Weekly Americas Base Oil Price Report

Firm crude oil and feedstock prices and a fairly tight supply and demand balance continued to exert upward pressure on b...


Weekly Americas Base Oil Price Report

Additional posted price increase notifications emerged this week, with Chevron and Petro-Canada informing customers of p...


Weekly Americas Base Oil Price Report

Price activity shifted to the naphthenic base oils side this week, as San Joaquin Refining announced a price increase fo...


Weekly Americas Base Oil Price Report

The supply and demand balance in the API Group III segment remained extremely tight, while crude oil and feedstock price...


Weekly Americas Base Oil Price Report

With the API Group III base oil segment seeing little relief in terms of supply levels, it was not surprising that yet a...


The Rise and Stumble of Richful

China-based Richful Lube Additive Co. Ltd. was in the midst of a large global expansion. Then the European Union sanctio...


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 EMEA Base Oil Price Report

The past week saw a ramp up of strikes and counterstrikes between the United States and Iran, primarily directed toward ...


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...