Ownership Interest in General Partner

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The number of general partner units outstanding.

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Percentage investment held by the managing member or general partner of the limited liability company (LLC) or limited partnership (LP).

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 272
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6373374&loc=d3e70478-108055

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The number of units or percentage investment held by one or more members or limited partners of the LLC or LP.

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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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The number of limited partner units outstanding.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 505
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 5
-Subparagraph (SAB TOPIC 4.F)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=27012166&loc=d3e187171-122770

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 272
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6373374&loc=d3e70434-108055

Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher SEC
-Name Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB)
-Number Topic 4
-Section F

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Equity (Details) - shares	12 Months Ended
Equity (Details) - shares	Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014	Feb. 25, 2016
Limited Partners' Capital Account [Line Items]
Delek's Limited Parter Interest	60.70%
General partner's ownership interest	2.00%	2.00%	2.00%
General Partner's units	496,502	495,445
Common - Public
Limited Partners' Capital Account [Line Items]
Limited Partners' Capital Account, Units Outstanding	9,263,415	9,478,273
Common - Delek
Limited Partners' Capital Account [Line Items]
Limited Partners' Capital Account, Units Outstanding	15,065,192	2,799,258
Subordinated- Delek
Limited Partners' Capital Account [Line Items]
Limited Partners' Capital Account, Units Outstanding	0	11,999,258		11,999,258
Delek US [Member]
Limited Partners' Capital Account [Line Items]
Delek's ownership interest in General Partner	94.90%
Other Affiliates [Member]
Limited Partners' Capital Account [Line Items]
Delek's ownership interest in General Partner	5.10%