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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 ...

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January 7, 2026

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 ...

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December 30, 2025

Caltex Taps Santy Trading as its Bahrain DistributorCaltex Lubricants appointed Santy Trading as its official distributor in Bahrain, expanding access ...

Dumarey Group, a Belgian automotive engineering services company, and Malaysia’s Petronas Lubricants International have begun experimental testing o ...

Valencia, Spain — Regulatory pressure, tariffs and sanctions, evolving lubricant specifications and rising defense and infrastructure spending are r ...

The past year has been one where geopolitical events played major roles in defining a number of base oil markets, imposing restrictions on trading and ...

Base oil prices were largely steady as trading wound down ahead of New Year’s – one of the most important holidays in some countries –when numer ...

Pakelo Motor Oil S.p.A. has completed the acquisition of Uveol Srl, taking full ownership of the Italian specialist in metalworking and industrial lub ...

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board agreed to acquire an indirect, non-controlling stake in Castrol as part of a transaction valued at about $10.1 bi ...

BP agreed to sell a 65% stake in its Castrol lubricants division to U.S. infrastructure investor Stonepeak, in a deal that values the century-old busi ...

INEOS said it will move forward with a £150 million investment at its Grangemouth petrochemical complex in Scotland, supported by UK government finan ...

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December 24, 2025

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

The Technical Association of the European Lubricants Industry (ATIEL) has issued an updated version of its engine oil Code of Practice that, for the f ...

Valencia, Spain – Europe and Asia are rapidly reshaping the rerefined base oil market, emerging as the dominant global hubs as sustainability mandat ...