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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HollyFrontier announced a posted price decrease for most of its API Group I base stocks this week, in the wake of similar initiatives by Chevron, Exxo ...

With demand not expected to pick up in earnest until February, when many consumers start to build inventories for the spring lubricant production seas ...

The European Commission published its automotive package, outlining initial measures aimed at aligning the bloc’s decarbonization goals with competi ...