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Base Oil Report

LNG Magazine - August 19, 2019

Although the base oil market had slipped into easy-going summer mode, the advent of hurricane season is preventing parti ...

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Base Oil Report

July 22, 2019

Gabriela Wheeler points to resilience as a key trait of successful base oil producers.

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Base Oil Report

June 24, 2019

Gabriela Wheeler examines how adverse weather can rain on base oil producers parade.

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Spotlight Shifts to Synthetic and Naphthenic Base Oils

June 24, 2019

Are the synthetic and naphthenic understudies to paraffinic base oils ready to steal the limelight?

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Publishers Letter

May 21, 2019

For the first time, API Group II base oil capacity has surpassed Group I capacity. This should surprise no one whos been ...

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Need to Know

May 21, 2019

Tom Glenn examines the difference between the way API classifies base oil groups and how the market classifies them.

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Base Oil Report

May 21, 2019

Gabriela Wheeler says its better late than never for the spring uptick in base oil trading.

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Growth Sprouts in the Shadows of the Andes

April 15, 2019

Little-understood markets in South America could be cultivating opportunities for lubes.

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Base Oil Report

April 15, 2019

Gabriela Wheeler examines the first rumbles of spring base oil price moves.

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2018 Base Oils Flowed Unimpeded

March 19, 2019

U.S. base oil producers hit a 20-year high mark during the year that nothing happened.

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Base Oil Report

March 19, 2019

Gabriela Wheeler wonders whether a placid base oil market is just the calm before a storm of demand.

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Publishers Letter

February 19, 2019

API Group II base oils seem to be dominating the limelight these days. (See Page 30 for a feature on the Group II market ...

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Mexico Demands Quality

February 19, 2019

With new national lube standards on the books and the latest trade agreement in place, the country is pushing toward bet ...

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Base Oil Report

February 19, 2019

If base oil producers were asked to pick a word to banish from everyday vocabulary, oversupply would probably be the top ...

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Base Oil Report

January 22, 2019

Gabriela Wheeler encourages optimism in a base oil market filled with uncertainty.

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Base Oil Report

December 14, 2018

Like a beaver laying down logs to build a dam, base oil producers kept busy with several price reductions in late fall, ...

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Base Oil Report

November 12, 2018

ExxonMobils imminent startup of its Rotterdam facility is likely to cause shifts in the movement of API Group II base oi ...