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 ...

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

A base oil producer and a rerefiner have joined the cadre of suppliers that have decreased posted prices over the last several weeks, with Excel Paral ...

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

A majority of producers and rerefiners have decreased posted prices, with Safety-Kleen communicating a fresh decrease this week and Petro-Canada annou ...

Clean Harbors Inc. warned customers that it has “significantly” raised waste oil collection fees to offset depressed base oil, vacuum gas oil and ...

Two additional paraffinic producers joined the group of companies that decreased posted prices this month. HollyFrontier Sinclair/Petro-Canada and Cal ...