Conventional Base Stocks

Are the synthetic and naphthenic understudies to paraffinic base oils ready to steal the limelight?

Valvoline reported a slight loss in operating income and lubricants sales volume, HollyFrontiers lubricants and specialty products segment posted a lo ...

Petronas aims to double its supply of API Group III base oils within four years, a top official with its international lubricants arm said recently, s ...

Finnish rerefiner STR Tecoil recently acquired the used oil collection business from Fortum, a Finnish company in the renewable energy sector. The ter ...

Finnish rerefiner STR Tecoil Oy plans to start collecting and processing waste lubricants to produce base oils in Russia, the company confirmed to Lub ...

Regional imbalances in base oil supply and demand lead to large volumes being shipped all over the globe. The pattern of that trade continually shifts ...

United States base oil producers made hay while the sun shined last year, taking advantage of a lack of disruptions to churn out 67.3 million barrels ...

Recycling and sustainability are buzzwords often heard in the West. Now theyre being discussed in Central Asia as waste oil processing takes off.

The worlds thirst for API Group III base stocks should continue to grow in coming years, as requirements for light-duty automobiles keep increasing an ...

Clean Harbors Safety-Kleen segment and Heritage-Crystal Cleans oil business segment each reported higher revenue for the fourth quarter and full year, ...

Vessel operators and oil marketers are girding for the impacts that IMO 2020 will have on shipping and marine lubricants, but an industry analyst pred ...

ExxonMobil announced Thursday that its new base stock plant in Rotterdam has begun commercial production, marking the opening of Europes first large-s ...

Hill Corp. recently finished building a used oil rerefinery and a small grease unit at its lubricant blending plant in Shymkent, in southern Kazakhsta ...

Ruisike Co., a subsidiary of Chinese automaker Chery, began construction this month on a used lubricant rerefinery in Fanchang, Anhui province. The fa ...

African rerefiners agree that overcoming skeptical public perception of their rerefined base oils is a significant hurdle to growth. However, they deb ...

Efforts to improve fuel economy and reduce emissions will continue pushing United States engine oils towards lower viscosities while gradually stimula ...

The Federal Trade Commission rejected recycled oil rule changes suggested by rerefiner Avista Oil - to specify that base oil produced through rerefini ...

Heritage-Crystal Cleans oil business segment and Milacrons Fluid Technologies segment each reported increases in revenue, and Quaker Chemical posted i ...

Avista Oil AG and a United Kingdom-based used oil collector formed a joint venture to build a rerefinery in Denmark at the site of an Avista facility ...

United Kingdom-based transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec Group posted an overall loss for the year, although sales revenue from its U.S. and Australia ...