API Base Oil Definitions The American Petroleum Institute (API) classifies base oils into five groups under API 1509, ba...

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Since the easing of pressure exerted across the global economy by the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for lubricant additives ...

Having been through a week where crude and product prices escalated to new recent highs, the base oil scene in Europe, t...

Algeria’s state-owned energy company Sonatrach has advanced plans for a base oil unit producing API Group II and III b...

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Base oil prices across Europe, the Middle East and Africa remain buoyed by crude and feedstock prices that are still hig...