While base oil demand has slowed down, as most participants seemed comfortable with the inventories they have built and were holding enough product to ...

The base oils market has slipped into a summer slumber, with activity in downstream markets slowing and base oil orders consequently weakening. Even s ...

Inventory-building efforts during hurricane season, steady demand from some downstream segments, recent plant outages and ongoing export business have ...

Following Hurricane Beryl, which made landfall on the United States Gulf Coast earlier this month, many participants have increased inventory building ...

Operators shutdown a sewage plant in Castlegar, a town in British Columbia, Canada, after illegally dumped engine oil in the sewer contaminated the tr ...

Damage caused by Hurricane Beryl was less severe than expected, although there were numerous fatalities and many homes and businesses were without pow ...

All eyes turned toward the United States Gulf Coast early this week, as Hurricane Beryl, the first major hurricane of the season, barreled over large ...

Many base oil producers and consumers have been busy building inventories to meet product needs should output disruptions occur during the hurricane s ...

Many base oil producers and consumers have been busy building inventories to meet product needs should output disruptions occur during the hurricane s ...

Sales at oil change and lubrication shops in the United States rose 14% to $8 billion in 2023, continuing a trend of year-on-year increases since decl ...

Gabriela Wheeler is away this week, but her market commentary will resume in the June 26 edition of Lube Report Americas.

The Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, one of the foremost lubricant technical associations in North America, announced the launch of ...

A tight supply and demand scenario for the light viscosity grades offered support to current posted prices, but pushed spot indications up as availabi ...

The United States exported 16% more base oil in March – including hefty increases in volumes to India, Ecuador and the United Arab Emirates, accordi ...

United States exports of automotive, diesel and marine engine oils rose 14% by value in 2023, while imports of those materials declined 28%, according ...

Cerilon announced that it is moving into the front-end engineering and design phase of the gas-to-liquids refinery it plans to build in North Dakota, ...

Base oil production in the United States jumped 23% in March, to attain its highest volume in almost two years, according to data released by the U.S. ...

Suppliers reported steady requirements from most segments of the United States base oils market, with many buyers and sellers focusing on building inv ...

Base oil market activity was expected to resume at a steadier pace after slowing down over the Memorial Day holiday on May 27. Orders had shown an upt ...

Base oil suppliers noticed a burst of activity ahead of the Memorial Day holiday on May 27, which unofficially marks the start of the summer driving s ...