潤滑油基油の近年の需給動向

摘要

Global economic growth, especially in emerging countries and regions, increasing concern to natural resource conservation, and environmental protection lead to a need to high performance lubricants. This article discusses the recent trends of lubricant formulation, which may impact the use of type of lubricant base stocks, for passenger car motor oils, heavy duty motor oils, automatic transmission fluids (ATF), gear oils, tractor hydraulic fluids, general industrial oils, industrial engine oils, process oils, and metalworking fluids (MWF) followed by global supply and demand trend of lubricant base stocks by region and API group in the last 10 years and forecast to 2026.%本章では，乗用車用潤滑油（ガソリンエンジン油)，商用車用潤滑油（ディーゼルエンジン油)，オートマチックトランスミツション油（ATF),ギヤ油，農機·建機用潤滑油，工業用潤滑油のうち，汎用潤滑油，工業用エンジン油，プロセス油,金属加工油について潤滑油プレンディングの最近の動向について紹介する.