India Police Arrest Four in Counterfeit Lube Sting

Police in India’s Odisha state have arrested four people in connection with an alleged operation manufacturing and sup...


Why Routes to Market Matter

Strategic decisions about how and where to supply finished products can greatly affect a company’s success.


Vietnam’s Market Trends Rapidly Developing

Vietnam’s lubricants market is being reshaped by rapid growth in passenger vehicles, electric vehicles and industrial ...


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...


Japan Limits Lube Supply, Develops Synthetics

Japanese lubricant manufacturers continue to limit supply while the country develops alternatives to crude oil stranded ...


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...


Weekly Americas Base Oil Price Report

While the number of vessels allowed to transit the Strait of Hormuz has increased, a recent artillery strike by Iran on ...