Originally Posted By: 4WD
Read all - they shifted funds (Doha) to LNG to meet contract demands. Mobil is known for a blend of base stocks producing all of them (G3, PAO, AN, ester) in mass quantities- and of course market in countries that don't consider GIII synthetic. You can look at the US version and German version (has all German OEM creds,, even BMW) ... and they lay down close with both VI fairly higher than PP.). Even the Visom does not get in the ballpark on VI.
I believe you are talking about Mobil 1 "New Life" 0w-40 (which was the VISOM version). Supposedly that product was actually the same all over the world, but PDS did show some variance country to country.
When the "FS" version came out (and it is sold only in the US and Canada at this point unless that has very recently changed) the big thing was, as indicated in that thread, that there was mention of them using GTL as the majority of the base (FT method, as shown in the MSDS). Which was strange, and a first for any Mobil product we'd seen on this site. This product does not carry BMW LL-01, unlike the VISOM-based version still sold abroad.