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Product Sales Revenues | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2014
Product Sales Revenue [Abstract] |
Product Sales Revenues | Product Sales Revenue The amounts reported as product sales revenue on our consolidated statements of income include revenue from the physical sale of petroleum products and from mark-to-market adjustments from New York Mercantile Exchange ("NYMEX") contracts. We use NYMEX contracts to hedge against changes in the price of refined products we expect to sell from our business activities in which we acquire or produce petroleum products. Some of these NYMEX contracts could qualify for hedge accounting treatment, and when the contracts are so designated we account for these as either cash flow or fair value hedges. The effective portion of the fair value changes in contracts designated as cash flow hedges are recognized as adjustments to product sales when the hedged product is physically sold. Ineffectiveness in the contracts designated as cash flow hedges is recognized as an adjustment to product sales in the period the ineffectiveness occurs. We account for NYMEX contracts that do not qualify for hedge accounting treatment as economic hedges, with the period changes in fair value recognized as product sales, except for those agreements that economically hedge the inventories associated with our pipeline system overages (the period changes in the fair value of these agreements are charged to operating expense). See Note 9 – Derivative Financial Instruments for further disclosures regarding our NYMEX contracts. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2013 and 2014, product sales revenue included the following (in thousands):
| Three Months Ended |  | Nine Months Ended
| September 30, |  | September 30,
| 2013 |  | 2014 |  | 2013 |  | 2014
Physical sale of petroleum products | $ | 146,887 |  |  | $ | 108,320 |  |  | $ | 500,347 |  |  | $ | 555,870 |
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) | (2,035 | ) |  | 47,546 |  |  | 4,149 |  |  | 33,703 |
Other | — |  |  | (1 | ) |  | (11 | ) |  | 12 |
Total NYMEX contract adjustments | (2,035 | ) |  | 47,545 |  |  | 4,138 |  |  | 33,715 |
Total product sales revenue | $ | 144,852 |  |  | $ | 155,865 |  |  | $ | 504,485 |  |  | $ | 589,585 |
(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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- Definition The amounts reported as product sales revenues on the income statement, including revenues from the physical sale of petroleum products, adjustments to revenues from the closing value of commodity derivatives that qualified as cash flow hedges and adjustments to revenues from the period change in fair value of commodity derivatives that did not qualify for hedge accounting. + References No definition available. + Details
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