Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd, one of the India’s largest integrated energy companies, and Castrol India, the country’s producer and marketer of f ...

As London heads into conference week for base oils, swiftly followed by what is now called International Energy Week, base oil markets are bracing geo ...

Kline & Co.’s Anuj Kumar observes Group III base oils sprouting from a few used oil rerefiners and predicts more will come.

A tidal wave of mineral base oil capacity is surging onto a global market that already has a supply overhang. Exporters are especially likely to feel ...

Sustainability has become a defining priority for the modern lubricants industry. As manufacturers and end-users seek solutions that reduce environmen ...

Gabriela Wheeler discusses some signs that demand for U.S. base oils could improve in coming months, although prices may continue to face downward pr ...

The Asian base oils market has been like a giant that is taking its time to awaken, since the potential for business is robust, but demand continues t ...

Freezing temperatures and heavy snow blanketed large swaths of the United States and Canada this week, knocking out power, disrupting transportation a ...

ExxonMobil has begun construction on a major expansion of API Group III base oil production at its Baytown complex in Texas. The expansion is aimed at ...

The European Union’s sanctions on oil products produced using Russian crude oil appear to have been badly thought through. Material such as jet fuel ...

The Asian base oils market has been like a giant that is taking its time to awaken, since the potential for business is robust, but demand continues t ...

Rerefined base oil production is gaining traction globally as sustainability goals and circular economy models reshape the lubricants market. Capacity ...

Synthetic base stocks, unlike mineral base oils in Groups I–III, are synthesized from molecules with identical structures rather than refined. This ...

Base oil activity proceeded at a moderate pace this week, partly dampened by the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday on Jan. 19, with suppliers not ...

This week the news is rotating around the implementation of new European Union and United Kingdom sanctions on material produced using Russian crude i ...

With few definite indications whether lubricant demand will strengthen in the next few weeks, Asian buyers have taken a wait-and-see approach and were ...

The geography, quality and scale of global base oil supply has fundamentally changed over the past two decades. Global production capacity has swollen ...

Time to Shift Gears?   Despite the fact that 2025 proved to be a challenging year for the base oils and lubricants industry, most market players r ...

January is generally considered a transitional month in that both buyers and sellers assess inventories and product needs for the coming months, with ...

With most players having returned to their posts, business around Europe, the Middle East and Africa has resumed with what appears to be added zest on ...