Weekly Americas Base Oil Price Report

Motiva, SK Enmove and Avista Oil announced posted price increases, driven by tight global availability of Group II+ and ...


HF Sinclair to Distribute SK Enmove’s Yubase Group III

SK Enmove and HF Sinclair’s Lubricants & Specialties segment have signed long-term agreements covering the sup...


Chevron Taps HF Sinclair, Renkert for Base Oil Distribution

Chevron Products Company will expand its North American base oils distribution network through new agreements with HF Si...


Gulf Coast Refineries Unscathed by Bertha

Refineries along the Gulf of Mexico were largely unaffected by Tropical Storm Bertha, which first made landfall in south...


Weekly Americas Base Oil Price Report

Market attention partly turned to events happening closer to home than the Middle East conflict this week, as a tropical...


Weekly Americas Base Oil Price Report

Intensifying hostilities between the United States and Iran and the renewed closing of the Strait of Hormuz continued to...


Weekly Americas Base Oil Price Report

With the Strait of Hormuz once again effectively closed to vessel traffic, the chances that fresh crude oil and base oil...


Weekly Americas Base Oil Price Report

Just when the Middle East situation was starting to look up and an increasing number of vessels had been able to transit...


Geopolitics Impacts on Base Oils Part 1: The Rise of Merchant Base Oil Suppliers

First article in a two-part series from Ernie Henderson examining the history that made base oil markets vulnerable to g...


July Base Oil Report

No end in sight to the chaos in the Gulf.