Malaysian waste management company and rerefiner Pentas Flora will supply rerefined API Group II+ and Group III base oils to Japan, formalizing its en ...

U.S. base oil producers handled this year’s arctic blast much better than in 2021.

Base oil production in Brazil fell 4% in 2025 but was still the country’s second-highest total since the COVID-19 pandemic, which started in 2020. ...

London — SAE 0W lubricants are projected to become the fastest-growing light-duty engine oil segment over the next decade across Europe, North Ameri ...

Japanese refiner Idemitsu Kosan Co. and Saudi Aramco inked a agreement to cover the supply and procurement of lubricating base oils. The Tokyo-based r ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Saudi Arabian base oil refiner Luberef and national oil company Saudi Aramco are evaluating the feasibility of an API Group III base oil manufacturing ...

Valencia, Spain – Europe and Asia are rapidly reshaping the rerefined base oil market, emerging as the dominant global hubs as sustainability mandat ...

A new feedstock agreement with state-owned Saudi Aramco ensures operations at Luberef’s API Group I base oil unit in Jeddah, western Saudi Arabia, u ...

Representatives of Europe’s waste oil rerefining industry called on the European Union to help grow the industry with stronger regulations and clear ...

Vertex Energy said its Mobile, Alabama hydrocracker is now producing VTX-R4, a 4-centistoke API Group III rerefined base oil. The unit is a third comp ...

Yitai Bochen Chemical Technology Co. began construction this month on a new API Group III base oil plant in Zibo, Shandong province, marking a major b ...