Energy/Petroleum Market Research Reports

We focus on petroleum products sold through all channels of distribution, including finished lubricants, lubricant basestocks, fuel and lube additives, waxes, fuels, and related petroleum specialties. Our energy and petroleum market research reports are ideal for manufacturers, marketers, retailers, and suppliers who seek a deeper understanding of their industry, or those who are looking to learn more about nuances, trends, forecasts, intelligent insights, and market data not found anywhere else.
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Finished Lubricants

Bio-Lubricants: Market Analysis and Opportunities

A comprehensive analysis of the global market for bio-lubricants covering products, key end-use applications, regulations, and outlook. The report analyzes the demand drivers and market challenges that face this high value market for lubricants.

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City Cluster Opportunities: New Frontiers for PCMO in Mainland China

A comprehensive analysis examining the rapidly changing passenger car servicing market in China with insights provided at a city level, covering the leading 300+ cities. The study will track franchised workshop channel at the city level, covering vehicle sales and parc evolution, OEM activity, and lubricant consumption and identifying the most attractive city/city clusters.

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Electric Vehicles Fluids: Market Analysis and Opportunities (Consumer Volume)

Performance requirements for the various fluids consumed in electric vehicles (EVs) are significantly different from those used in conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. Besides being different from ICE vehicle fluids, the performance requirements of EV fluids may differ based on the technology used to implement electric drives. Growth of EVs will herald a new lubricants market niche focused on the lubrication needs of EVs.

Food-Grade Lubricants: Analysis of Major Markets

Food-grade lubricants are a special category of oils and greases that are designed for use in the food and beverage processing industries due to their low or non-toxicity. These lubricants are also used in various food processing and peripheral food industries.

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Global Marine Lubricants: Market Analysis and Opportunities

The report is a comprehensive analysis of the global marine lubricants industry in the wake of the introduction of category II cylinder oils, economic and trade disruption due to Russia–Ukraine war, future fuels, and other factors. This report will focus on key trends, developments, changes, challenges, and business opportunities.

Global Synthetic Lubricants: Market Analysis and Opportunities

Global Synthetic Lubricants: Market Analysis and Opportunities provides a comprehensive analysis of trends in synthetic lubricants, along with opportunities, challenges, and trends in select countries and segments. The report provides demand drivers, competitive landscape, and outlook for synthetic and semi-synthetic lubricants by product and country for automotive and industrial lubricants.

Global White Oils: Market Analysis and Opportunities

White oils are highly refined oils made from paraffinic or naphthenic basestocks. They are colorless, odorless mineral or synthetic oils that are used in a variety of applications. The global demand for white oils has been increasing slowly over the past few years.

Immersion Cooling Fluids in Digital Infrastructure Fundamentals of the Growth Segment

Immersion Cooling Fluids in Digital Infrastructure: Fundamentals of the Growth Segment

As society’s data processing needs grow with the rise of the data economy, there is a need for higher-performance, smarter, more energy/cost-efficient, and sustainable data centers. Immersion cooling can help solve these challenges. This report is focused on digital applications. It expands and complements our existing body of work on EV cooling evolution and will be a part of our Emerging Opportunity tracking program.

LubesNet Database

LubesNet helps assess finished lubricants demand at the global, regional, market, market segment, product type, and viscosity grade levels. LubesNet is the definitive source of identifying and quantifying industry trends and opportunities for global, regional, and independent lubricant and additive suppliers.

Lubricants for Wind Turbines

Lubricants for Wind Turbines: Global Market Analysis and Opportunities

The study is a comprehensive analysis examining the market for lubricants used in wind energy generation. The reports will focus on key trends, developments, technology changes, and identifying challenges and opportunities for lubricant marketers. The report will be accompanied by lubricant demand models with a long-term view.

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Opportunities in Lubricants: ASEAN Market Analysis

A comprehensive analysis examining some of the fastest-growing countries in Southeast Asia that together make up for a sizable market for lubricants. This report provides an in-depth analysis of all key market segments in nine countries with a special focus on top market trends, opportunities, and challenges in the region.

Opportunities in Lubricants: China Market Analysis and Opportunities

A comprehensive analysis of the finished lubricants market in China in the post COVID-19 world, this report will provide an in-depth analysis of all key market segments with a special focus on how key market trends, opportunities, and challenges have changed in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, plus government efforts to counter the situation and revitalize the economy.

Opportunities in Lubricants: Indonesia Market Analysis

Opportunities in Lubricants: Indonesia Market Analysis​

A comprehensive analysis of the finished lubricants market in Indonesia in the post-COVID-19 world, this report will provide an in-depth analysis of all key market segments with a special focus on different product categories, channels of distribution, and major suppliers.

Opportunities in Lubricants: Latin America and Caribbean Market Analysis

Opportunities in Lubricants: Latin America and Caribbean Market Analysis provides a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of automotive and industrial finished lubricant products, end-use industries and trade classes, major suppliers, and market trends in the leading country markets in this region.​

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Opportunities in Lubricants: Middle East Market Analysis

The Middle East, particularly the six GCC countries are recovering rapidly from the economic downturn inflected by COVID-19. This growth is primary driven by petroleum sector growth, easing of business and travel restrictions, and an effective vaccination program. The region is also a beneficiary of the changes in the energy sector due to the war in Ukraine. In view of these developments, this report examines the recovery in the lubricants market in the post-COVID-19 world.

Opportunities in Lubricants: North America Market Analysis

In continuous publication since 1984, Opportunities in Lubricants: North America Market Analysis provides a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of automotive and industrial finished lubricant products, end-use industries/trade classes, major suppliers, and market trends in the United States, along with the summary coverage of Canada and Mexico.

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Optimizing PCMO Portfolio in the Rapidly Changing China Market

The study is a comprehensive analysis of how PCMO performance levels and grades will evolve in the future in Mainland China. While the market has been adopting low-viscosity products for some time, tracking their penetration over time is not straightforward.
This analysis uses recommendations from over 150 OEMs across 2,500 models for the past 12 years in China to accurately forecast the performance level and viscosity grade mix of the PCMO market over the next five years.

Rubber Process Oil: Market Analysis and Opportunities

Rubber process oils (RPO) function as internal lubricants, improve the blending of rubber formulations, facilitate the incorporation of fillers and other additives, enhance certain physical characteristics, and function as low-cost extenders.

The Changing Face of Passenger Car Servicing and Emerging PCMO Sales Channels in China

The report is a comprehensive analysis of current and emerging sales channels for passenger car motor oils (PCMOs) in China. The market is witnessing the emergence of alternative channels that will reshape how PCMOs are sold. The report assesses the current state of PCMO sales channels, how they will likely evolve, and what PCMO distribution will look like in the future.

The HDMO Market in 2050: A Long-term Outlook

This report will provide a comprehensive independent
appraisal of the evolving HDMO market facing ambitious decarbonization targets particularly will quantify the detrimental effect of electrification in commercial vehicles and other carbon-neutral alternatives. Various disrupting forces including digitalization are also analyzed.

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The PCMO Market in 2050: A Long-Term Outlook

The transition to electric mobility remained remarkably resilient during the turbulent years of the pandemic. Sustainability concerns and rapid technological advances in the fields of electric powertrain, ride-sharing, and autonomous vehicles are key factors driving the growth of electric vehicles. The advent of electric mobility has the potential to greatly reduce the consumption of passenger car motor oils (PCMO). Emerging driving patterns and alternative car ownership models will further reduce PCMO consumption.

VIDEO PRESENTATION Opportunities in Lubricants: ASEAN Market Analysis

Despite a major setback due to the pandemic, the lubricants market in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region continues to be a dynamic one with strong growth prospects over the forecast period. This video presentation provides an overview of the automotive and industrial finished lubricants market in select ASEAN countries.

Lubricant Basestocks

Global Business Outlook for Brightstocks

The supply of brightstocks continues to dwindle due to Group I plant closures driven by capacity overhang, technical obsolescence, and refiners’ recent pursuit of sustainability goals. Moreover, various substitutes such as Group II brightstocks and PIB are emerging. This report will focus on key trends, developments, challenges, and business opportunities in the global brightstock market.

Global Lubricant Basestocks: Market Analysis and Opportunities

The global basestock market is undergoing various changes in the wake of transition toward sustainability, rapid capacity expansion, declining demand, and swift quality upgrades. This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the market covering current and future supply and demand dynamics, pricing, and manufacturing costs, helping identify opportunities and challenges in the market.

Global Synthetic Lubricant Basestocks 2022 Market Update

A quick snapshot view of the global synthetic basestocks market and demand evolution over the next five years. The transition toward a sustainable future entails a swifter move toward the use of synthetic lubricants, which creates a faster demand for synthetic basestocks. Moreover, growing demand in terms of performance requirements favors the use of synthetic basestocks.

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Global Synthetic Lubricant Basestocks: Market Analysis and Opportunities

A comprehensive analysis of the fast-growing synthetic basestocks market, the report highlights growth opportunities for basestock marketers in a flat-to-declining market for finished lubricants and growing focus on sustainability. As demand for synthetic lubricants grows, new opportunities arise for synthetic basestock marketers.

Petroleum Specialties

Global Fuel Additives: Market Analysis and Opportunities

This report is a comprehensive analysis of the global market for fuel additives, covering the impact of COVID-19, de-carbonization strategies, emerging fuels, new regulations, and changing customer behavior on the fuel market.

Global Lubricant Additives: Market Analysis and Opportunities

This report is a comprehensive analysis examining the global lubricant additives market. The lubricant additives industry has been challenged by supply chain issues, rising costs, and developing the next generation of EV lubricants. The study will look at the key trends, developments, changes, challenges, and business opportunities in the lubricant additives market.

wax industry

Global Wax Industry: Market Analysis and Opportunities

The global supply of petroleum wax, which is derived from Group I basestock production, is declining. This is creating a vacuum in the wax market, which is increasingly being filled by synthetic and vegetable waxes. Wax demand in fast-growing markets such as PVC, paints, coatings, and adhesives is increasing, while the demand is slowing down in traditional wax applications such as candles and board sizing.
Wax end users are increasingly looking to include sustainable waxes in their production line to reduce their carbon footprints. This is expected to strengthen the transition in the wax industry toward low-carbon-intensive waxes.

PAO Market Outlook in the Age of Electrification

The supply of brightstocks continues to dwindle due to Group I plant closures, and the trend is accelerating in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. This report, a comprehensive analysis, will focus on key trends, developments, challenges, and business opportunities in the global brightstock market.

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