Polyalphaolefin

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ExxonMobil LAO Project Pushed Back

December 8, 2021

ExxonMobil’s entry into the linear alpha olefin market has been delayed as a large expansion of the company’s Baytow ...

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ExxonMobil to Raise High-vis PAO Capacity

October 13, 2021

ExxonMobil Synthetics today announced plans to expand the production capacity of its metallocene high viscosity polyalph ...

Base Oil Report: Trends

Base Oil Report: Trends

October 4, 2021

A Time of Transition  The past 18 months have not been particularly wonderful for the active industries involved in ...

How Low Can You Go?

How Low Can You Go?

July 3, 2021

Base Oil Report: TrendsAs governments worldwide pass stricter standards to combat carbon dioxide emissions, lubricant fo ...

Taif Makes Lubes in Nizhnekamsk

Taif Makes Lubes in Nizhnekamsk

March 30, 2021

A finished lubricant blending facility was installed late last year at the site of Russia’s only polyalphaolefin plant ...

PAO Springs Forward

PAO Springs Forward

March 4, 2021

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

Ineos Declares Force Majeure for PAOs

Ineos Declares Force Majeure for PAOs

February 3, 2021

Ineos declared force majeure last month on supply of low-viscosity polyalphaolefins after an unexpected disruption to fe ...

PetroChina Opens Pilot PAO Plant

PetroChina Opens Pilot PAO Plant

January 22, 2021

PetroChina last month opened a pilot plant producing low-viscosity polyalphaolefin in Lanzhou, China, using technology d ...

Base Oil Report: Trends

Base Oil Report: Trends

November 2, 2020

PAOs, Past and PresentPolyalphaolefins will be in the spotlight at the next National Inventors Hall of Fame induction ce ...

Rosneft’s Sales Grew in 2019

Rosneft’s Sales Grew in 2019

July 10, 2020

Rosneft’s domestic lubricant sales grew almost 10% to 712,000 tons in 2019, up from 650,000 tons the year before as ex ...

PAO Blend Steps into the EV Thermal Management Fray

PAO Blend Steps into the EV Thermal Management Fray

May 7, 2020

All vehicles require a range of lubricants, greases, coolants and fluids, and EVs are no exception. Existing base stock ...

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Spotlight Shifts to Synthetic and Naphthenic Base Oils

June 24, 2019

Are the synthetic and naphthenic understudies to paraffinic base oils ready to steal the limelight?

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ExxonMobil to Add its First LAO Plant

May 8, 2019

Industry observers say a new linear alpha olefins unit that ExxonMobil expects to open in 2022 in Baytown, Texas, should ...

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Slower Growth Forecast for PAO Lubes

April 17, 2002

After 18 months of weak demand and dismal pricing in many segments, the market for alphaolefins is beginning to pick up, ...