What is Going on with PQIA?

[Boomer]

I just checked their site and the last oil analysis that they published was in 2023. Do they still exist? If so, are they still functioning or have they just stopped doing anything. I always checked their analyses on oils and looked for the bad actors so I could tell my non-BITOG friends to not use to use those brands.

If anyone has information, I would like to hear it. I have tried to contact them with zero response.

 

[Zee09]

I thought it went belly up back then???

 

[fantastic]

I just checked their site and the last oil analysis that they published was in 2023. Do they still exist? If so, are they still functioning or have they just stopped doing anything. I always checked their analyses on oils and looked for the bad actors so I could tell my non-BITOG friends to not use to use those brands.

If anyone has information, I would like to hear it. I have tried to contact them with zero response.

Could be just that specifications don't change all the time so they test every so many years when API changes? Just a thought. Send em an email?

 

[Bud_One]

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Thread 'Is the Petroleum Quality Institute of America (PQIA) organization defunct?'

Jan 30, 2024

I go to the PQIA site sometimes to look at the additive packages for different oils (www.pqia.org). I noticed that the last new oil analysis posted was back in March 2023, which is almost a year ago. If you go through the VOA reports for different oil weights, you will notice that most are out of date by several years.

A simple site updating delay would not last for almost a year. I would think there would be new oil analyses posted every 2-3 weeks or so.
Something is not right. Lots of sponsors, so money should not be an issue.

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[Boomer]

So it seems nobody knows what has happened. Shame that PQIA seems to have become defunct as the work they did was important and valuable.