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                           November 8, 2023

       Vincent Donargo
       Chief Financial Officer
       Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P.
       2780 Waterfront Parkway East Drive
       Suite 200
       Indianapolis, IN 46214

                                                        Re: Calumet Specialty 
Products Partners, L.P.
                                                            Form 10-K for the 
fiscal year ended December 31, 2022
                                                            Filed March 15, 
2023
                                                            File No. 000-51734

       Dear Vincent Donargo:

              We have limited our review of your filing to the financial 
statements and related
       disclosures and have the following comments.

              Please respond to this letter within ten business days by 
providing the requested
       information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If 
you do not believe a
       comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in 
your response.

                                                        After reviewing your 
response to this letter, we may have additional comments.

       Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022

       Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
       9. Long-term Debt, page 95

   1.                                                   On page 97 you disclose 
that on August 5, 2022 Stonebriar Commercial Finance LLC
                                                        purchased from and 
leased back to MRL a hydrocracker for a purchase price of $250.0
                                                        million. Please tell us 
how you comply with the accounting and disclosure
                                                        requirements for the 
sale and subsequent leaseback of the hydrocracker from
                                                        Stonebriar. We refer 
you to the provisions of ASC 842-40.
 Vincent Donargo
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Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P.
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       In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are 
responsible for the
accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, 
comments, action or
absence of action by the staff.

       Please contact Brian McAllister at 202-551-3341 or Kimberly Calder at 
202-551-3701
with any questions.



                                                             Sincerely,

                                                             Division of 
Corporation Finance
                                                             Office of Energy & 
Transportation