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Join Base Oils Editor Gabriela Wheeler and Executive Editor Tim Sullivan as they discuss this month’s Base Oil Report. The current upheaval of base ...

The memorandum of understanding signed by the United States and Iran over the weekend ignited renewed hopes that ongoing hostilities in the Middle Eas ...

Briefly Noted

June 24, 2026

Rowe Beefs Up Sales and Marketing Team ROWE has appointed Thomas Papez as senior vice president of global sales and marketing and a member of its m ...

The European Commission has unconditionally approved Stonepeak Partners LP’s acquisition of a controlling stake in Castrol, clearing a key regulator ...

The on-off peace negotiations between U.S. and Iran appear to continue in Switzerland, although there have been walk-outs from the Tehran contingent f ...

Olin Corp. and Huntsman Corp. are merging to create a chemicals producer with roughly U.S.$12.5 billion in annual revenue and a broader footprint acro ...

Most base oil prices have retreated from their peaks in late April, with the exception of API Group III grades, which were still hovering at all-time ...

A provisional ceasefire and an end to hostilities between the United States and Iran announced at the start of the week immediately caused crude oil f ...

Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign against Russian energy infrastructure reached one of the country’s most important petrochemical center ...

The fallout from the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran has reached China, where refiners have delayed two projects with a combined capacity of 500,000 ...

Australia’s lubricant market is feeling the impact of supply chain disruptions linked to the Middle East conflict, which has sent global base oil pr ...

Markets awoke to news of a tentative ceasefire between the United States and Iran on Monday, fanning hopes of an end to the ongoing conflict and a reo ...

Chinese chemical manufacturer Richful Lube Additives Co. was added Tuesday to the European Commission’s sanctions list for entities accused of provi ...

At the time of writing this report, news is emerging suggesting that a peace arrangement has been reached between the United States and Iran.

A flare-up in hostilities between the United States and Iran pushed a tenuous ceasefire in the Middle East into the unknown, and kept crude oil prices ...

Vietnam has tightened recycling requirements for lubricant marketers and importers under a new extended producer responsibility regime that took effec ...

PKN Orlen will more than double its base oil production capacity by the end of 2026 with the startup of a new heavy base oil unit at its Gdansk refine ...

Briefly Noted

June 10, 2026

Liquid Moly Anti-counterfeit Measure Liqui Moly has rolled out a product authentication system for its motor oils that allows customers to verify p ...

Lubriage, the exclusive distributor of Mannol lubricants in the United Kingdom, ceased trading last week, leaving behind unpaid debts, unpaid staff an ...