  
Warehouse stock and other
134.6  —  134.6  
$2,402.9  $270.8  $2,673.7  
Lower of cost or market adjustment
(1,521.5) (165.7) (1,687.2) 
Total inventories
$881.4  $105.1  $986.5  

December 31, 2019
(in millions)Titled InventoryInventory Intermediation AgreementsTotal
Crude oil and feedstocks
$1,071.4  $2.7  $1,074.1  
Refined products and blendstocks
976.0  352.9  1,328.9  
Warehouse stock and other
120.8  —  120.8  
$2,168.2  $355.6  $2,523.8  
Lower of cost or market adjustment
(324.8) (76.8) (401.6) 
Total inventories
$1,843.4  $278.8  $2,122.2  
Inventory under the amended and restated inventory intermediation agreements with J. Aron & Company, a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (“J. Aron”) (as amended and restated from time to time, the “Inventory Intermediation Agreements”) includes crude oil, intermediate and certain finished products (the “J. Aron Products”) purchased or produced by the Paulsboro and Delaware City refineries (the “East Coast Refineries”), and sold to counterparties in connection with such agreements. This inventory is held in the Company’s storage tanks at the East Coast Refineries and at PBFX’s assets acquired from Crown Point International, LLC in October 2018 (the “PBFX East Coast Storage Assets” and together with the Company’s storage tanks at the East Coast Refineries, the “J. Aron Storage Tanks”).
During the three months ended March 31, 2020, the Company recorded an adjustment to value its inventories to the lower of cost or market which increased loss from operations by $1,285.6 million, reflecting the net change in the lower of cost or market (“LCM”) inventory reserve from $401.6 million at December 31, 2019 to $1,687.2 million at March 31, 2020.
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 income from operations by $506.0 million, reflecting the net change in the LCM inventory reserve from $651.8 million at December 31, 2018 to $145.8 million at March 31, 2019.