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 ...

Anuj Kumar discusses what is needed to maximize the amount of waste lubricants recycled into base oil.

Out with the Old, in with the New   As the end of the year approaches, many base oil industry participants are likely to evaluate the circumst ...

The fall season ushers in a time of reflection and gratitude in many parts of the world, such as the traditional autumn moon viewing in Japan (known a ...

Saudi Aramco Base Oil Co., known as Luberef, extended its land lease investment agreement for its Yanbu base oil facility by 20 years, according to a ...

Bashneft’s refinery in Ufa, Russia, was attacked by Ukrainian drones Saturday, causing undetermined damage to another Russian refinery that produces ...