Naphthenic

While Petrobras and Grepar Participacoes await the conclusion of a second regulator review of Grepar’s bid to buy the Lubnor refinery in Fortaleza, ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. trimmed its losses while increasing sales revenue for the quarter ending Dec. 31 and for the full year 2022. ...

Base oil production in the United States dropped to 4.4 million barrels, the third straight month that the volume was below 5 million barrels, and 16% ...

Base oil production in the United States continues on the path to recovery, but the import and export scene has been slightly altered by geopolitical ...

The United States’ base oil production declined 16% in September, and production for the first nine months of the year was down 4%, compared to the ...

Base oil production in the United States dropped to 4 million barrels in August, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported yesterday, the lo ...

Brazil has sold off two of its three major base oil plants. What might this mean for base oil production and overall market dynamics in the country?

Base Oil Report: Pricing

October 31, 2022

Posted base oil prices seemed to settle into a more typical pattern this fall, but has the market returned to normality yet?

The United States’ base oil production slipped 9% to in July, while production for the first seven months of the year was up 1%, compared to the sam ...

Base Oil Report: Pricing

October 3, 2022

Base oil pricing dynamics cooled off a bit in September. Gabriela Wheeler explains which factors helped to steady the market.

Base oil production in the United States declined 8% in June, compared to the same month last year, according to data released by a government agency. ...

Base Oil Report: Pricing

August 1, 2022

Crude oil and feedstock prices remain volatile, and the summer months have ushered in yet another round of base oil price increases.

Base oil production in the United States rose 15% in March, compared to the same month last year, and was 17% higher than in March 2020, a U.S. govern ...

Gabriela Wheeler explains some of the most prevalent factors contributing to the current—and confusing—base oil pricing dynamics.

United States base oil output declined more than 10% in January, compared to the same month last year, and was down 8% from January 2020, a U.S. gover ...

Nynas AB – one of the world’s largest naphthenic base oil producers and the only large European source – is halting direct sales in North Americ ...

The United States produced 61.2 million barrels of base oil in 2021, a 10% increase from 2020 and 1% above 2019’s production, according to data rele ...

The United States produced 4.8 million barrels of base oil in November, 11% less than in the same month in 2020, but matched the November 2019 total, ...

As the Pendulum Swings

February 1, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic led to sharp changes in base oil pricing and margins. Will the market settle into a new post-pandemic norm, and what might that ...

The United States produced 5.2 million barrels of base oil in October, a 4% increase from the same month in 2020 and just shy of the October 2019 tota ...