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Net Income per Unit - Additional Information (Details) - $ / shares	6 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2017	Jun. 30, 2016
Class B Convertible Preferred Units
Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings Per Share [Line Items]
Antidilutive units	12,983,333	12,983,333
Non-vested units awards
Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings Per Share [Line Items]
Antidilutive units	679,168	850,000
First Target Distribution
First target distribution level per unit	$ 0.2425	$ 0.2425

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 260
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (c)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6371337&loc=d3e3550-109257

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