While the number of COVID-19 cases has started to fall in many countries, leading to a relaxation of pandemic-related restrictions, others were still ...

Ergon announced a naphthenic base oils price increase this week, joining other producers who have lifted values on the back of tight supply, climbing ...

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.

Many countries in Asia have started to relax pandemic-related restrictions and have given up their zero-COVID policies as they slowly rolled out vacci ...

San Joaquin Refining communicated a price increase for its naphthenic base oils on the heels of similar initiatives by Cross Oil and Calumet. A tight ...

Base oil markets throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa are mostly showing weakening demand across all types of products, although some groups ...

Improved supply levels and more prudent buying trends continued to exert downward pressure on Asian spot prices, although a number of base oil grades ...

Cross Oil and Calumet announced price increases for their naphthenic oils this week. Base oil and lubricant market participants were coping with trans ...

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 more cautious buyers’ attitude and higher availability levels have resulted in softer market conditions in Asia, with prices reflecting the changi ...

Many households and businesses were still recovering from the impact of Hurricane Ida, which battered large swaths of the Southeast and Northeast of t ...

Expectations for a surge in demand after the holiday period in August appear to have been misjudged, based on trading during the first week of Septemb ...

Improved availability of most grades and a seasonal slowdown, together with the spread of the Delta variant and localized restrictions in various coun ...

Base oil facilities along the United States Gulf Coast appeared to largely avoid damage over the weekend from Hurricane Ida, but the market was still ...

Turning Down the Heat Just like the Olympic flame was extinguished in Tokyo in early August following the completion of an unusual and challenging ...

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.

The downward price trend observed in Asian base oil markets persisted, but the reductions were more moderate than in the previous week, as some segmen ...

Conflicting currents roiled the United States base oils market, as healthy demand and limited availability in some segments exerted upward pressure, w ...

Fundamentals in European, Middle Eastern and African base oil markets are vastly different from those in Asia-Pacific and the United States, creating ...

Base oil prices were generally softer this week in Asia, but conditions varied from segment to segment. Some of the heavy grades, which had seen verti ...