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.

Steep crude oil prices and tightening supply continued to place pressure on base oil prices in Asia, although oil prices slumped towards the end of th ...

United States base oil output declined more than 10% in January, compared to the same month last year, and was down 8% from January 2020, a U.S. gover ...

Base oil buyers and suppliers continued to deal with rising costs and supply chain disruptions caused by the ongoing pandemic, massive lockdowns in Ch ...

The effective date is approaching for a European Union ban on purchases from government-controlled Russian oil companies, and industry observers say i ...

Luberef, a base oil joint venture of Saudi Aramco, is considering an initial public stock offering that would aim to raise more than $1 billion, Bloom ...

The conflict in Ukraine is evolving, as Russia possibly shifts its attacks away from Kyiv toward the eastern Donbas region, but the physical damage to ...

Bright stock supply is tight. Fortunately, OCP and PIB can be used to replace the scarce base stock in grease applications.

Despite the ongoing pandemic and tough economic conditions, base oil production in the United States achieved full rebound to pre-pandemic levels in 2 ...

Two years after the completion of Brexit, how are lubricant industry players in the United Kingdom faring?

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has wreaked havoc on the oil and gas industry, prompting base oil producers to up prices once again.

Ray Masson examines how one European base oil supplier has managed to mitigate supply chain issues.

Just when it seemed that the base oils market was slowly returning to pre-pandemic conditions – or at least, resuming more predictable patterns – ...

The dust has started to settle after the whirlwind of posted price adjustments observed the previous two weeks. However, volatility in crude oil and f ...

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.

South Korea’s base oil export volumes remained flat in February for the second consecutive month, compared to the same month last year, according to ...

Crude oil price volatility and unresolved supply chain issues, along with tightening supply and heightened demand resulted in higher base oil prices a ...

More than 500 members of the United Steelworkers union went on strike Monday at Chevron’s refinery in Richmond, California, which has an API Group I ...

Base oil producers responded to the unexpected drop in crude oil pricing last week by rescinding part of their announced posted price increases, altho ...

Nynas AB – one of the world’s largest naphthenic base oil producers and the only large European source – is halting direct sales in North Americ ...