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Iain Pocock

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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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<li>Global base oils margins rise in response to increasingly lower crude oil prices.</li>
<li>Mostly-steady outright prices magnify impact of lower crude oil prices.</li>
<li>Firmer margins and steady outright prices point to stronger-than-usual fundamentals for the time of year.</li>
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Global base oils margins rise in response to increasingly lower crude oil prices.
Mostly-steady outright prices magnify impact of lower crude oil prices.
Firmer margins and steady outright prices point to stronger-than-usual fundamentals for the time of year.


Global base oils margins outlook: Week of 20 October

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Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>In this edition: • ASML Holding | reiterates FY25 outlook – expects revenue growth in 2026 • Heineken | to transform its Amsterdam headquarters; additional reduction 400 jobs • InPost | Royal Mail plans to double its UK parcel points by 2030 • Shell | FID on Nigerian offshore gas project • bpostgroup | launches a new B2B proposition: Night Delivery • Nexperia | more information on what led to this week’s events</li></ul>

In this edition: • ASML Holding | reiterates FY25 outlook – expects revenue growth in 2026 • Heineken | to transform its Amsterdam headquarters; additional reduction 400 jobs • InPost | Royal Mail plans to double its UK parcel points by 2030 • Shell | FID on Nigerian offshore gas project • bpostgroup | launches a new B2B proposition: Night Delivery • Nexperia | more information on what led to this week’s events

NXP Semiconductors NV - What's News in Amsterdam

<ul><li>US base oils demand could be steadier amid rangebound prices and signs of more muted pressure from any surplus supply.</li><li>US base oils demand typically rises in month of October from September, before falling in month of November.</li><li>Demand could be lower than usual as buyers and distributors work down stocks built up as buffer against weather-related supply disruptions during Atlantic hurricane season.</li></ul>

US base oils demand could be steadier amid rangebound prices and signs of more muted pressure from any surplus supply.US base oils demand typically rises in month of October from September, before falling in month of November.Demand could be lower than usual as buyers and distributors work down stocks built up as buffer against weather-related supply disruptions during Atlantic hurricane season.

Americas/EMEA base oils demand outlook: Week of 13 October

<ul><li>Asia’s base oils demand could stay more cautious as signs of healthy stocks and rising supplies curb urgency to buy.</li><li>Any need to move surplus supplies to markets beyond Asia could put pressure on adjustment in prices to make those shipments more feasible.</li><li>Any such moves, and the subsequent prospect of additional price-pressure, could add to attraction of procuring smaller volumes more frequently.</li></ul>

Asia’s base oils demand could stay more cautious as signs of healthy stocks and rising supplies curb urgency to buy.Any need to move surplus supplies to markets beyond Asia could put pressure on adjustment in prices to make those shipments more feasible.Any such moves, and the subsequent prospect of additional price-pressure, could add to attraction of procuring smaller volumes more frequently.

Asia base oils demand outlook: Week of 13 October

<ul><li>US base oils prices remain in narrow range vs feedstock prices.</li><li>Steady margins sustain incentive for refiners to maintain or raise output at time of year when demand typically starts to slow.</li><li>Persistently-steady margins and increasingly squeezed stocks in first seven months of 2025 suggest fundamentals remain balanced even with incentive to maintain higher output.</li></ul>

US base oils prices remain in narrow range vs feedstock prices.Steady margins sustain incentive for refiners to maintain or raise output at time of year when demand typically starts to slow.Persistently-steady margins and increasingly squeezed stocks in first seven months of 2025 suggest fundamentals remain balanced even with incentive to maintain higher output.

Americas/EMEA base oils supply outlook: Week of 13 October

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Global base oils margins outlook: Week of 20 October

Global base oils margins rise in response to increasingly lower crude oil prices. Mostly-steady outright prices magnify impact of lower crude oil...

Base Oil News

NXP Semiconductors NV - What's News in Amsterdam

In this edition: • ASML Holding | reiterates FY25 outlook – expects revenue growth in 2026 • Heineken | to transform its Amsterdam headquarters;...

The IDEA!

Americas/EMEA base oils demand outlook: Week of 13 October

US base oils demand could be steadier amid rangebound prices and signs of more muted pressure from any surplus supply. US base oils demand...

Base Oil News

Asia base oils demand outlook: Week of 13 October

Asia’s base oils demand could stay more cautious as signs of healthy stocks and rising supplies curb urgency to buy. Any need to move surplus...

Base Oil News

Americas/EMEA base oils supply outlook: Week of 13 October

US base oils prices remain in narrow range vs feedstock prices. Steady margins sustain incentive for refiners to maintain or raise output at time...

Base Oil News

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