Market Topics

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 ...

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 ...

PSP Posts Jump in Profits

September 17, 2025

Despite a slight dip in revenues, Thai lubricant producer PSP Specialties reported a 37% jump in net profit for the first half of 2025, thanks mostly ...

Oil refiners in the United States produced just 27.2 million barrels of base oil during the first six months of this year, the third-lowest first half ...

Many players from the international lubricants industry are attending the Lube Expo get-together this week in Dusseldorf, Germany, and while that lead ...

An acquisition company made the winning U.S.$10 billion bid for the beleaguered ex-Venezuelan refiner Citgo.

Labor organizations and social activists staged a protest outside a lubricant company where three workers were killed and one was injured during maint ...

China’s expanding transportation infrastructure projects will boost demand for grease-consuming boring machines.

Briefly Noted

September 8, 2025

The European Lubricating Grease Institute has appointed a new association management company to administer its ongoing work on the technical, economic ...

The Labor Day holiday on Sept. 1 officially ushered in the end of the summer driving season in the United States and with it the conclusion of the pea ...

Demand for heavy-duty diesel oils is expected to continue its decline through 2029 in China, largely due to a struggling property market

September Base Oil Report

September 2, 2025

Unfettered production and lackluster demand left U.S. base oil supply and demand in relaxed balance.

This week has seen a surge in demand across all regions for various quantities of base oils. Whether this is as a result of buyers and sellers returni ...

Some market discussions centered on the devastating explosion and fire that occurred at Smitty’s Supply Inc.’s blending plant in Roseland, Louisia ...

Confusion looms over Algeria’s lubricant market this week after the reported lifting of a monopoly on the import of lubes and other products.

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. announced recently that it will expand both of its finished lubricant blending plants in order to accommodate the compa ...

ExxonMobil announced Wednesday that it will upgrade the base oil plant at its Baytown, Texas, refinery, giving it capacity to make 8,000 barrels per d ...