The American Petroleum Institute's new diesel engine oil-service categories, API CK-4 and FA-4, will begin appearing in the marketplace on December 1. New API Donuts denoting the categories will ...

Three years from now, you'll see a new API diesel engine oil-service category, designed to help meet federal greenhouse gas/fuel economy standards, which have a final phase-in date set for model year ...

The Engine Manufacturers Association (EMA) made a request earlier this year to the Diesel Engine Oil Advisory Panel (DEOAP) of the American Petroleum Institute (API) to initiate development of a new ...

The American Petroleum Institute’s (API) new diesel engine oil standards – API CK-4 and FA-4 – will hit store shelves and bulk tanks nationwide Thursday. Earlier this year, API’s Lubricants Group ...

The API CJ-4 oil category includes 9 fired engine tests and 6 bench tests. The new multi-cylinder tests in the category include Caterpillar C13, Cummins ISB, Cummins ISM, Mack T-12, and Mack T-11, ...

With the American Petroleum Institute's Lubricants Group approving the transition into the development phase of Proposed Category-12 (PC-12), the replacement process for engine oil categories CK-4 and ...

Since March 2021, the process of developing the heavy-duty engine oil category known as Proposed Category-12 (or PC-12) has been slow and steady, as it was advertised. From the initial suggestion of ...

This oil category was driven by two new cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) engine tests operating with 15% EGR, with used oil soot levels at the end of the test ranging from 6 to 9%. These tests ...

Modern engine design and the need to reduce CO 2 emissions have led to the development of additional engine oil categories and a growing number of engine oil viscosity grades for diesel engines. In ...

Work on creating the next heavy-duty diesel engine oil standard-- known in its current, embryonic form as Proposed Category 11-- is running on schedule to meet the planned “delivery” of new lubricants ...

The American Petroleum Institute (API) reported a healthy draw of 4.2 million barrels in United States crude oil inventories, compared to analyst expectations that markets would see a bit of relief ...

Both API and EIA reports can influence crude oil prices, though the API is often used as a preliminary indicator. The API report is based on voluntary survey responses from its members, which include ...