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.

A bizarre scene has settled over base oil markets where traders and other spot buyers are complaining that product from all base oil groups is simply ...

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. plans to build an API Group III base oil plant at its refinery in Panipat – part of a broader expansion of the northern India ...

Total has decided to permanently close a base oil plant at its refinery in Gonfreville, France, as part of a project to overhaul the Normandy complex. ...

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.

Chinese refiners have opened several API Group III base oil plants in recent years, but for several reasons they do not meet the needs of local lubri ...

European, Middle Eastern and African base oil markets are going through a period never before experienced, with product exceptionally short in all mar ...

AIM, the London Stock Exchange’s market for small and medium growth companies, today issued a notice cancelling trading of United Kingdom-based tran ...

The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the United States base oil market during 2020. It was, as industry veteran Stephen Ames called it, the “year ...

Gen III Oil Corp. announced on Monday that it has contracted Koch Project Solutions to provide engineering, construction and licensed vendor teams for ...

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.

European, Middle Eastern and African base oil markets were rocked by large price hikes caused mainly by a lack of available products for blenders and ...

Vertex Energy’s black oil segment, which includes its rerefineries and used oil collection business, reported a drop in gross profit and a decline i ...

Polyalphaolefins are expensive, available from just a handful of producers and increasingly being replaced in automotive lubricants by alternatives su ...

Bright Stock Steals the Show Over the past several years, base oil market participants have repeatedly heard the mantra that API Group I grades wer ...

Quaker Chemical’s net income more than tripled during the fourth quarter despite a small decrease in sales revenue, while rerefiner Heritage-Crystal ...

United Kingdom-based transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec Group Plc continues working on a refinancing package for its plant in the United States, but i ...

Lukoil last week commissioned a new API Group II base oil plant at its refinery in Volgograd, Russia. The 10 billion ruble (U.S. $132 million) investm ...

Picture a refinery and you probably think of the endless industrial landscape of the Texas Gulf Coast, not the rolling hills and pine forests of Anato ...

Transcending Frontiers Never has the significance of globalization been more evident than at the current time, when a deadly and highly infectious ...