North America

Excel Paralubes communicated a posted price increase this week, hot on the heels of a previous round of price adjustments for API Group I, II and II+ ...

Additional base oil producers joined those suppliers that had announced posted price increases last week by stepping out with initiatives of their own ...

Profit Up for WD-40

April 20, 2022

WD-40 Co. reported net income of $19.5 million for its second quarter ending Feb. 28, a 13% increase compared to the same quarter last year.

Mexico’s government nationalized the country’s nascent lithium industry this week as legislators approved President Andrés Manuel López Obrado ...

Several base oil producers communicated posted price increases this week, thought to have been prompted by steep crude oil prices, along with prospect ...

A Mexican government agency complained recently that fuel smuggling in the country has more than doubled since 2018 and now accounts for a fifth of th ...

Base oil market participants were keeping a vigilant eye on crude oil pricing, as values continued to show wild fluctuations, linked to developments i ...

United States base oil output declined more than 10% in January, compared to the same month last year, and was down 8% from January 2020, a U.S. gover ...

Base oil buyers and suppliers continued to deal with rising costs and supply chain disruptions caused by the ongoing pandemic, massive lockdowns in Ch ...

Despite the ongoing pandemic and tough economic conditions, base oil production in the United States achieved full rebound to pre-pandemic levels in 2 ...

The dust has started to settle after the whirlwind of posted price adjustments observed the previous two weeks. However, volatility in crude oil and f ...

Perimeter Solutions SA’s oil additives business reported lower earnings and sales for the fourth quarter and lower earnings and higher sales for the ...

Ted Selby, founder of the Savant Group and a giant in the field of lubricant testing, died Monday at the age of 93. Over a career of more than six dec ...

More than 500 members of the United Steelworkers union went on strike Monday at Chevron’s refinery in Richmond, California, which has an API Group I ...

Base oil producers responded to the unexpected drop in crude oil pricing last week by rescinding part of their announced posted price increases, altho ...

Lubricant producer Champion Brands LLC was slapped with a $130,243 fee by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to release annual ...

Nynas AB – one of the world’s largest naphthenic base oil producers and the only large European source – is halting direct sales in North Americ ...

More United States base oil producers announced posted price increases this week, which will be implemented in addition to the markups that went into ...

Vertex Energy Inc. reported large increases in gross profit and revenues for the quarter ended Dec. 31 and full year 2021 for its used motor oil colle ...

Lubrizol announced last week that it appointed board of directors Chairwoman Mary Rhinehart to the additional posts of president and chief executive o ...