Global Editor, Base Oil News

Iain Pocock

Global Editor

Global Base Oils and Lubricants Markets

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Base Oil News focuses on the interplay between fundamentals and prices in the global base oils and lubricants markets.

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The data and analysis provide key tools to understand current market developments and opportunities and to anticipate how the market is likely to behave in the coming months.

Base oils producers, lube blenders and consumers can then better plan accordingly.

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Commodities

<ul><li>Asia’s Group I/II base oils price premium to feedstock/gasoil prices stays unusually high.</li><li>High premium points to tight supply-demand fundamentals.</li><li>Prospect of slowing demand could cushion impact of tight Group I base oils supply in Q2 2025.</li></ul>

Asia’s Group I/II base oils price premium to feedstock/gasoil prices stays unusually high.High premium points to tight supply-demand fundamentals.Prospect of slowing demand could cushion impact of tight Group I base oils supply in Q2 2025.

Asia base oils supply outlook: Week of 28 April

<ul><li>Asia’s base oils demand could wane as expectations of improving supply and more muted end-user consumption incentivize blenders to keep low stocks.</li><li>High base oils margins could add to buyers’ preference to hold back amid concern about disconnect between high margins and prospect of weaker supply-demand fundamentals.</li><li>More muted regional demand would speed up recovery in supply as more plant maintenance draws to a close in coming weeks.</li></ul>

Asia’s base oils demand could wane as expectations of improving supply and more muted end-user consumption incentivize blenders to keep low stocks.High base oils margins could add to buyers’ preference to hold back amid concern about disconnect between high margins and prospect of weaker supply-demand fundamentals.More muted regional demand would speed up recovery in supply as more plant maintenance draws to a close in coming weeks.

Asia base oils demand outlook: Week of 28 April

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech, Aequitas Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>We analyse the changes of A-H premium on 149 stocks over the last week. The average A-H premium was 87.8% as of Apr 25th.</li>
<li>The average A-H premium changed by -2.7ppt week-on-week, led by health care, financials, energy and offset by communication services.</li>
<li>We highlight weekly changes in A-H premium for Shanghai Petrochemical, Datang Intl Power Gen, Beigene, Maanshan Iron &amp; Steel.</li>
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We analyse the changes of A-H premium on 149 stocks over the last week. The average A-H premium was 87.8% as of Apr 25th.
The average A-H premium changed by -2.7ppt week-on-week, led by health care, financials, energy and offset by communication services.
We highlight weekly changes in A-H premium for Shanghai Petrochemical, Datang Intl Power Gen, Beigene, Maanshan Iron &amp; Steel.


A-H Premium Weekly (Apr 25th): Shanghai Petrochemical, Datang Intl Power Gen, Beigene

<ul><li>Global base oils prices stay firm vs feedstock/competing fuel prices.</li><li>Firm base oils margins point to tight supply and strong demand.</li><li>Firm base oils margins incentivize refiners to raise base oils output.</li></ul>

Global base oils prices stay firm vs feedstock/competing fuel prices.Firm base oils margins point to tight supply and strong demand.Firm base oils margins incentivize refiners to raise base oils output.

Global base oils margins outlook: Week of 21 April

<ul><li>Asia’s Group II base oils prices hold firm relative to prices in regional markets like northeast Asia so far this year.</li><li>Asia’s Group II base oils prices hold firm relative to prices in more distant markets like Americas so far this year.</li><li>Asia’s firm prices complicate arbitrage, reflecting tighter-than-usual regional supply late last year and in early-2025.</li></ul>

Asia’s Group II base oils prices hold firm relative to prices in regional markets like northeast Asia so far this year.Asia’s Group II base oils prices hold firm relative to prices in more distant markets like Americas so far this year.Asia’s firm prices complicate arbitrage, reflecting tighter-than-usual regional supply late last year and in early-2025.

Global base oils arb outlook: Week of 21 April

China

Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Company Limited processes crude oil into a broad range of synthetic fibers, resins and plastics, intermediate petrochemical products and petroleum products.

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Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical (338 HK)

Asia base oils supply outlook: Week of 28 April

Asia’s Group I/II base oils price premium to feedstock/gasoil prices stays unusually high. High premium points to tight supply-demand...

Base Oil News

Asia base oils demand outlook: Week of 28 April

Asia’s base oils demand could wane as expectations of improving supply and more muted end-user consumption incentivize blenders to keep low...

Base Oil News

A-H Premium Weekly (Apr 25th): Shanghai Petrochemical, Datang Intl Power Gen, Beigene

We analyzed A-H premium changes in the past week and highlight A-H premium changes for Shanghai Petrochemical, Datang Intl Power Gen, Beigene,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Global base oils margins outlook: Week of 21 April

Global base oils prices stay firm vs feedstock/competing fuel prices. Firm base oils margins point to tight supply and strong demand. Firm base...

Base Oil News

Global base oils arb outlook: Week of 21 April

Asia’s Group II base oils prices hold firm relative to prices in regional markets like northeast Asia so far this year. Asia’s Group II base oils...

Base Oil News

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