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 ...

Are we close to the long-anticipated point where chemical safety laws and market expectations become incompatible at an accessible cost? Lubricant for ...

Gleanings from the Industry The process of making lubricants is basically the same regardless of location: Blend base oils with chemical additives ...

Time to Shift Gears?   Despite the fact that 2025 proved to be a challenging year for the base oils and lubricants industry, most market players r ...

HF Sinclair Corp. completed the acquisition of Industrial Oils Unlimited, closing a U.S.$38 million transaction first announced in December 2025. The ...

ABN Acquires US Counterpart ABN Resource, a United Kingdom-based lubricants industry recruitment firm, acquired FindLine Connections, Inc, a well-est ...

January is generally considered a transitional month in that both buyers and sellers assess inventories and product needs for the coming months, with ...

Chile’s Second Environmental Court has heard legal challenges from Copec, Enex and PTH Grupo Ambiental seeking to annul Supreme Decree No. 47/2023, ...

With most players having returned to their posts, business around Europe, the Middle East and Africa has resumed with what appears to be added zest on ...

Trading in Asia’s base oils market was expected to pick up the pace against a background of growing geopolitical tensions on several fronts. Some of ...

In an open letter from the Union of the European Lubricant Industry (UEIL) to the European Commission, the union’s president, Mattia Adani, warns th ...

Kawasaki New Synthetic 4-stroke Bike OilKawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. has launched a new synthetic 4-stroke racing motorcycle oil  ...

Fuchs and Windey Innovolts validated the long-term stability of an immersion energy storage system following more than 3,000 hours of continuous testi ...

Ingevity has completed the sale of its North Charleston, South Carolina crude tall oil refinery and most of its Performance Chemicals Industrial Speci ...

Saudi Arabian base oil refiner Luberef and national oil company Saudi Aramco are evaluating the feasibility of an API Group III base oil manufacturing ...

This week sees the return to work for many participants in the base oil industry who have been on holiday during the past couple of weeks.

Weekly Asia Base Oil Price Report Gabriela Wheeler – January 5, 2026 Similar conditions to those seen during the last weeks of 2025 ...

The base oils market was understandably quiet during the last few days of the year, with the recent posted price decreases having been implemented for ...