Energy
Our Expertise
Assisting our lubricants clients in the transformation of the energy industry is at the heart of what we do. From tracking supply and demand across specific industry sectors to forecasting the supply chain outlook for biolubes and lubricants for wind turbines, Kline’s expertise across the lubricants value chain is unparalleled. Categories include:- Finished lubricants
- Lubricant basestocks
- Specialty products
Advisory Experience
Examples of our advisory experience are provided below. Please contact us to learn more about our project work and capabilities.Finished Lubricants
- Strategy support: identification of premium “Value Pools” within industrial sectors (e.g., mining, power, etc.) at the intersection of product and application
- Market intelligence: deep dive into opportunities in greases by market, sector, and product type
- Market intelligence: identification, profiling, and screening of distributors
- Strategy support: e-commerce opportunities for consumer lubricants in China
- Forecasting/ predictive analytics: industry sector specific Futurecasting, with impact on lubricants, to understand shift from product to service and emergence of the solution-based model
- Strategy support: strategy review for European-based global lubricants player
- Technology & innovation: R&D strategy and roadmap review for Asian lubricant company in light of long-term market trends
- Strategy support: finding profitability improvement levers for global major’s industrial lubricants business
- Strategy development: growth strategy development for large regional lubricant blender (Middle East) outside of their home market
- M&A advisory: M&A opportunities Chinese metalworking fluids market
Lubricant Basestocks
- M&A due diligence: detailed market analysis of re-refining operation and determining market potential for basestock re-refinery
- Forecasting/ predictive analytics: evaluating baseoil market outlook and creating a customized price forecasting model for a large European baseoil producer
- Strategy support: lube block profitability analysis and operations optimization strategy for a European GI refinery
- Market intelligence: market analysis high viscosity base oil Group II
- Forecasting/ predictive analytics: 15 year finished lubricant and base oil forecast
- Market intelligence: Egypt base oil market study
- Market intelligence: Group III base oils market assessment
- Strategy support: Base oil supply strategy
- Strategy support: Group III base oils marketing assessment
Specialty Products
- Strategy support: opportunity identification in PE waxes, including evaluation of market potential and entry requirements
- Technology & innovation: market potential and penetration curve modeling for novel bio-based molecule
- Market intelligence: MC wax pricing analysis (SO1650)
- Market intelligence: Analysis PAO business strategy for selected competitors
- Market intelligence: wax pricing (China market analysis)
- Strategy support: PAO outlook to 2050
- Strategy support: FT was pricing model (base model and updates)
- Market intelligence: wax emulsion market study
- Market intelligence: profiles of major lubricant additive distributors in S. Korea
- Market intelligence: market assessment of performance additive ins metalworking fluids
- Market intelligence: global market and outlook for base oils and waxes
Explore Our Energy Products and Solutions
Kline’s energy portfolio spans the entire lubricant value chain and its adjacencies.
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