Chevron and Shell both hold the technology to make group II's, but
unlike Chevron who is totally running with the group II and III
technology and licensing it to others too, Shell doesn't seem to do
anything with it. I have heard that perhaps they use it in there
aviation oils, but all there earth bound oils don't use them at all.

So no, Rotella is a conventional group I oil, flaws and all. I used to
really like this product, but when Chevron became availible in my area,
I switched to delo. I could get it cheaper and it was a better product.

Castrol, Esso/Exxon, mobil, quakerstate, shell, and texaco, Kendal, and
pretty much everyone else use group I oils in there conventional
products.

Castrol switched to the Syntec 'synthetic' to using group III oils to
save some money ( didn't lower the price on the product though ). It
used to be a group IV/V (pao/ester) mix, like mobil 1 and others.

Only Chevron, Petro canada, and Pennzoil right now produce Group II and
III oils for there conventional oils.

On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 11:40:08 -0500
"Horace K. Sawyer" <firestream@mindspring.com> wrote:

> What about Shell Rotella?  What group is it?  I never noticed on the
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