Southwest Dingsheng Energy plans to build a base oil rerefinery in Xi Feng County, Guizhou province. A local government environmental assessment was r ...

Steve Swedberg traces the evolution of used oil from careless disposal to rerefining.

The rapid spread of the coronavirus has triggered economic downturn around the world, and base oil producers have had to roll with the punches by cutt ...

India is a big country with a big thirst for base oils. This traditionally Group I market is continuing its shift toward higher-performance base stock ...

Clean Harbors announced on Monday that its Safety-Kleen subsidiary and all of its waste oil collection businesses will raise prices related to collect ...

Quaker Chemical reported an increase in fourth quarter net income, but a decline for 2019. Its net sales were higher for the quarter and 2019, followi ...

API Group II exports from the United States will shift from Europe to South America and Africa over the next five years as the market adjusts to new p ...

United Kingdom-based transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec Group posted a full-year loss for 2019 and said its revenues declined by more than 22 percent, ...

Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras is seeking to add API Group II base oil production in the country through new installations at its Comperj p ...

The Middle East may be finally kicking its monograde engine oil dependence, but dealing with the disposal of low-grade used oil could galvanize an inc ...

The world's two leading engine oil specification groups have developed a closer working relationship in recent years, which will enable new developmen ...

Refineria di Korsou - the Curacao government entity that owns the Isla Refinery - announced an agreement last week for industrial commodities conglome ...

The trend toward electrified vehicles will mean an increase in demand for API Group III+ base stocks because they will be needed to formulate engine o ...

Seventy-two percent of waste oil generated in Spain in 2018 was refined into base stocks, according to a recent annual progress report by Sigaus, a no ...

Africa recycles less of its used lubricants into base oils than other regions, and several obstacles stand in the way of increasing that amount, indus ...

The trend toward electrified vehicles will mean an increase in demand for Group III+ base stocks because they will be needed to formulate engine oils ...

Base oil producers dream of a utopian market in which they can sell all the product they can make at high margins. Which players are closest to reachi ...

Following the European Commissions adoption last month of a quota on duty-free API Group II base oil imports, industry sources say the measure is alre ...

The United States-China trade war presents an opportunity for Chinese white oil suppliers to grab market share in their domestic market, gaining groun ...

With the IMO 2020 regulation on marine fuels scheduled to take effect in just over a month, vessel operators and ports are still preparing for complia ...