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Editor, Base Oils - Gabriela Wheeler joined Lubes'n'Greases Publishing as base oils editor in 2013. She was previously senior editor at ICIS, where she was responsible for weekly price analysis and news about diverse markets, from base oils to polyolefins, fertilizers and sulphuric acid. Gabriela graduated with an M.A. in English and Linguistics from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, and currently resides with her family in Tokyo, Japan, having also lived and worked in the United States, Argentina, Poland, the Dominican Republic and Denmark.
A seasonal slowdown and an increasing number of coronavirus infections, driven by the Delta variant, were acting as a da …
Activity has not let up significantly in the United States market despite the summer holidays, with most base stocks see …
The alarming spread of the Delta strain of the coronavirus was a variable that base oil market participants have started …
Commanding almost as much interest as the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, base oil supply and demand continued to be closely w …
Unboxing July
July turned out to be another busy month for base oil market participants, which is a far cry from yea …
A changed scenario started to emerge in Asia, with improved availability of a number of base oil grades encouraging some …
It has been another active week in the U.S. base oils market, with no signs of the “dog days of summer” so typical o …
After months of extremely tight supply conditions and continuous upward price adjustments, availability of certain base …
The base oils market remains tight, demand has not let down as it typically does in mid-summer, and feedstock prices hov …
The base oil supply and demand balance remained strained in Asia, although availability of a number of grades appeared t …
Additional naphthenic base oil price increases went into effect during the week, as Ergon and San Joaquin Refining commu …
Gabriela Wheeler is away. Her column will reappear in the July 16 edition of Lube Report Asia.
Gabriela Wheeler is away. Her column will reappear in the July 14 edition of Lube Report Americas.
Every Rose Has its Thorn
With base oil demand showing a strong recovery in the United States after slumping during t …
For a few weeks, there had been expectations that base oil supply in Asia would start to lengthen as plant turnarounds w …
Cross Oil and Calumet will be increasing naphthenic base oil prices on the heels of a similar initiative recently propos …
A more balanced supply and demand scenario appeared to be gradually developing in Asia, but a few base oil grades were s …
Motiva, Excel Paralubes, Phillips 66, Calumet, HollyFrontier, Petro-Canada, Paulsboro, SK Americas and Safety-Kleen comm …
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