San Joaquin Refining communicated a price increase for its naphthenic base oils on the heels of similar initiatives by Cross Oil and Calumet. A tight ...

Base oil markets throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa are mostly showing weakening demand across all types of products, although some groups ...

Kazakhstan is working on several new petrochemical refining projects carrying a combined price tag of U.S. $12 billion, and some of them – including ...

Cross Oil and Calumet announced price increases for their naphthenic oils this week. Base oil and lubricant market participants were coping with trans ...

Lube Report temporarily publishes Ray Masson’s column every other week. His EMEA Base Oil Price Report will appear again in next week’s issue.

Lub-rref announced that it will redirect most of the funds from its initial public stock offering to build a second waste oil rerefinery rather than u ...

Many households and businesses were still recovering from the impact of Hurricane Ida, which battered large swaths of the Southeast and Northeast of t ...

Expectations for a surge in demand after the holiday period in August appear to have been misjudged, based on trading during the first week of Septemb ...

Base oil facilities along the United States Gulf Coast appeared to largely avoid damage over the weekend from Hurricane Ida, but the market was still ...

Turning Down the Heat Just like the Olympic flame was extinguished in Tokyo in early August following the completion of an unusual and challenging ...

The ever-growing emphasis on sustainability is pushing the lubricants industry to develop products that help achieve carbon neutrality. In the base st ...

Lube Report temporarily publishes Ray Masson’s column every other week. His EMEA Base Oil Price Report will appear again in next week’s issue.

Conflicting currents roiled the United States base oils market, as healthy demand and limited availability in some segments exerted upward pressure, w ...

Fundamentals in European, Middle Eastern and African base oil markets are vastly different from those in Asia-Pacific and the United States, creating ...

For the quarter ending June 30, Cosan’s Moove reported increases in profit, revenue and sales volume and Vertex Energy’s black oil segment – inc ...

While the supply and demand tightness witnessed since late 2020 has started to ease in some base oil segments, the United States market was not overfl ...

Lube Report temporarily publishes Ray Masson’s column every other week. His EMEA Base Oil Price Report will appear again in next week’s issue.

For the quarter ending June 30, Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. saw a steep net loss but with increased sales, Valvoline posted increases in ...

Activity has not let up significantly in the United States market despite the summer holidays, with most base stocks seen as hot commodities pursued b ...

The base oil scene is taking on the role of a balancing act on global basis. A number of arbitrage opportunities opening up may have the effect of inc ...