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DISPOSITIONS AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2014
Discontinued Operations and Disposal Groups [Abstract] |
DIVESTITURES AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS | DISPOSITIONS AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS Dispositions On February 26, 2014, we sold our remaining 50% ownership interest in NuStar Asphalt LLC (Asphalt JV) to Lindsay Goldberg LLC (Lindsay Goldberg), a private investment firm (the Asphalt JV Sale). Lindsay Goldberg now owns 100% of Asphalt JV. Unless otherwise indicated, the term “Asphalt JV” is used in this report to refer to NuStar Asphalt LLC, to one or more of its consolidated subsidiaries or to all of them taken as a whole. Effective February 27, 2014, NuStar Asphalt LLC changed its name to Axeon Specialty Products LLC. As a result of the Asphalt JV Sale, we ceased applying the equity method of accounting. Upon completion of the Asphalt JV Sale, the $250.0 million unsecured revolving credit facility provided by us to Asphalt JV (the NuStar JV Facility) was converted from a revolving credit agreement into a $190.0 million term loan (the NuStar Term Loan). See Note 8 for a discussion of our agreements with Asphalt JV. Also at the time of the sale, the parties agreed to: (i) terminate the terminal services agreements with respect to our terminals in Rosario, NM, Catoosa, OK and Houston, TX; (ii) amend the terminal services agreements for our terminals in Baltimore, MD and Jacksonville, FL; and (iii) transfer ownership of both the Wilmington, NC and Dumfries, VA terminals to Asphalt JV, which were categorized as assets held for sale at December 31, 2013. Discontinued Operations Terminals Held for Sale. In addition to the terminals located in Wilmington, NC and Dumfries, VA, we have identified and plan to divest of several non-strategic, underperforming terminal facilities. As a result, we have reclassified the associated property, plant and equipment as “Assets held for sale” on the consolidated balance sheet. We presented the results of operations for those facilities, which were previously reported in the storage segment, as discontinued operations for all periods presented. We allocated interest expense of $0.4 million for each of the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013 to discontinued operations based on the ratio of net assets discontinued to consolidated net assets. San Antonio Refinery. On January 1, 2013, we sold our fuels refinery in San Antonio, Texas (the San Antonio Refinery) and related assets for approximately $117.0 million (the San Antonio Refinery Sale). We have presented the results of operations for the San Antonio Refinery and related assets as discontinued operations for all periods presented. We recognized a gain of $9.3 million on the sale, which is included in discontinued operations for the three months ended March 31, 2013. The following table summarizes the results from discontinued operations:
| Three Months Ended March 31,
| 2014 |  | 2013
| (Thousands of Dollars)
Revenues | $ | 1,821 |  |  | $ | 1,709 |
(Loss) income before income tax expense | $ | (3,359 | ) |  | $ | 4,250 |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for the facts and circumstances leading to the completed or expected disposal, manner and timing of disposal, the gain (loss) recognized in the income statement and the income statement caption that includes that gain (loss), amounts of revenues and pretax profit or loss reported in discontinued operations, the segment in which the disposal group was reported, and the classification (whether sold or classified as held for sale) and carrying value of the assets and liabilities comprising the disposal group. Includes all disposal groups, including those classified as components of the entity (discontinued operations). + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 360 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 3 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6391110&loc=d3e2941-110230 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 205 -SubTopic 20 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6360339&loc=d3e1361-107760 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 205 -SubTopic 20 -Section 45 -Paragraph 3 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6892542&loc=d3e957-107759 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 205 -SubTopic 20 -Section 45 -Paragraph 4 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6892542&loc=d3e1012-107759 Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 205 -SubTopic 20 -Section 50 -Paragraph 5 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6360339&loc=d3e1510-107760 Reference 6: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 205 -SubTopic 20 -Section 45 -Paragraph 5 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6892542&loc=d3e1020-107759 Reference 7: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 360 -SubTopic 10 -Section 45 -Paragraph 5 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=8077374&loc=d3e2443-110228 Reference 8: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 205 -SubTopic 20 -Section 50 -Paragraph 3 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6360339&loc=d3e1474-107760 Reference 9: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 205 -SubTopic 20 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6360339&loc=d3e1436-107760 + Details
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