Conventional Base Stocks

Bahrain Lube Base Oil Co. in Sitra, Bahrain, has been churning out API Group III base stocks since 2011. It’s clear who operates the plant and also ...

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 ...

Base oil buyers and suppliers continued to deal with rising costs and supply chain disruptions caused by the ongoing pandemic, massive lockdowns in Ch ...

Luberef, a base oil joint venture of Saudi Aramco, is considering an initial public stock offering that would aim to raise more than $1 billion, Bloom ...

Bright stock supply is tight. Fortunately, OCP and PIB can be used to replace the scarce base stock in grease applications.

Despite the ongoing pandemic and tough economic conditions, base oil production in the United States achieved full rebound to pre-pandemic levels in 2 ...

Base Oil Report: Pricing

April 1, 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has wreaked havoc on the oil and gas industry, prompting base oil producers to up prices once again.

The dust has started to settle after the whirlwind of posted price adjustments observed the previous two weeks. However, volatility in crude oil and f ...

South Korea’s base oil export volumes remained flat in February for the second consecutive month, compared to the same month last year, according to ...

More than 500 members of the United Steelworkers union went on strike Monday at Chevron’s refinery in Richmond, California, which has an API Group I ...

Base oil producers responded to the unexpected drop in crude oil pricing last week by rescinding part of their announced posted price increases, altho ...

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 ...

More United States base oil producers announced posted price increases this week, which will be implemented in addition to the markups that went into ...

Vertex Energy Inc. reported large increases in gross profit and revenues for the quarter ended Dec. 31 and full year 2021 for its used motor oil colle ...

The South American country’s output of base oil – primarily consisting of API Group I oils – declined to 44,000 metric tons in January, down fro ...

Heritage-Crystal Clean’s oil business segment – including oil collection and rerefining activities and sales of recycled fuel oil – recorded inc ...

Sky-high crude oil prices precipitated an avalanche of base oil price initiatives, both on the paraffinic and the naphthenic sides of the market – t ...

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 ...

Paulsboro, Avista Oil, Safety-Kleen and SK Lubricants Americas implemented posted price increases during the week, following similar initiatives by ot ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. reported a steeper net loss for the quarter ending Dec. 1 and the full year of 2021, despite large increases ...