INVENTORIES

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2022

Inventories consisted of the following:


December 31, 2022
(in millions)	Titled Inventory		Inventory Intermediation Agreement		Total
Crude oil and feedstocks	$	1,195.2	$	140.9	$	1,336.1
Refined products and blendstocks	1,244.7		40.9		1,285.6
Warehouse stock and other	141.9		—		141.9
	$	2,581.8	$	181.8	$	2,763.6
Lower of cost or market adjustment	—		—		—
Total inventories	$	2,581.8	$	181.8	$	2,763.6


December 31, 2021
(in millions)	Titled Inventory		Inventory Intermediation Agreement		Total
Crude oil and feedstocks	$	953.5	$	151.4	$	1,104.9
Refined products and blendstocks	964.6		293.8		1,258.4
Warehouse stock and other	141.8		—		141.8
	$	2,059.9	$	445.2	$	2,505.1
Lower of cost or market adjustment	—		—		—
Total inventories	$	2,059.9	$	445.2	$	2,505.1

On October 25, 2021, PBF Holding and its subsidiaries, Delaware City Refining Company LLC, Paulsboro Refining Company LLC, and Chalmette Refining (collectively, the “PBF Entities”), entered into a third amended and restated inventory intermediation agreement (the “Third Inventory Intermediation Agreement”) with J. Aron & Company, a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (“J. Aron”), pursuant to which the terms of the existing inventory intermediation agreements were amended and restated in their entirety, including, among other things, pricing and an extension of terms. The Third Inventory Intermediation Agreement extends the term to December 31, 2024, which term may be further extended by mutual consent of the parties to December 31, 2025. On May 25, 2022, the PBF Entities entered into an amendment of the Third Inventory Intermediation Agreement to amend certain provisions thereof that related to and were impacted by amendments made on May 25, 2022 to the Revolving Credit Agreement (as defined in Note 8 - Credit Facilities and Debt).

Pursuant to the Third Inventory Intermediation Agreement, J. Aron will continue to purchase and hold title to certain inventory, including crude oil, intermediate and certain finished products (the “J. Aron Products”) purchased or produced by the Paulsboro and Delaware City refineries (and, at the election of the PBF Entities, the Chalmette refinery) (the “Refineries”) and delivered into storage tanks at the Refineries (the “Storage Tanks”). The J. Aron Products are sold back to the Company as the J. Aron Products are discharged out of the Storage Tanks. These purchases and sales are settled daily, and pricing is trued-up monthly at the market prices related to those J. Aron Products. These transactions are considered to be made in contemplation of each other and, accordingly, do not result in the recognition of a sale when title passes from the Refineries to J. Aron. Additionally, J. Aron has the right to store the J. Aron Products purchased in Storage Tanks under the Third Inventory Intermediation Agreement and will retain these storage rights for the term of the agreement. PBF Holding continues to market and sell the J. Aron Products independently to third parties.

At December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, the replacement value of inventories exceeded the LIFO carrying value. There was no lower of cost or market (“LCM”) inventory reserve at December 31, 2022. During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company recorded an adjustment to value its inventories to the lower of cost or market which increased income from operations by $669.6 million, reflecting no LCM inventory reserve at December 31, 2021 compared to an LCM inventory reserve of $669.6 million at December 31, 2020.

An actual valuation of inventories valued under the LIFO method is made at the end of each year based on inventory levels and costs at that time. The Company recorded a charge related to a LIFO layer decrement of $83.0 million during the year ended December 31, 2020. There were no significant decrements recorded during the years ended December 31, 2022 or December 31, 2021. The majority of the decrement recorded in 2020 related to the Company’s East Coast LIFO inventory layer and the reduction in the Company’s East Coast inventory experienced as part of the East Coast Refining Reconfiguration (as defined in “Note 5 - Property, Plant and Equipment, net”) and our decision to operate our two refineries on the east coast as one functional unit.