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 ...

While the supply and demand tightness witnessed since late 2020 has started to ease in some base oil segments, the United States market was not overfl ...

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 seasonal slowdown and an increasing number of coronavirus infections, driven by the Delta variant, were acting as a damper to base oil and lubricant ...

Activity has not let up significantly in the United States market despite the summer holidays, with most base stocks seen as hot commodities pursued b ...

The base oil scene is taking on the role of a balancing act on global basis. A number of arbitrage opportunities opening up may have the effect of inc ...

The alarming spread of the Delta strain of the coronavirus was a variable that base oil market participants have started to pay attention to, as it ca ...

Commanding almost as much interest as the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, base oil supply and demand continued to be closely watched by market participants, ...

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

Unboxing July July turned out to be another busy month for base oil market participants, which is a far cry from years past when the summer months ...

A changed scenario started to emerge in Asia, with improved availability of a number of base oil grades encouraging some buyers to dig in their heels ...

It has been another active week in the U.S. base oils market, with no signs of the “dog days of summer” so typical of years past. Demand held at s ...

Prices for certain grades of base oils have fallen sharply over the past few weeks, particularly API Group l grades – some of which have fallen by m ...

After months of extremely tight supply conditions and continuous upward price adjustments, availability of certain base oils has started to improve, b ...

The base oils market remains tight, demand has not let down as it typically does in mid-summer, and feedstock prices hovered at steep levels, maintain ...