Base stocks: Market overview, specifications and guidelines

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Base stocks: Market overview, specifications and guidelines

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Aug 25, 2020

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Hydrocarbon Processing’s Editor-in-Chief/Associate Publisher, Lee Nichols, sits down with Rick Dougherty, Chief of Base Stocks and Specialties Technology, ExxonMobil, to discuss the base stocks market, the base stocks interchange, OEM specifications and much more.
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Aug 25, 2020

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