Market attention partly turned to events happening closer to home than the Middle East conflict this week, as a tropical storm threatened to disrupt r ...

The Strait of Hormuz crisis highlighted the value of used oil as a domestic resource, prompting countries such as Japan and Australia to rely more hea ...

United States President Donald Trump ordered a cessation over the weekend to the bombing program going on against Iran the past couple weeks. Counter ...

The Strait of Hormuz remained effectively closed despite a pause in hostilities between the United States and Iran. Further disruptions could be trigg ...

Intensifying hostilities between the United States and Iran and the renewed closing of the Strait of Hormuz continued to disrupt crude oil and refined ...

The past week saw a ramp up of strikes and counterstrikes between the United States and Iran, primarily directed toward the opening of the Strait of H ...

Escalating hostilities between the United States and Iran threw base oil markets into turmoil again given increased concerns about product availabilit ...

With the Strait of Hormuz once again effectively closed to vessel traffic, the chances that fresh crude oil and base oil shipments would be able to le ...

Japanese lubricant manufacturers continue to limit supply while the country develops alternatives to crude oil stranded in the Persian Gulf, according ...

The Iranian peace initiative appears to have collapsed over the last few days, with Trump calling for the cessation of talks with Tehran amid fresh st ...

With a tenuous ceasefire between the United States and Iran keeping crude oil analysts on edge and oil prices trading within a narrow range, the focus ...

Just when the Middle East situation was starting to look up and an increasing number of vessels had been able to transit the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian ...

Ukrainian long-range drones struck Gazprom Neft’s Omsk refinery on Monday, disrupting production at Russia’s largest API Group II and III ...

Amid national mourning for the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delegations from Tehran and the United States agreed to resume talk ...

With a tenuous ceasefire between the United States and Iran keeping crude oil analysts on edge and oil prices trading within a narrow range, the focus ...

The disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has fractured the global base oil market, leaving Europe scrambling for scarce Group III suppl ...

The conflict between the United States and Iran has had a devastating effect on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, transforming the global base oi ...

First article in a two-part series from Ernie Henderson examining the history that made base oil markets vulnerable to geopolitical conflict.

No end in sight to the chaos in the Gulf.

While the number of vessels allowed to transit the Strait of Hormuz has increased, a recent artillery strike by Iran on a commercial ship and the Unit ...