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Product Sales Revenues (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2014

Product Sales Revenue [Abstract]

Components of Product Sales Revenues

For the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014, product sales revenue included the following (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2013				2014
Physical sale of petroleum products	$	207,880			$	293,240
NYMEX contract adjustments:
Change in value of NYMEX contracts that did not qualify for hedge accounting treatment and the effective portion of gains and losses of matured NYMEX contracts that qualified for hedge accounting treatment associated with our butane blending and fractionation activities(1)	(6,158		)		2,823
Other	(11		)		—
Total NYMEX contract adjustments	(6,169		)		2,823
Total product sales revenue	$	201,711			$	296,063

(1) The associated petroleum products for these activities are, to the extent still owned as of the statement date, or were, to the extent no longer owned as of the statement date, classified as inventory in current assets on our consolidated balance sheets.

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