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Global Base Oils and Lubricants Markets

Global Editor, Base Oil News

Iain Pocock

Global Editor

Commodities

<ul><li>Global base oils prices edge lower vs feedstock/competing fuel prices, stay well below recent highs in Q2 2025.</li><li>Lower base oils margins coincide with time of year when supply-demand fundamentals typically weaken.</li><li>Even at lower levels, base oils margins hold at levels that curb incentive for refiners to adjust output.</li></ul>

Global base oils prices edge lower vs feedstock/competing fuel prices, stay well below recent highs in Q2 2025.Lower base oils margins coincide with time of year when supply-demand fundamentals typically weaken.Even at lower levels, base oils margins hold at levels that curb incentive for refiners to adjust output.

Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL IN)

Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited

TotalEnergies Marketing Nigeria (TOTAL NL)

Global base oils margins outlook: Week of 14 July