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 ...

Turkish waste oil collector Tayras announced that it is building an API Group II rerefinery with enough capacity to process 20 percent of the used lub ...

A group of American researchers claimed last month to have developed a catalyst that effectively recycles plastic grocery bags into lubricating oil an ...

Iraq has emerged as Irans main export market for base oils as the weight of United States sanctions shut down the Islamic Republics traditional trade ...

Chile enacted a law last week that aims to recycle used lubricants by giving producers and end-users responsibilities to help recover waste oils. One ...

Clean Harbors Safety-Kleen segment posted an uptick in revenue and waste oil collection, while HollyFrontiers lubricants and specialty products segmen ...

Heritage-Crystal Cleans oil business segment reported a small decline in revenues for its third quarter, and WD-40 posted steep declines in net income ...

Global finished lubricant demand isn't keeping up with expanding base oil supply, threatening the cash margins of mineral base oil producers, official ...

The loss of market share that API Group I base oils have experienced for many years will likely continue and accelerate, and the rationalization press ...

API Group II base oil has overtaken Group I in terms of global production capacity and will likely continue to distance itself in coming years, but Gr ...