By Nancy DeMarco
 
Now it’s easier to track base oil prices to meet your own needs. Lube Report’s weekly U.S. posted prices, from January 2004 to the present, are available in Excel file format at www.BaseOilPrices.com.
 
If you need to track and analyze the U.S. base oil market, this is the time-saving tool you’ve been seeking.
 
Every Wednesday, Lube Report publishes current posted prices in the U.S. Base Oil Price Report by senior editor Carolyn Green, in U.S. dollars per gallon and in U.S. dollars per metric ton. Up to six years of this weekly pricing data is now available in Excel and other formats.
 
These weekly postings, currently from nine paraffinic base oil producers, include API Group I, II, II+, III and III+ types, in U.S. Gulf Coast, East Coast, Midwest and West Coast markets. In all, we report postings for some two dozen viscosity grades, including bright stock.
 
LNG Publishing Co. is pleased to make this data available to the industry. Weekly pricing data can be purchased by product, by company and/or by period of time. Each individual posting is one product. For example, ExxonMobil’s Group I SN 100 is one product; Motiva’s Group II 105 vis is one product; etc.
 
Data for prior years includes prices posted by predecessor companies (for example, Sunoco, whose base oil refinery was acquired by Holly Refining), and companies that no longer supply base oils (for example, Citgo).
 
To learn more, or to purchase pricing data, visit www.BaseOilPrices.com.