Report Summary

As an important component of petroleum and chemical industry, oil industry is the pillar industry in our country and is closely connected with the national macro economic situation and the development of relevant industries, such as automobile, machine and transportation.  Driven by relative industries, the lubricating oil industry becomes one of top four products in petroleum and chemical industry in China, and is faced with unprecedented challenge and opportunity.

This report is composed based on data sourced from National Bureau of Statistics of China, China Customs, National Economic & Trade Committee, Development Research Center of the State Council, Sinolub, relevant lubricating oil associations, and from huge amount of information published by professional magazines, periodicals, websites and research institutes.  The report analyses the supply & demand, development situation of relevant industries, import & export, consumption & market, competition & opportunities, industry conformity, leading enterprises, marketing, development trend of lubricating oil by using Macroeconomic, Microeconomic, and Industrial Economics theory with in-depth and original view and analysis.  It is a good reference for enterprises in lubricant oil business to learn the market situation and make right decision for their development strategy.

Report Outline

Section 1    A Survey on Lubricating Oil Product

1.1      The Definition and Classification of Lubricating Oil
1.1.1   Definition of Lubricating Oil
1.1.2   Basic Classification
1.1.3   Classification of Lubricating Base Oil
1.1.4   Lubricating Oil Additives
1.2      Introduction of Mainly Used Lubricating Oil
1.2.1   Internal Combustion Engine Oil
1.2.2   Gear Oil
1.2.3   Hydraulic Oil
1.2.4   Full Consumption System Oil
1.2.5   Lubricating Grease

Section 2    Development of International Lubricating Oil Market

2.1      Industrial Situation of International Lubricating Oil
2.1.1   America Lubricating Oil Industrial Situation
2.1.2   European Lubricating Oil Industrial Situation
2.1.3   Japanese Lubricating Oil Industrial Situation
2.1.4   Lubricating Oil Industrial Situation of Other Countries in Asia-Pacific Region
2.2      World Lubricating Base Oil Development
2.2.1   Overview of International Base Oil Market, 2005
2.2.2   Base Oil Orientation of World Oil Giants
2.3      General Situation of International Internal Combustion Engine Oil Market
2.3.1   American Internal Combustion Engine Oil Market
2.3.2   European Internal Combustion Engine Oil Market
2.3.3   Asia Internal Combustion Engine Oil Market
2.4      International Engine Oil Market
2.4.1   American Engine Oil Market
2.4.2   European Engine Oil Market
2.4.3   Japanese Engine Oil Market
2.5      Future Development of World Vehicle Lubricating Oil

Section 3    Market Development Environment for Chinese Lube

3.1      Development condition of Chinese automobile industry
3.1.1   Analysis of the production & sales of different types of Chinese automobiles, 2004-2006
3.1.2   Analysis on the Chinese automobile market, Jan-June 2006
3.2      Development Condition of Chinese Mechanical Industry
3.2.1   Analysis of the output production & sales condition of Chinese mechanical industry, 2004-2005
3.2.2   Analysis on the running condition of Chinese mechanical industry, Jan-June 2006
3.3      Policy Standard of Lube in China
3.3.1   China in need of its own lube industry standard
3.3.2   The debut of a new lube policy concerning middle-scale & heavy automobile
3.3.3   Association in the lube industry
3.3.4   Environmental protection policy of the company

Section 4    Current Situation of China Lubricants Market

4.1      Summary of China Lubricants Market Development-China Lubricants Market Grows to Maturity
4.1.1   From the ¡°Mixed-up" to the Tripartite Confrontation
4.1.2   Market Features
4.2      Analysis of Balance between Supply & Demand of China Lubricant, 2003-2006
4.2.1   Analysis of Balance of Total Output & Sales China Lubricant Products, 2004-2006
4.2.2   The China Lubricant Output, 2002-2006
4.2.3   The Output Alternation of the Top 30 Lubricant Companies, 2004-2006
4.2.4   The Lubricant Output around the Country (by provinces & cities), 2004-2006
4.3      Analysis of the Import & Export of China Lubricant, 2003-2006
4.3.1   Analysis of the Total Import & Export, 2002-2006
4.3.2   Analysis of the Import, 2003-2006
4.3.3   Analysis of the Export, 2003-2006

Section 5    Analysis of the Main Lubricant Products

5.1      Internal Combustion Engine Oil Market
5.1.1   Current Situation of the China Internal Combustion Engine Oil
5.1.2   Demand structure and expectation of the China Internal Combustion Engine Oil Market
5.1.3   Competition Situation of China Internal Combustion Engine Oil Market
5.1.4   Development Tendency of China Auto Engine Lubricant
5.2      Gear Oil Market
5.2.1   Development Status of the Gear Oil Market
5.2.2   Demand structure & expectation of Gear Oil
5.2.3   Achievement & Direction of the Gear Oil Reach
5.3       Hydraulic Fluid Market
5.3.1   Development Status of the Hydraulic Fluid Market
5.3.2   Status & Development Tendency of the Hydraulic Fluid Reach
5.4      Automatic Transmission Fluid (ATF) Market
5.4.1   Development Status of the China ATF Market
5.4.2   Status & Development Tendency of the ATF Reach

5.5       Grease Lubricant Market

Section 6    China Auto Lubricant Market

6.1      Auto Lubricant leads the China Lubricant Market
6.2      Demand expectation of Civilian Vehicle Lubricant
6.3      Output of Various vehicles in China, 2004-2005
6.4      Development of the Auto Lubricant in the World

Section 7    Analysis on Chinese Lubricating Oil Upper Reaches Product

Market¡ª Lubricating Base Oil Market

7.1      Production Situation of Chinese Lubricating Base Oil, 2002-2006
7.1.1   Supply Situation of Chinese Lubricating Base Oil
7.1.2   General Situation of Chinese Lubricating Base Oil Major Supplier Production Capacity, 2002-2006
7.1.3   General Situation of Chinese Lubricating Base Oil Production Growth, 2002-2006
7.1.4   Analysis on Market Demands of Chinese Lube Base Oil, 2003-2006
7.2      General Situation of Chinese Lube Base Oil Import & Export, 2002-2006
7.2.1   Chinese Lube Base Oil Import Amount & Money, 2000-2006
7.2.2   Chinese Lube Base Oil Export Amount & Money, 2003-2006
7.2.3   Market Analysis Comment on Chinese Lube Base Oil Import for the First Half Year of 2006
7.2.4   Main Source Countries & Companies of Chinese Lube Base Oil Import

Section 8    Lubricant Market Competition

8.1     Situation of China Lubricant Market Competition, the Positions of Strategical Group & their Market Shares
8.2     The Tripartition Structure is changed because of Monarch's Being Merged by Shell
8.3     An Analysis of the Situation and Trend of China's High-end Lubricant Market Competition, 2003-2006
8.4     Major Competing Brands and Their Market Shares

Section 9    Analysis of Business Strategies of Famous Chinese Enterprises

9.1      Lubricant Company, Sinopec Corp.
9.1.1   General information of the corporation
9.1.2   Company Operation & Yield information, 2003-2006
9.1.3   Great wall Lube Key to Success
9.1.4   An Analysis of the Competitive Strategies of the Great Wall Company
9.1.5   Great Wall Company Market Competition Strategies
9.2      Kunlun Lubricant
9.2.1   General Information
9.2.2   China Petroleum Lubricant Company sales & output, 2003-2005
9.2.3   Advertisement Strategies
9.3      Beijing Tongyi Petrochemistry Company Ltd.
9.3.1   Overall Development of the Enterprise
9.3.2   Company Management & Output Situation, 2002-2006
9.3.3   An Analysis of Tongyi Lubricant Product Strategies

Section 10    Analysis of World Famous Enterprises Chinese Marketing Strategies

10.1      Shell lubricant
10.1.1   The development situation of shell in China
10.1.2   The output & operation situation, 2000-2006
10.1.3   International operation & quality sense
10.1.4   Shell competition strategy in China

10.2      BP lubricant
10.2.1   The development situation of BP in China
10.2.2   The operation situation of BP Lubricant China, 2005-2006
10.2.3   The development strategy of BP China
10.2.4   Dongfeng and BP to develop the lubricant market
10.2.5   The Cooperation of Xinjiang Post and BP lubricant company

10.3      Mobil lubricant
10.3.1   The development situation of Mobil in China
10.3.2   The output and operation situation, 2003-2006
10.3.3   The strategy layout of Mobil Lubricant in China
10.4      The market strategy of Mobil lubricant

10.5      Caltex Lubricant
10.5.1   Company profiles
10.5.2   The output & operation situation, 2003-2006

Tables

Table    Classification and Standard of Chinese Lubricating Oil
Table    API Base Oil Classification
Table    Some Representative Additives
Table    World Lubricating Oil Consumption structure
Table    Japanese Lubricating Oil Requirements Situation in Recent Years
Table    Analysis on Japanese Lubricating Oil Real Sales Situation, 1999-2000 Unit: 103kL
Table    Japan Lubricating Oil Consumption Structure
Table    Japanese Enterprises Lubricating Oil Sales Situation, 2000
Table    Asia-Pacific Region Lubricating Oil Demand in Recent Years
Table    Emission Regulation and Limit of Global Heavy-Duty Engine Oil
Table    World Major Lubricating Oil Companies
Table    Classification of Companies like Shell toward Lubricating Base Oil
Table    Quality & Market Share of Gasoline Engine Oil in Asia-Pacific Region
Table    Quality & Market Share of Diesel Engine Oil in Asia-Pacific Region
Table    Output condition of automobiles, 2003-2005
Table    Sales structure of two types of automobiles, 1999-2006 (passenger vehicle vs. commercial vehicle)
Table    Output condition of truck, 2003-2005
Table    Output condition of motor bus, 2003-2005
Table    Output condition of saloon car, 2003-2005
Table    Output condition of motorcycle, 2003-2005
Table    Output condition of remolded car, 2003-2005 unit: per
Table    Output production & sales condition of the corporations in China in the first half year of 2006
Table    First 20 car models in the sales list, Jan-June 2006
Table    Production of combustion engine & correlated products
Table    Production of the large-scale & middle-scale trucks
Table    Production of the small trucks
Table    Lubricant output of the whole nation & some companies, 2002
Table    The resent output, current structure & expectation
Table    Oil consumption status of some of the vehicles
Table    Oil consumption of some type of the vehicle after 2000 in China
Table    The resent sales status of the multi-grade oil in the America
Table    The apparent demand increase of China Lubricant, 2002-2006
Table    The tendency chart of the apparent demand of China Lubricant, 2002-2006
Table    The apparent demand increase & the import & export of China Lubricant, 2002-2006
Table    The apparent consumption of China Lubricant, 2005
Table    The tendency chart of China Lubricant output, 2002-2006
Table    The output and degree of concentration alternation of the top 30 lubricant companies, 2004-2006
Table    List of the top 30 lubricant companies & their alternation, 2004-2005
Table    List of the top 30 lubricant companies & their alternation, 2005 (1-6) to 2006 (1-6)
Table    The lubricant output list of all the provinces & cities, 2004-2005
Table    Mainly regional output alternation of China lubricant, 2005 (1-8) to 2006 (1-8)
Table    General information of import & export of China lubricant (total), 2002-2006 (1-8)
Table    Import & export quantity, amount & price of China lubricant (total), 2003-2006 (1-8)
Table    General information of China lubricant import, 2003-2005
Table    China lubricant import, 2003-2005 (by country)
Table    General information of China lubricant export, 2003-2006 (1-8)
Table    China lubricant export, 2003-2005 (by country)
Table    Oil consumption quality of the vehicle in 2001 in China
Table    The assembly & service oil of the main China saloon car
Table    China petrol engine oil consumption, consumption structure & the alteration tendency, 1996-2005
Table    Output of diesel engine & oil consumption quality in 2001 in China
Table    Demand structure & expectation of the China Internal Combustion Engine Oil, 2000-2010
Table    Demand structure & expectation of China Auto Gear Oil
Table    The gear oil demand alternation tendency
Table    Domestic auto gear oil compounds
Table    Demand structure of China hydraulic fluid
Table    The adaptability of the low-zinc & ash-free hydraulic fluid to the various standards
Table    Different petrol engine oil for different saloons
Table    Development status of the petrol engine oil of different quality level in American Petroleum Institute (API)
Table    Demand expectation of internal combustion engine oil for civilian vehicles at present and in ¡°Ten -Five¡± period
Table    Demand expectation of Gear Oil for Civilian Vehicle, 1997-2005
Table    Output volume of the civilian vehicles in China, 2004-2005
Table    Chinese Lube Base Oil Production Growth Trend, 2003-2006 (Jan-Aug)
Table    2003-2006 (1-8) Growth Trend of Chinese Lube Base Oil Requirements, 2003-2006 (Jan-Aug)
Table    Supply & Demand Balance of Chinese Lube Base Oil, 2003-2006 (Jan-Aug)
Table    Chinese Lube Base Oil Import & its Growth Situation, 2000-2006
Table    Generation Situation of Lube Base Oil Imported Money Amount, 2003-2005
Table    Chinese Lube Base Oil Import Amount & Money List, 2003-2006 (Jan-Aug)
Table    Imported Lubricants CFR Price Trend in the First Half Year of 2006
Table    Chinese Domestic Base Oil Import Amount & Imported Country List, Jan-June 2006
Table    Domestic Base Oil Export Amount & Imported Country List, Jan-June 2006
Table    Situation of China lubricant market competition, market positions of strategical groups & their strengths before 2006
Table    General structure of China lubricant market
Table    China lubricant market scale and its growth, 2001-2006
Table    Trend of China high-end automotive (retail) lubricant market share distribution, 2002-2006
Table    Trend of foreign & domestic brands high-end market shares, 2003-2005
Table    Major brands on China lubricant market
Table    Sales status chart of lubricant brands, 2000
Table    Great wall lube outputs, 1998-2006
Table    Revenue & profits of Sinopec Lube Co., 2002-2005
Table    Income & profit table of China Petroleum Dalian Prettification, 2003-2005
Table    Income & profit table of China Petroleum Fushun Petrochemistry Subsidiary, 2003-2005
Table    Income & profit table of China Petroleum Jingxi Petrochemistry Subsidiary, 2003-2005
Table    Income & profit table of China Petroleum Dushanzi Petrochemistry Subsidiary, 2003-2005
Table    Tongyi petroleum chemical industry lubricating oil output growth chart, 2003-2006
Table    Beijing Tongyi Petrochemistry Company Ltd. Income & profit fluctuation table, 2002-2006
Table    International authenticity obtained by Tongyi Petrochemistry
Table    The grow chart of Shell Tianjing lubricant output
Table    The schedule of sales income, cost, expense & profit of Shell Tianjing Petroleum & Chemical Co. Ltd.
Table    Shell lubricant products in China market
Table    The lubricant output data sheet of Castrol (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd., 2005-2006
Table    The grow data sheet of Mobil Taicang & Mobil Tianjing
Table    The schedule of sales income, cost, expense & profit of Mobil Taicang Co. Ltd.
Table    The schedule of sales income, cost, expense & profit of Mobil Tianjing Co. Ltd.
Table    The inspection form of Donguan lubricant market
Table    The grow sheet of the lubricant output of Caltex, 2003-2006
Table    The schedule of sales income, cost, expense & profit of Mobil Tianjing Co. Ltd., 2003-2006