ExxonMobil is expected to announce within days that it will offer motor oil licensedto General Motors Dexos motor oil specification, while Castrol has taken a pass on licensing. According to sources, ExxonMobil will offer motor oils under an official GM Dexos license. However, ExxonMobil has nothing to announce at this time, company spokeswoman Kristen Hellmer told Lube Report yesterday. As reported in Jobbers World Aug. 26, Castrol has advised its marketers it decided not to officially licens...

After a somewhat hesitant start to the year, U.S. base oil refiners stomped firmly on the accelerator to generate 29.2 million barrels through the end of June, according to data released last week by the Energy Information Administration. That’s a marked improvement (17 percent) over the 25 million barrels they produced in the first half of 2009. While falling short of the muscular levels seen in 2006, 2007 and 2008 — years when first-half base oil production shot past 32 million ba...

Global rerefined base oil supply in 2009 amounted to 1.6 million tons per year, and is forecast to reach 3 million tons by 2019. But its potential market today is over 7 million tons, according to Kline and Co. Only 16 percent of collected used oil is rerefined, while 78 percent is used as fuel, said Milind Phadke, energy manager at the Little Falls, N.J.-based consultancy, during the Global Used Oils 2009 webinar presentation yesterday. Global regulation ofwaste oil disposal varies significantl...

Amalie Oil is gearing up to add more employees and space, pending completion of a new lease agreement with the Tampa Port Authority. Its Tampa operation now has 400,000 square feet of space, and Amalie plans to add up to 100,000 square feet of manufacturing space to that, Denny Madden, Amalies senior vice president of global sales and marketing, told Lube Report. The expansion is also expected to increase exports of containers through the port. Well need hourly workers, supervisors and managers...

Bharat Petroleum of India and Oman Oil Marketing Co. will jointly study the possibility of setting up a lube blending plant in Oman and marketing its products in neighboring countries, the India ministry of commerce and industry said Monday. The announcement followed the sixth Indo-Oman Joint Commission Meeting in Muscat, Omans capital city, on Sunday. The meeting reviewed bilateral economic relations and means of improving trade between the two countries. Shri Anand Sharma, minister of commer...

Unconventional base stocks offer uncommon performance, and Lubes’n’Greases has completely updated its 2010 global guide listing more than 180 plants that produce PAO, PIB, PAG, esters and other chemistries that are the backbone of most synthetic lubricants. The new 2010 Nonconventional Base Stock Guide from LubesnGreases magazine shows the key manufacturers of seven fluid types, with plant locations plotted on a world map and capacities listed where relevant. Products include polyal...