What AMALIE Oil Company makes

AMALIE Oil Company is a lubricant blender, not a parts maker. It formulates, blends, and packages finished automotive and industrial fluids from base oils and additive chemistry it buys in bulk. The catalog runs across passenger-car motor oils (conventional, synthetic blend, and full synthetic lines including the Elixir and Imperial families), heavy-duty diesel engine oils, and a wide transmission-fluid range covering automatic (ATF), CVT, DCT, and manual applications. Its newest release, the Elixir DriveSync ULV ATF, is an ultra-low-viscosity fluid aimed at the 9- and 10-speed transmissions in current Ford and GM vehicles.

The industrial and specialty side is broad. AMALIE lists greases, hydraulic and gear oils, way lube, cutting and rolling oils for metalworking, transformer oils, heat-transfer and quenching fluids, fire-resistant water-glycol fluids, marine and railroad engine oils, natural-gas engine oils, antifreeze, brake fluid, and rust-prevention products. The company says it blends more than 3,000 distinct products and operates about 25 million gallons of storage at its Tampa plant on Port Tampa Bay. It also owns the historic Wolf's Head lubricant brand and runs a used-oil analysis program branded ALAS.

A large share of AMALIE's output is private-label. Public reporting and the company's own materials describe it as North America's largest private, independent blender of motor oils and industrial lubricants, supplying store-brand and program products for major auto-parts retailers alongside its own AMALIE-branded line. That dual role, contract blender plus brand owner, is the defining fact of the business.

Ownership and history

AMALIE traces to 1903, when the brand began in Franklin, Pennsylvania, as one of the original Pennsylvania-crude motor oils, and it still carries the slogan "Better than it has to be. Since 1903." The company credits itself with being the first to sell a multi-grade motor oil. The current owners, the Barkett family, entered the business in 1977 by buying Petroleum Packers at Port Tampa Bay, acquired the AMALIE brand from Sun Oil Company in 1997, and merged the two. The combined company has been headquartered in Tampa, Florida since 1998, at 1601 McCloskey Blvd.

The business is family-owned and independent, run day to day by the Barkett family: Harry Barkett as president and Rick Barkett as chief operating officer, per Florida Trend and Tampa Bay Times reporting. It has grown through acquisition as well as organically, adding Lubricating Specialties Co. in 2019 to extend its domestic and international service footprint. AMALIE is a visible name in its home market, having held the naming rights to Tampa's Amalie Arena from 2014 to 2025 and sponsoring the Tampa Bay Lightning. Apollo estimates roughly 360 employees; the company reports annual revenue near the low-$100-millions band, though it does not publish audited figures.

Certifications and quality

AMALIE positions quality as central to its brand, formulating products to meet API, ILSAC, and OEM performance specifications across its motor-oil and transmission-fluid lines, and it publishes product data sheets and safety data sheets for its catalog. Individual product sell sheets list the OEM and industry standards each fluid is built to meet, for example API SN and ILSAC GF-6 on passenger-car oils and named OEM approvals on hydraulic and gear oils. AMALIE has not published a current ISO or IATF quality-management certificate on its public site, so a management-system certification is not asserted here as a documented fact. Buyers evaluating AMALIE for program work should request its current certification and specification documentation directly.

Known customers

AMALIE's finished-goods customers are mostly its own retail and distribution channels; its private-label relationships are the documented ones.

Beyond finished-goods buyers, the customs record shows who AMALIE buys FROM: global base-oil and additive suppliers (see Sourcing evidence below). Those are facts about its supply base, not its customer list.

Sourcing evidence

AMALIE's US import record reads exactly like a lubricant blender's should: 191 sea shipments on file since 2015, dominated by bulk base oils and additive chemistry, not finished goods. The most recent shipments, dated August 30, 2026, are base oil from HD Hyundai and Shell Base Oil in Daesan, South Korea. By declared HS chapter the mix leads with petroleum oils (chapter 27), followed by miscellaneous chemicals and additive packages (chapter 38) and polymers such as viscosity modifiers (chapter 39). That "feedstock in, blended product out" pattern is the signature of a manufacturer, not a reseller.

Named suppliers span the global base-oil trade:

By region, the recorded supply base is split evenly between Asia (about 46%, led by the UAE at 48 shipments) and Europe (about 46%, led by the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium), with the balance from the Americas. This is a diversified feedstock strategy across the Gulf, East Asia, and Europe rather than dependence on a single origin, which matters for tariff exposure and nearshoring conversations in the base-oil market.

Coverage caveats: these are US ocean-freight bill-of-lading records only. Truck, rail, and pipeline movements do not appear, some records name freight intermediaries rather than manufacturers, and product categories come from declared manifest codes, which are noisy. Absence of a record is not evidence of absence.

Frequently asked questions

What does AMALIE Oil Company make?

AMALIE Oil Company blends and packages automotive and industrial lubricants: passenger-car motor oils (conventional, synthetic blend, and full synthetic), heavy-duty diesel oils, transmission fluids (ATF, CVT, DCT, manual), greases, hydraulic and gear oils, metalworking fluids, and specialty products. The company says it blends more than 3,000 distinct products at its Tampa plant and also owns the Wolf's Head brand.

Who owns AMALIE Oil Company?

AMALIE is a family-owned, independent business run by the Barkett family. The family entered the lubricant business in 1977, acquired the AMALIE brand from Sun Oil Company in 1997, and has been headquartered in Tampa, Florida since 1998. Harry Barkett is president and Rick Barkett is chief operating officer.

Where is AMALIE Oil Company located?

AMALIE Oil Company is headquartered at 1601 McCloskey Blvd., Tampa, Florida 33605, at Port Tampa Bay. The brand originated in Franklin, Pennsylvania in 1903 before the Tampa-based business consolidated operations there in 1998.

Who are AMALIE Oil Company's customers?

AMALIE is North America's largest private, independent lubricant blender and supplies private-label motor oils for major auto-parts retailers. It was named Advance Auto Parts' 2025 Front Room Inventory Vendor of the Year, and reporting names Walmart, AutoZone, O'Reilly, Advance Auto Parts, and Carquest among its private-label customers. It also sells its own AMALIE-branded line and ships to more than 100 countries.

What is AMALIE Oil Company's annual revenue?

AMALIE does not publish audited financials. Third-party data estimates annual revenue near the low-$100-millions range and roughly 360 employees. These are modeled bands rather than reported figures, and the company should be asked directly for current numbers.

What certifications does AMALIE Oil Company hold?

AMALIE formulates its products to meet API, ILSAC, and OEM performance specifications, and publishes product data sheets and safety data sheets across its catalog. It does not post a current ISO or IATF management-system certificate on its public site, so buyers should request its current certification and specification documentation directly.

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