Remarkably, the base oil supply scene tightened further the past two weeks as availability in all product groups diminished. API Group I supplies rema ...

Petrobras on Tuesday extended until the end of July the negotiations completion deadline for the sale of a refinery with a naphthenic base oil plant i ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. reported a steep deterioration in earnings for the quarter ended March 31, citing a power outage at one of it ...

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.

Uzbek authorities last week announced the government’s intention to sell the Fergana Oil Refinery LLC, the second-largest refining complex in the co ...

Valvoline posted higher sales and operating income for its fiscal quarter ending March 31, and Heritage-Crystal Clean’s oil business segment reporte ...

The run-up for base oil prices throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa slowed the past two weeks, but there are few signs of downward pressure. ...

Ready for a Change  The first quarter of the year was certainly a challenge. Base oil producers dealt with unexpected output disruptions and l ...

Turkish lubricant marketers are preparing for new government regulations that mandate including rerefined base stocks in the manufacture of finished l ...

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.

A bizarre scene has settled over base oil markets where traders and other spot buyers are complaining that product from all base oil groups is simply ...

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. plans to build an API Group III base oil plant at its refinery in Panipat – part of a broader expansion of the northern India ...

Total has decided to permanently close a base oil plant at its refinery in Gonfreville, France, as part of a project to overhaul the Normandy complex. ...

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.

Chinese refiners have opened several API Group III base oil plants in recent years, but for several reasons they do not meet the needs of local lubri ...

European, Middle Eastern and African base oil markets are going through a period never before experienced, with product exceptionally short in all mar ...

AIM, the London Stock Exchange’s market for small and medium growth companies, today issued a notice cancelling trading of United Kingdom-based tran ...

The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the United States base oil market during 2020. It was, as industry veteran Stephen Ames called it, the “year ...

Gen III Oil Corp. announced on Monday that it has contracted Koch Project Solutions to provide engineering, construction and licensed vendor teams for ...

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.