Conventional Base Stocks

SK Lubricants posted steep decreases in operating profit and sales for the second quarter, according to an earnings report filed this week by SK innov ...

Revenues Drop for HCC

July 29, 2020

Heritage-Crystal Clean’s oil business segment – which includes oil collection activities, rerefining activities and sales of recycled fuel oil – ...

S-Oil Earnings Jumped

July 24, 2020

South Korean refiner S-Oil reported that its base oil business posted a strong increase in operating income and a drop in sales revenue for the quarte ...

By a slender margin, base oil traders stayed within the half-year 200,000 metric ton quota on API Group II imports into the European Union, probably b ...

Nynas AB announced May 12 that Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. sold a 35 percent stake in the company and that the United States lifted sanctions against ...

Rerefiners in North America are feeling the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in the form of reduced demand for their base oil and finished lubes, alon ...

Clean Harbors acquired a small API Group II+ rerefinery in New Hampshire last month, providing its Safety-Kleen subsidiary with a foothold in the Nort ...

Officials in Venezuela’s embattled government have drafted a plan to restructure the country’s sacred national oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela ...

All vehicles require a range of lubricants, greases, coolants and fluids, and EVs are no exception. Existing base stock technology may satisfy these n ...

Clean Harbors’ Safety-Kleen segment and Heritage-Crystal Clean’s oil business segment both reported higher revenues for the first quarter, compare ...

Even with without major disruptors, 2019 saw a notable decrease in U.S. base oil production.

Southwest Dingsheng Energy plans to build a base oil rerefinery in Xi Feng County, Guizhou province. A local government environmental assessment was r ...

Automotive

April 1, 2020

Steve Swedberg traces the evolution of used oil from careless disposal to rerefining.

Base Oil Report

April 1, 2020

The rapid spread of the coronavirus has triggered economic downturn around the world, and base oil producers have had to roll with the punches by cutt ...

India is a big country with a big thirst for base oils. This traditionally Group I market is continuing its shift toward higher-performance base stock ...

Clean Harbors announced on Monday that its Safety-Kleen subsidiary and all of its waste oil collection businesses will raise prices related to collect ...

Quaker Chemical reported an increase in fourth quarter net income, but a decline for 2019. Its net sales were higher for the quarter and 2019, followi ...

API Group II exports from the United States will shift from Europe to South America and Africa over the next five years as the market adjusts to new p ...

United Kingdom-based transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec Group posted a full-year loss for 2019 and said its revenues declined by more than 22 percent, ...

Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras is seeking to add API Group II base oil production in the country through new installations at its Comperj p ...