Receding crude oil and feedstock prices have reduced some of the pressure on base oil values that had been present since early in the year, although p ...

Base oil prices were generally stable as demand fundamentals have not changed significantly since last week and supply was adequate to cover current r ...

The dust seems to have settled after recent price initiatives affected some base oil cuts. A group of producers called for posted price increases beca ...

Calumet joined the group of base oil producers that had announced posted price increases last week, with these adjustments going into effect Feb. 1-7. ...

The United States on Tuesday walked back tariffs scheduled to take effect that day on goods imported from Canada and Mexico – at least delaying what ...

United States refiners produced a modest 4.4 million barrels of base oil in November, according to new data from the federal Energy Information Admini ...

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

While there have been few changes on the demand side, supply could be affected by refinery decisions regarding fuels production versus base oils, as c ...

Market attention turned to surging crude oil and feedstock prices this week, as the higher values were anticipated to place upward pressure on base oi ...

Advanced Lubrication Specialties has bought Chemlube International LLC’s lubricants division, which features a finished lube blending plant and in S ...

Halfway into January and business was scant. Participants were still optimistic that activity in the domestic market would gradually pick up over the ...

The Unite States Environmental Protection Agency formally concluded last week that formaldehyde poses an unreasonable health risk to workers and consu ...

The New Year was expected to usher in more export negotiations as domestic activity remained muted. United States suppliers have resorted to exporting ...

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

With domestic demand showing few signs of improving, base oil producers in the United States have been focusing on concluding export transactions as a ...

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

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

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

Lubricant makers in the United States gobbled up record quantities of imported base stocks in September, according to recent data published by the Ene ...

Mounting supplies and the need to clear inventories ahead of year-end continued to exert downward pressure on some base oil grades, but an unexpected ...