North America

Briefly Noted

August 25, 2026

Fuchs Opens Americas Technology Center in Massachusetts Fuchs has unveiled a new Americas Technology Center in Taunton, Massachusetts, expanding i ...

Exports of finished lubricants produced in the United States fell for the second month in a row in June after reaching their highest level of 2026 in ...

Clean Harbors has agreed to acquire environmental and waste management company EnviroServe for $470 million in cash, expanding its network of faciliti ...

Participants in a Lubes’n’Greases webinar discussed how fall-out from the war between the United States, Israel and Iran has roiled base oil marke ...

Evolving performance standards for passenger car engine oils have narrowed formulator base stock options, making base oil supply more vulnerable to ge ...

Incorrect conclusions and lack of understanding lead the power generation industry to blame Group II base stocks for increasing oil deposits in power ...

Have Engine Oils Become Too Thin? Automobile and lubricant industries in North America have begun the process to develop an engine

August Base Oil Report

August 10, 2026

The Light at the End of the Tunnel Will the fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran hold? Will crude oil and base oil shipments from t ...

China-based Richful Lube Additive Co. Ltd. was in the midst of a large global expansion. Then the European Union sanctioned the company for allegedly ...

Chevron Products Company will expand its North American base oils distribution network through new agreements with HF Sinclair and Renkert Oil, broade ...

HF Sinclair Corp. plans to separate its Lubricants & Specialties business into an independent publicly traded company while retiring its base oil ...

Refineries along the Gulf of Mexico were largely unaffected by Tropical Storm Bertha, which first made landfall in southern Louisiana on Wednesday, Ju ...

Briefly Noted

July 28, 2026

More Growth for Fuchs Fuchs China opened a new specialty lubricant plant in Wujiang, Suzhou, on July 16, expanding its local production capacity fo ...

Shell has completed the sale of its Jiffy Lube business in the United States to an affiliate of Monomoy Capital Partners for U.S.$1.3 billion, while r ...

Valvoline Global will remove Dexos approval labeling from certain Full Synthetic Motor Oil products sold in bulk, tote and drum containers across the ...

The conflict between the United States and Iran has had a devastating effect on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, transforming the global base oi ...

First article in a two-part series from Ernie Henderson examining the history that made base oil markets vulnerable to geopolitical conflict.

Turning the ever-growing mountain of discarded clothing into thickeners.

ABN Resource’s DEI survey reveals a lubricants industry that is deeply divided on this hot-button subject.