Ah, this may be even worse than I thought...
I sort of made the assumption that LSPI would just be a PCMO thing and HDDOs would continue to act as a vast sink for Ca detergents. But of course, if the oil companies want to tag on the latest PCMO luggage label (which they usually do), then you open the door wide to yet more Mg demand.
And because Euro PCMOs all still tag on API specs as well as ACEA & OEM claims, there's another huge slug of potential Mg demand to meet. If this happens, there's going to be an awful lot of top tier/OEM FF oils that have been progressively developed over many years which are going to have to be reformulated overnight at vast expense!
The biggest irony of all is that there's probably going to be a mass migration of Mg from the grubbier end of the oil market (the Middle-East & Africa) to the top tier. Proof if any were needed that God likes a bloody good joke!
I sort of made the assumption that LSPI would just be a PCMO thing and HDDOs would continue to act as a vast sink for Ca detergents. But of course, if the oil companies want to tag on the latest PCMO luggage label (which they usually do), then you open the door wide to yet more Mg demand.
And because Euro PCMOs all still tag on API specs as well as ACEA & OEM claims, there's another huge slug of potential Mg demand to meet. If this happens, there's going to be an awful lot of top tier/OEM FF oils that have been progressively developed over many years which are going to have to be reformulated overnight at vast expense!
The biggest irony of all is that there's probably going to be a mass migration of Mg from the grubbier end of the oil market (the Middle-East & Africa) to the top tier. Proof if any were needed that God likes a bloody good joke!
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