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.
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 …
Price trends were diverging in Asia because availability of some base oil grades remained extremely tight while others b …
Chevron, ExxonMobil and Avista Oil announced posted price increases this week, introducing the sixth round of markups si …
There continued to be a shortage of a number of base oil grades, but supply appeared to be improving with the restart of …
Concerns about supply shortages seemed to be heightened by the unexpected outage at Ergon’s paraffinic base oil plant …
The extreme supply and demand imbalance observed in the base oil market in Asia appeared to be abating as refineries res …
Calumet, SK Americas, HollyFrontier, Petro-Canada, Paulsboro, Avista Oil and Safety-Kleen announced posted price increas …
The Dog Days of Summer May Be a Thing of the Past
Up until a couple of years ago, most base oil market players in th …
Demand for spot cargoes has weakened in some countries in Asia, and there were signs that the tight supply situation had …
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