润滑油工业的现状和展望

Current Status & Prospect Of Lube Oil Industry

近年来,亚洲润滑油生产能力增长迅速,世界润滑油市场供大于求。虽然如此,润滑油技术进步的步伐并未减慢,因为推动润滑油技术进步的动力依然存在。从2000年开始,非常规基础油的需求开始大于生产能力。尽管API Ⅲ类基础油有优异的使用性能,但是在2010年以前其市场份额仍然不大。目前,20％国内润滑油市场被外国公司占有,80％中/高档内燃机油是外国品牌油或是用进口复合剂调制的油品。某些添加剂供应商在国内市场推销“推论”复合剂,这是一种独特的现象,值得注意。不管世界润滑油市场如何变化,民族润滑油工业必须继续发展,自主开发能力必须加强。

In recent years, the capacity of the Asian base oil production increased dramatically. The supply of thelubricants is surplus worldwide. The forces to drive the progress of lubricant technology is still existing, consequently,the pace of the lubricant improvement did not retard. The demand started to be over the supply for unconventional baseoils since 2000. However, the market share of API Group Ⅲ base oil is small until 2010, particularly in the domesticmarket, although it has perfect performances compared with conventional base oil. Foreign oil companies have occu-pied 20 percent of the domestic lubricant market. Meanwhile, 80 percent of the middle/high grade engine oils are for-eign brand oils or products blended with imported additive packages. Some additive suppliers have marketed 'deducedadditive packages' for enhancing competitive power. It is a unique phenomenon in the lubricant market, and should benoticed closely. No matter how the world's lubricant market changes, the national lubricant industry must be deve-loped continuously. And it is no doubt that the ability of the domestic R & D for lubricants should be enhanced.