Who Makes Base Oils?
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XOM makes a lot of the base oils for most of those companys.
Kendall/76/Trop Artic/motorcraft are made from CP who uses SK from Korea for synthetic base stocks, I was told they make their own conventional bases. BP/Royal Dutch Shell(SOPUS) also makes some of their own basestocks. Shell- GTL for example.
Ashland who makes Valvoline also uses XOM base oils.
Kendall/76/Trop Artic/motorcraft are made from CP who uses SK from Korea for synthetic base stocks, I was told they make their own conventional bases. BP/Royal Dutch Shell(SOPUS) also makes some of their own basestocks. Shell- GTL for example.
Ashland who makes Valvoline also uses XOM base oils.
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Who is "SK"?
Originally Posted By: volk06
XOM makes a lot of the base oils for most of those companys.
Kendall/76/Trop Artic/motorcraft are made from CP who uses SK from Korea for synthetic base stocks, I was told they make their own conventional bases. BP/Royal Dutch Shell(SOPUS) also makes some of their own basestocks. Shell- GTL for example.
Ashland who makes Valvoline also uses XOM base oils.
Originally Posted By: volk06
XOM makes a lot of the base oils for most of those companys.
Kendall/76/Trop Artic/motorcraft are made from CP who uses SK from Korea for synthetic base stocks, I was told they make their own conventional bases. BP/Royal Dutch Shell(SOPUS) also makes some of their own basestocks. Shell- GTL for example.
Ashland who makes Valvoline also uses XOM base oils.
Originally Posted By: dparm
http://eng.skenergy.com/
Here is the correct site.
http://sklubricants.com/eng/main/main.html
Here is the site for their base oil.
http://www.yubase.com/
http://eng.skenergy.com/
Here is the correct site.
http://sklubricants.com/eng/main/main.html
Here is the site for their base oil.
http://www.yubase.com/
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Petro-Canada is also a major base oil maker including high VI low PP GP III oils.
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IIRC chevron makes their own and built a new plant down on the gulf coast a few years ago.
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Exxon-Mobil is the largest in the world for both base stocks and petro-chemicals (XOM Chemical).
They also co-own Infineon with SOPUS, which makes the additives/add packs.
They also co-own Infineon with SOPUS, which makes the additives/add packs.
Originally Posted By: OVERK1LL
Exxon-Mobil is the largest in the world for both base stocks and petro-chemicals (XOM Chemical).
They also co-own Infineon with SOPUS, which makes the additives/add packs.
Infineum.
Makes you wonder if both companies, XOM & SOPUS are using tri-nuclear moly in their new full syn, ie PP, PU, Mobil 1, Mobil 1 Extended Performance, Mobil 1 Advanced Fuel Economy. They said trinuclear is how many times more effective than regular moly. (50-100x better antiwear than regular moly? not sure what the exact number was now.
Maybe this is why Pennzoil conventional has such a high moly content, it could be cheaper non-trinuclear moly which is less effective and it needs that much.
Exxon-Mobil is the largest in the world for both base stocks and petro-chemicals (XOM Chemical).
They also co-own Infineon with SOPUS, which makes the additives/add packs.
Infineum.
Makes you wonder if both companies, XOM & SOPUS are using tri-nuclear moly in their new full syn, ie PP, PU, Mobil 1, Mobil 1 Extended Performance, Mobil 1 Advanced Fuel Economy. They said trinuclear is how many times more effective than regular moly. (50-100x better antiwear than regular moly? not sure what the exact number was now.
Maybe this is why Pennzoil conventional has such a high moly content, it could be cheaper non-trinuclear moly which is less effective and it needs that much.
Originally Posted By: CATERHAM
Petro-Canada is also a major base oil maker including high VI low PP GP III oils.
Correct. They also make great products. The unfortunate thing is that a lot of companies make "average" products but have great marketing...Petro Canada makes great products but their marketing is non-existent.
Petro-Canada is also a major base oil maker including high VI low PP GP III oils.
Correct. They also make great products. The unfortunate thing is that a lot of companies make "average" products but have great marketing...Petro Canada makes great products but their marketing is non-existent.
Didn't chevron invent hydrocracking?
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Originally Posted By: volk06
Originally Posted By: OVERK1LL
Exxon-Mobil is the largest in the world for both base stocks and petro-chemicals (XOM Chemical).
They also co-own Infineon with SOPUS, which makes the additives/add packs.
Infineum.
Makes you wonder if both companies, XOM & SOPUS are using tri-nuclear moly in their new full syn, ie PP, PU, Mobil 1, Mobil 1 Extended Performance, Mobil 1 Advanced Fuel Economy. They said trinuclear is how many times more effective than regular moly. (50-100x better antiwear than regular moly? not sure what the exact number was now.
Maybe this is why Pennzoil conventional has such a high moly content, it could be cheaper non-trinuclear moly which is less effective and it needs that much.
Sorry, I had a computer moment, Infineon is a memory chip manufacturer, LMAO!!!
Originally Posted By: OVERK1LL
Exxon-Mobil is the largest in the world for both base stocks and petro-chemicals (XOM Chemical).
They also co-own Infineon with SOPUS, which makes the additives/add packs.
Infineum.
Makes you wonder if both companies, XOM & SOPUS are using tri-nuclear moly in their new full syn, ie PP, PU, Mobil 1, Mobil 1 Extended Performance, Mobil 1 Advanced Fuel Economy. They said trinuclear is how many times more effective than regular moly. (50-100x better antiwear than regular moly? not sure what the exact number was now.
Maybe this is why Pennzoil conventional has such a high moly content, it could be cheaper non-trinuclear moly which is less effective and it needs that much.
Sorry, I had a computer moment, Infineon is a memory chip manufacturer, LMAO!!!
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Tri-Nuclear Moly? Really?
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