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Why choose OATS?

With the performance and success of your business at stake, we understand that your choice of information solutions partner is of paramount importance, and we recognise you require a partner who will evolve with your ever-changing needs.

 


OATS Performance Promise logoOur client partnerships are built on the OATS Performance Promise, a guarantee that we will always provide:

Information of the highest quality and accuracy
Integrity in all our actions
Individual service and timely responses
Innovation to meet your needs

With 25 years of experience in the lubricants industry, we believe we have developed three aspects of our business that will make us fully compatible with yours: capability, credibility and compatibility.

 


Capability

OATS - globeOur range of solutions can meet both global and local needs with availablity in 22 languages. Whatever your role – and whether you're involved in a distribution company, or a local, national, international or global oil producer – our solutions can be specifically tailored to your requirements. 

We can also implement our information solutions in an impressive timeframe. Our online solutions are hosted on our own servers, running at 99.9% reliability and with full security and backup systems. Dedicated servers are available for more sophisticated extranet-based solutions.

We've designed our solutions for streamlined, easy, intuitive day-to-day use. Our optional training programme will also allow you to get the most from the more advanced aspects of our systems.

OATS lubricants solutions are available in 22 languages

 


Credibility

OATS 25th Anniversary LogoIn our 25 years in the lubricants industry we've worked with every major oil company and provided technical and marketing solutions to lubricants businesses in over 90 countries. While our customers include all six of the world's largest lubricants producers, we also work with numerous smaller businesses too.

Our EARL database, upon which many of our solutions are built, is acknowledged as the world's leading lubricants recommendations database, and we manage over 100 lubricant recommendations websites, attracting over 1 million visits per month.

OATS is a member of the United Kingdom Lubricants Association (UKLA) and the Independent Union of the European Lubricants Industry (UEIL) as an ISO 9001 supplier.

 


Compatibility

We believe that the success of our solutions is based on the strength of the partnerships we build. We've developed an in-depth understanding of the lubricants industry, the challenges faced by its sectors and the people within it.

Our senior management team, together with other specialist consultants, visit over 30 countries each year for extensive dialogue with senior industry executives in sales, marketing and technical roles to stay abreast of their needs, listen to their comments, evaluate trends and identify areas for our next range of innovative solutions.

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Our solutions are available in 22 languages

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  • Chinese (simplified and traditional)
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English (UK and US)
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese (and Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Turkish

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OATS clients include:

AGIP, Amalie, BPCastrol, CEPSA, Chevron, CITGO, ConocoPhillips, Engen, ExxonMobil, Fuchs, Galp, Gulf, Kuwait, Lantmännen, Motaquip, Motul, OKQ8, Olipes, Petro-Canada, Petrobras, Preem, Quaker State, Shell, Statoil, Tamoil, Total, Uno-X, Verkol

What OATS customers say about us

"OATS provides an impartial service across the lubricants business and has excellent working relationships across the majority of OEMs".

"OATS has had a positive impact and effect on my business and you continue to innovate adding new products to further improve the system".

"EARL has helped the group gain new business and retain existing customers with simple, flexible solutions. It's an essential business tool".

"OATS solutions prove they can work across a number of languages and cultures effectively, then share the best practices across the business to aid increased efficiency".

Our clients

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