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Partners' Capital and Distributions - Income Allocation (Details)	Dec. 31, 2016
Related Party Transactions
Net income allocation	100.00%

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Partnership Agreement, Net Income Allocation Percent

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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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