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Freezing temperatures and heavy snow blanketed large swaths of the United States and Canada this week, knocking out power, disrupting transportation a ...

Co-developed by Tongyi Lubricants, the group standard “Technical Specification for Green Design Product Assessment of Degradable Lubricants for Hydr ...

Liz Cisneros, base oils technology manager at Motiva Enterprises, has been appointed chair of the American Petroleum Institute (API) Base Oil Intercha ...

Briefly Noted

January 28, 2026

Mercedes-Benz Engine Oils for the Senior AutomobileMercedes-Benz Classic has introduced a new range of engine oils designed for vintage and young clas ...

The United Kingdom Lubricants Association has published new guidance governing how performance and safety claims are marketed for metalworking fluids, ...

ExxonMobil has begun construction on a major expansion of API Group III base oil production at its Baytown complex in Texas. The expansion is aimed at ...

The European Union’s sanctions on oil products produced using Russian crude oil appear to have been badly thought through. Material such as jet fuel ...

The Asian base oils market has been like a giant that is taking its time to awaken, since the potential for business is robust, but demand continues t ...

Briefly Noted

January 21, 2026

New Depot for U.S. LubricantsU.S. Lubricants has opened a new distribution warehouse in the Philadelphia area, expanding its operations and service ca ...

The South Coast Air Quality Management District is proposing to phase out the use of p-chlorobenzotrifluoride and tert-butyl acetate in metalworking f ...

Career Moves

January 21, 2026

Chevron OroniteChevron Oronite made Laurent Jumelle as its new president, following the transition of Cary Knuth to a different leadership role within ...

Base oil activity proceeded at a moderate pace this week, partly dampened by the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday on Jan. 19, with suppliers not ...

ILSAC GF-8 engine oil development teams are continuing work on the next passenger car engine oil category for North America, with a target market intr ...

The European Union’s 18th package of sanctions on Russia will have little effect on base oil markets or revenues, according to a senior base oil tra ...

This week the news is rotating around the implementation of new European Union and United Kingdom sanctions on material produced using Russian crude i ...

With few definite indications whether lubricant demand will strengthen in the next few weeks, Asian buyers have taken a wait-and-see approach and were ...

The geography, quality and scale of global base oil supply has fundamentally changed over the past two decades. Global production capacity has swollen ...

The sustainability movement is viewed as a big opportunity for businesses offering biolubricants — a stimulator of government policy and business an ...

A global oversupply of base oils weighed on U.S. base oil margins through 2025 and is expected to keep pressure on the market into 2026 as production ...