Energy markets once again appear to be taking in stride dramatic developments in the Middle East – the type of drama that in the past often triggere ...

Swedish chemical company Perstorp last week announced it had bought OQ Chemicals’ Dutch esters manufacturing facility.

Some base oil grades seem to be experiencing a temporary tightening, leading to buyer anxiety about potential shortages and steeper price ideas, but t ...

The rapid and surprising fall of Bashar Al Assad’s regime in Syria heralds a new day in that long embattled country. It also raises the prospect of ...

Base oil prices were steady in the United States this week, as demand remained flat and suppliers preferred to keep offers unchanged because downward ...

Cerilon, the start-up company working to build North America’s first gas-to-liquids base oil plant, said Tuesday that it has obtained one of the fin ...

Germany-based OQ Chemicals announced it will increase prices for its range of carboxylic acids.

In the absence of decisive trading activity, base oil prices were steady with only a couple of grades showing upward revisions given a tight supply an ...

Mounting supplies and the need to clear inventories ahead of year-end continued to exert downward pressure on some base oil grades, but an unexpected ...

Departing from normal seasonal cycles, there are few indications of base oil refiners looking to sell off inventory prior to the end of this year.

There has been a general decline in base oil consumption levels as the year-end approaches and downstream lubricant demand prospects remain uncertain. ...

As the year is nearing its end, base oil prices are edging down. Gabriela Wheeler explains why.

A base oil producer and a rerefiner have joined the cadre of suppliers that have decreased posted prices over the last several weeks, with Excel Paral ...

Waste oil rerefiner ReGen III aims to be the world’s largest producer of regenerated API Group III base oil when the company commissions its plant ...

The headline-grabbing geopolitical events during the past few days may have implications for energy markets and, more specifically, base oils’ compl ...

Some base oil segments continued to see steady demand as uptake from a few downstream applications was fairly brisk while supplies were strained. At t ...

A majority of producers and rerefiners have decreased posted prices, with Safety-Kleen communicating a fresh decrease this week and Petro-Canada annou ...

Madrid – Avista Green will undertake an expansion of its used lubricant rerefinery in Kalundborg, Denmark, and aims to increase the facility’s bas ...

View from Banting, Malaysia, site of Pentas Flora’s waste oil rerefinery.

Chile recently adopted an extended responsibility law that will require lubricant suppliers to ensure that their products are recycled after use.