Crude oil price volatility and unresolved supply chain issues, along with tightening supply and heightened demand resulted in higher base oil prices a ...

Base oil producers responded to the unexpected drop in crude oil pricing last week by rescinding part of their announced posted price increases, altho ...

The war in Ukraine continues with significant loss of life reported for both sides. The economic consequences of the conflict are yet to be fully visi ...

Base oil prices reacted to the reverberations felt in energy and financial markets as several countries imposed more sanctions on Russian exports in a ...

More United States base oil producers announced posted price increases this week, which will be implemented in addition to the markups that went into ...

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.

Markets were convulsed by the sudden and sharp upsurge in crude oil prices as numerous countries imposed sanctions on Russian commercial transactions ...

Sky-high crude oil prices precipitated an avalanche of base oil price initiatives, both on the paraffinic and the naphthenic sides of the market – t ...

Western governments are considering bans on Russian crude oil and petroleum products, actions that could seriously disrupt base oil and lubricant mark ...

Market participants were trying to assess what impact the sanctions imposed on Russia as a consequence of its invasion of Ukraine would have on the ba ...

Paulsboro, Avista Oil, Safety-Kleen and SK Lubricants Americas implemented posted price increases during the week, following similar initiatives by ot ...

Editor’s note: Due to an editing error, last week's issue of this column initially contained a previously published report. The correct version was ...

Base oil prices were exposed to upward pressure as certain market segments displayed further tightening of supplies, while crude oil and feedstock pri ...

ExxonMobil, Calumet, Excel Paralubes, HollyFrontier and Petro-Canada have joined Motiva and Chevron in communicating posted price increases for paraff ...

The standoff between Russia and Ukraine may be a localized conflict, but an invasion by Russia has global implications and potential to cause mayhem a ...

Base oil pricing in Asia was stable to firm, supported by revived demand and steep crude oil and feedstock costs. After several months of being expose ...

Two paraffinic base oil producers nominated posted price increases with effective dates this week, while naphthenic markups were in the process of imp ...

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.

Base oil market activity has started to improve in many Asian nations as participants returned to business following the Lunar New Year holidays, whil ...

Naphthenic base oil price increases will be going into effect this week, after several producers nominated 25 cents-per-gallon hikes on the back of st ...