Gabriela Wheeler is away. Her column will reappear in the Jan. 1 edition of Lube Report Americas.

Base oil markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa are extremely muted on the trading front, although a number of cargoes are moving to export des ...

Gabriela Wheeler discusses the stability of the market as 2019 came to a close.

As the year comes to an end, oversupply and soft demand continued to afflict the base oils market in Asia. While these fundamentals exerted downward p ...

With the approach of the holidays, activity in the base oils market has started to wind down, with suppliers and buyers appearing more satisfied with ...

As happens this time of year, many base oil buyers have largely ceased activity for the remainder of the year, yet a few pockets of action continue.- ...

Softening demand against abundant supply continued to weigh on base oil prices in Asia, but an upturn in crude oil values offset some of the downward ...

The consensus at the ICIS Pan American Base Oils & Lubricants Conference in Jersey City, New Jersey, last week was that base oil supply was still abun ...

Throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa, base oils are under downward pricing pressure, though to varying degrees and for different reasons.- by ...

The ongoing base oil supply glut, together with thin margins, were driving Asian producers to reduce operating rates and increase fuel production, as ...

It appears that the strategies implemented by a number of producers to manage inventories at a time when supply tends to lengthen worked, as availabil ...

Dynamics for base oils in Europe, the Middle East and Africa are varying these days based on product group and region. The traditional seasonal slowdo ...

The downward pressure on Asian base oil pricing generated by ample supply and tepid demand was partly offset by strengthening crude oil and feedstock ...

The sedate pace seen over the last few weeks in the base oils market deepened with the approach of the Thanksgiving holiday that will be celebrated in ...

Base oil demand is sluggish throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa as lackluster economic activity has turned a normally slow season deathly qu ...

The Indian government plans to sell its 53.29 percent stake in Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd., an oil and gas company that is one of the countrys largest ...

Economic uncertainties and a decline in base oil demand from downstream lubricant segments, together with the approach of the year-end holidays, conti ...

Despite softer market fundamentals, posted base oil prices were holding steady, with some discounts granted on a case-by-case basis.-by Gabriela Wheel ...

Base oil prices around the European, Middle Eastern and African markets are muted due to a mounting oversupply situation that is growing by the day.- ...

Sluggish demand and ample supply continued to afflict base oil prices in Asia, despite producers efforts to stave off decreases given firm feedstock v ...