Clean Harbors will pay $140 million in cash to acquire Vertex Energy’s Heartland base oil rerefinery in Ohio, a second rerefinery in Louisiana and i ...

Cross Oil and Calumet will be increasing naphthenic base oil prices on the heels of a similar initiative recently proposed by paraffinic producers. Ex ...

Base oil markets around the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions are witnessing extraordinary events at the moment, with supplies drying up and pric ...

Motiva, Excel Paralubes, Phillips 66, Calumet, HollyFrontier, Petro-Canada, Paulsboro, SK Americas and Safety-Kleen communicated posted price increase ...

Base oil production in the United States rebounded in March but remained 9% lower than the average output for that month in the previous five years, s ...

Motiva Enterprises announced last week an agreement to market, sell and distribute in the North America API Group III base stocks supplied from South ...

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.

Chevron, ExxonMobil and Avista Oil announced posted price increases this week, introducing the sixth round of markups since the beginning of the year. ...

Ergon said Tuesday that it had begun the process or restarting its Newell, West Virginia, refinery, which was damaged by a May 29 fire. The company di ...

Supply of API Group l base oils is easing somewhat in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, but availability remains snug – especially in Europe – a ...

Concerns about supply shortages seemed to be heightened by the unexpected outage at Ergon’s paraffinic base oil plant in West Virginia last week, wi ...

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.

Calumet, SK Americas, HollyFrontier, Petro-Canada, Paulsboro, Avista Oil and Safety-Kleen announced posted price increases, joining a group of other p ...

Vertex Energy’s black oil segment, which includes its rerefineries and used oil collection business, reported increases in gross profit, income from ...

At last, some signs are materializing of potential downward pressure on base oil prices in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The hints are strongest ...

Base Oil Report: Trends  During what has been an extraordinary year for the base oil industry, various factors have contributed to shortages o ...

The Dog Days of Summer May Be a Thing of the Past Up until a couple of years ago, most base oil market players in the United States started to prep ...

Chevron announced a posted price increase this week, the producer’s second initiative in a month. The company had last marked up prices on April 27, ...

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.

Serbia consumed 54,000 tons of finished lubricants in 2019, but the country recycles only 1.5% of that quantity back into base stocks, and it has a lo ...