The COVID-19 pandemic is once again tightening its grip on many markets – with Europe and the Americas seeing the biggest increases in caseloads and ...

Just like the coronavirus pandemic has affected various countries to differing degrees, it has also impacted the various base oil segments in disparat ...

Several paraffinic producers, including Chevron, Calumet, HollyFrontier, Petro-Canada, Safety-Kleen, SK Americas and ExxonMobil, communicated price i ...

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.

Availability of a number of base oil grades continued to tighten, as weather-related output and transportation disruptions in the United States, South ...

The market returned to business following the Labor Day holiday on Monday to find that Motiva had communicated a posted price increase for its API Gro ...

Base oil trade has been dull the past few weeks, perhaps because of the summer recess, although the re-emergence of a number of outbreaks of the coron ...

Supply and demand seem to have a tendency to achieve balance, and even in markets that appear long, unexpected events might help attain that equilibri ...

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

Base oil suppliers had expressed some concern about the possibility that inventories would start to mount, given a seasonal demand slowdown during the ...

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.

Global base oil supply tightened in recent weeks due to trimmed operating rates at a large number of plants, combined with a spike in demand following ...

Market attention shifted from the coronavirus pandemic and the presidential elections to developments related to Tropical Storms Marco and Laura, whic ...

Globally, green shoots are appearing in some base oil markets as demand starts to rebuild after some eight months of COVID-19. The original areas affe ...

A combination of reduced operating rates at most base oil plants, recent and imminent turnarounds, and steady demand resulted in a tightening of base ...

While some segments of the base oils market saw steady demand, others experienced a slowdown, caused by the winding down of the summer season and magn ...

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 Asian base oils market showed a few pockets of tight spot supply, thought to have been brought about by reduced refinery operating rates, an uptic ...

The summer doldrums were setting in over the base oils market, although they appeared to be of a different nature than in years past, as uncertainties ...

As the effects of COVID-19 continue to take their toll on base oil markets, some light may be at the end of the tunnel, which could offer hope that ec ...