Limited Liability Company Or Limited Partnership, Incentive Distribution Rights, Maximum Available Cash Eligible

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Limited Liability Company Or Limited Partnership, Incentive Distribution Rights, Threshold

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Partner Distribution Period

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Per unit of ownership amount of cash distributions declared to unit-holder of a limited partnership (LP).

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 272
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-Topic 505
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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Amount of incentive obligation paid in cash or stock during the period to a limited liability corporation managing member or limited partnership general partner.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 505
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-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
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Partnership Distributions - Narrative (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands		3 Months Ended
	Nov. 13, 2017	Mar. 31, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017	Sep. 30, 2017	Jun. 30, 2017	Mar. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016
Equity [Abstract]
Partner Distribution Period		45 days
Maximum eligibility of available cash		50.00%
Incentive distribution rights threshold ($ per unit)		$ 0.4313
Distribution Made to Limited Partner [Line Items]
Distribution ($ per unit)			$ 0.4883	$ 0.4665	$ 0.4457	$ 0.4108	$ 0.4333
Incentive distribution			$ 520	$ 223	$ 92	$ 0	$ 0
General Partner
Distribution Made to Limited Partner [Line Items]
Incentive distribution	$ 800