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October Base Oil Report

September 26, 2025

Demand appears set to decline and inventories to grow, as Gabriela Wheeler explains.

Raises have slowed and job satisfaction risen, but workers cite leadership concerns.

Castrol, one of the oldest and biggest lubricant businesses is up for sale. Where is the interest?

Maintaining old tests and making new ones back serviceable.

The need for next-generation lubricants that optimize performance is now greater than ever.

Dexron-VI: The Test of Time

September 26, 2025

A 20-year look back at the development of a landmark automatic transmission fluid specification.

The just-completed expansion of ExxonMobil’s base oil plant on Singapore’s Jurong Island makes it the largest such facility in the world – by fa ...

Mexican authorities have launched an investigation into customs offices nationwide over allegations that imported fuel was being misdeclared as lubric ...

Some base oil cuts were exposed to downward pressure due to sluggish demand and mounting supplies, but others maintained steady pricing because of mor ...

ExxonMobil has completed the most recent expansion of its API Group II base oil plant on Singapore’s Jurong Island.

TRA published a Statement of Essential Facts concerning the ongoing investigation into product dumping.

Liqui Moly starts production in Thailand, a company first.

As the calendar passed the autumn equinox this week, marking when  the sun’s path moves from the Northern to the Southern Hemisphere, base oil mark ...

Base oil prices were generally holding in Asia, although there was still downward pressure on the heavy viscosity grades because supplies outpaced con ...

Briefly Noted

September 22, 2025

WearCheck, a condition-monitoring specialist based in Durban, South Africa, launched a new website for its lubricant-management division, Lubrigard. T ...

Briefly Noted

September 17, 2025

Lubrizol in Pakistan. Valvoline Cummins colab with Mahindra and Mahindra. Motul to Supply MacLaren.

Slowing demand from some lubricant segments resulted in lengthening base oil supplies, diminishing support for a number of spot indications. As more s ...

Ingevity has reached an agreement to sell its crude tall oil refinery in North Charleston, South Carolina, the latest in a series of restructuring ste ...

Fuchs has partnered with KCF Technologies to help manufacturers reduce downtime and operating costs by addressing lubrication-related failures in real ...

Peruvian lubricant supplier Viskosil Industries won a trademark infringement judgement last month against competitor Vistony, which was found to have ...