Activity in Asia remained unseasonably lively, and pricing was firm, despite the fact that buying appetite tends to languish during the last month of ...

With crude oil prices rising to eight-month highs over the week, base oil supply remaining very tight and a number of producers having announced price ...

Base oil markets – like the rest of the world – have been encouraged by preliminary results from trials for COVID-19 vaccines, and some insiders a ...

Farewell, 2020! Who wants to hold onto 2020? Most people will probably be happy when it is finally over. Aside from a few bright spots here and the ...

Like many other aspects of 2020 that have been rather atypical, demand in the Asian base oils market remained robust in November, contradicting season ...

Despite the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday on Nov. 26 and the typical seasonal slowdown as the year-end approaches, demand in the U.S. base oil market ...

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.

Pockets of brisk activity occurred in most countries in Asia, while others started to feel the typical slowdown of the weeks leading to the year-end h ...

Two API Group II+ and Group III producers, Phillips 66 and SK Americas, communicated posted price increases this week. This was a slightly unusual dev ...

With most of mainland Europe and key locations in the Middle East and Africa still in some form of lockdown, economies are contracting, eroding demand ...

Pockets of brisk activity occurred in most countries in Asia, while others started to feel the typical slowdown of the weeks leading to the year-end h ...

Participants turned their attention once again to market developments, following a tumultuous week that featured a contentious United States president ...

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 trading continued at a steady clip in Asia, despite concerns about the potential effects on crude oil and refined products of a surge in coro ...

The United States presidential election and the resurgence of coronavirus infections resulted in muffled activity in the base oils market this week. T ...

With most of mainland Europe moving toward another period of lockdown, the future for base oils throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa looks bl ...

Strike While the Iron Is Hot Demand for base oils has been surprisingly healthy, despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that continued to claim l ...

When It Rains, It Pours The world—and more specifically, the base oils and lubricants industry—can’t seem to get a break. Just when market co ...

Even increases in base stock prices couldn’t break through the gloom of coronavirus this season, says Gabriela Wheeler.

As lockdowns eased and demand began to pick up, base oil prices were also on the rise, reports Gabriela Wheeler.