The pace of business slowed in many Asian countries, as buyers preferred to end the year with lean base oil inventories and suppliers also strove to a ...

Clean Harbors Inc. warned customers that it has “significantly” raised waste oil collection fees to offset depressed base oil, vacuum gas oil and ...

Brazilian refiners continued making base oil at a steady pace in September, churning out 49,000 kiloliters, according to the latest data from the coun ...

Lingering uncertainties about upcoming demand in downstream segments kept the base oil business somewhat muted in Asia, although some grades seemed to ...

Two additional paraffinic producers joined the group of companies that decreased posted prices this month. HollyFrontier Sinclair/Petro-Canada and Cal ...

Base oil markets, like much of the world, are anticipating potential impacts from the United States presidential election last week, and many in the i ...

Additional base oil posted price decreases emerged this week, with Motiva and Chevron announcing fresh adjustments. Prices were under pressure given l ...

Base oil prices around Europe, the Middle East and Africa are mixed, with values firming in some areas but weakening in others, such as mainland Europ ...

ChainCraft explains how it uses a non-GMO fermentation process to upcycle food waste into medium-chain fatty acids.

Geopolitical conflict, severe weather systems, a longshoremen’s strike and more induced some anxiety in the base oil market in September and early O ...

Base oil prices remained exposed to downward pressure due to lackluster demand, growing supplies, a need for suppliers to place extra barrels, and fal ...

Base oil imports to China fell 35% in September, compared to the same month of 2023, as 2024’s demand for foreign base stocks continued running behi ...

Italy is the European Union’s leading collector and regenerator of waste oil, said the head of the country's waste oil consortium at an environmenta ...

A report last week that Russia has provided shipping data to Houthi rebels disclosed Russia’s complicity in attacks on vessels in the Red Sea, which ...

Reports suggested that base oil prices continued diverging in Asia. Values for some grades fell on growing supplies, many remained steady on balanced ...

While prices for most base oil grades were stable, SK Enmove communicated a posted price decrease on its Group II+ and API Group III prices this week. ...

United States refiners produced 5 million barrels of base oil in July as this year’s output continued to run ahead of last year but behind 2021 and ...

The wars in the Middle East and Ukraine have caused significant disruptions to base oil and finished lubricant trading patterns across Europe, the Mid ...

Some buyers and sellers appeared to have adopted a wait-and-see position as uncertainties continued to cloud the price situation in Asia. Crude oil an ...

The two major conflicts, in Ukraine and in the Middle East, continue to dominate the headlines with continuing Israeli strikes in Lebanon and Gaza to ...