Our 2009 Guide to Global Base Oil Refining is here, bagged with this issue for all subscribers to Lubes'n'Greases' print edition, and it highlights significant trends in the base oil landscape.rnWe estimate that global base oil capacity has increased 1.4 percent in the past year, to a grand total of more than 962,000 barrels per day. This growth is led by a significant expansion of API Group II and III capacities: Group II capacity increased 12 percent over 2008, while Group III spiked 33 percent, as a number of new refineries came onstream.
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