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Weekly Americas Base Oil Price Report

January 29, 2025

News that ExxonMobil and HollyFrontier announced a posted price increase hit the market this week, with rerefiner Safety ...

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Weekly Americas Base Oil Price Report

January 22, 2025

While there have been few changes on the demand side, supply could be affected by refinery decisions regarding fuels pro ...

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Weekly Americas Base Oil Price Report

January 15, 2025

Market attention turned to surging crude oil and feedstock prices this week, as the higher values were anticipated to pl ...

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ALS Buys Chemlube’s Lube Division

January 10, 2025

Advanced Lubrication Specialties has bought Chemlube International LLC’s lubricants division, which features a finishe ...

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Weekly Americas Base Oil Price Report

January 8, 2025

Halfway into January and business was scant. Participants were still optimistic that activity in the domestic market wou ...

EPA Calls Formaldehyde Health Risk

EPA Calls Formaldehyde Health Risk

January 8, 2025

The Unite States Environmental Protection Agency formally concluded last week that formaldehyde poses an unreasonable he ...

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Weekly Americas Base Oil Price Report

January 1, 2025

The New Year was expected to usher in more export negotiations as domestic activity remained muted. United States suppli ...

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Weekly Americas Base Oil Price Report

December 25, 2024

Editor’s note: Gabriela Wheeler is away on vacation this week and will return next week. Base oil posted prices in the ...

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Weekly Americas Base Oil Price Report

December 18, 2024

With domestic demand showing few signs of improving, base oil producers in the United States have been focusing on concl ...

Ingevity Spends on Charleston Plant

Ingevity Spends on Charleston Plant

December 11, 2024

United States-based chemical maker Ingevity will invest more than U.S.$53 million into a facility near its headquarters ...

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Weekly Americas Base Oil Price Report

December 11, 2024

Base oil prices were steady in the United States this week, as demand remained flat and suppliers preferred to keep offe ...

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Cerilon GTL Plant Receives Permit

December 11, 2024

Cerilon, the start-up company working to build North America’s first gas-to-liquids base oil plant, said Tuesday that ...

September U.S. Base Oil Imports Jump

September U.S. Base Oil Imports Jump

December 11, 2024

Lubricant makers in the United States gobbled up record quantities of imported base stocks in September, according to re ...

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Weekly Americas Base Oil Price Report

December 4, 2024

Mounting supplies and the need to clear inventories ahead of year-end continued to exert downward pressure on some base ...

Axel Royal Back in Operation After Fire

Axel Royal Back in Operation After Fire

November 27, 2024

An investigation is ongoing into the cause of a fire at Axel Royal’s Tulsa factory last Tuesday. The blaze sent plumes ...

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Weekly Americas Base Oil Price Report

November 27, 2024

A base oil producer and a rerefiner have joined the cadre of suppliers that have decreased posted prices over the last s ...

ReGen III Secures More Funding

ReGen III Secures More Funding

November 27, 2024

Waste oil rerefiner ReGen III aims to be the world’s largest producer of regenerated API Group III base oil when the ...

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Americas Weekly Base Oil Price Report

November 20, 2024

A majority of producers and rerefiners have decreased posted prices, with Safety-Kleen communicating a fresh decrease th ...