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CITGO, ConocoPhillips, Shell and Petro-Canada Announce Finished Lube Price
Increases
CITGO announced last week that it will implement list and customer specific
price increases on all finished lubricants from 12% - 15% effective with
shipments occurring on and after July 1, 2008. This increase will be applicable
to all brands, all classes of trade and package styles including bulk. In
certain instances, increase percentages may fall outside of the general
change.
CITGO stated that base oil, additive, packaging, energy, and transportation
costs have escalated at unprecedented rates and frequencies necessitating price
increases in all of CITGO’s product lines.
A few days prior to CITGO`s announcement, Shell announced that effective
August 5, 2008, it will implement a general price increase on finished
lubricants by up to 15%. The price increase will amount to $0.78/gallon, or
$0.10/lb, on packaged products and $0.68/gallon on bulk products.
ConocoPhillips also announced a price increase for all finished lubricants
by up to 18%, effective Tuesday, July 1, 2008 and Petro-Canada announced that it
will raise lubricant prices by up to 18% for all shipments on or after June 26,
2008 in all package sizes.
Back on March 24, 2008, CITGO announced that it would implement list and
customer specific price increases on all finished lubricants by up to 10%
effective with shipments occurring on and after May 1, 2008. This increase, with
few exceptions, was applicable to all brands, all classes of trade and package
styles including bulk.
And back on March 20, 2008, Shell Lubricants announced that it would
implement a general price increase of up to 10% for most products, effective May
2, 2008. The company stated that in certain instances, specific products may
change in amounts that fall outside of this general increase.
And
ConocoPhillips announced on March 19 that it would raise the prices on all of
its lubricants by 5 to 10%, effective May 1.
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