wherein said feed further comprises a diluent wherein said diluent comprises at least one hydrocarbon fluid selected from c6 c13 paraffinic fluids wherein said oligomerization catalyst is selected from alcl 3 albr 3 and mixtures thereof wherein said oligomerization catalyst is an alcl 3 water complex having 0 5 moles of water per mole of alcl 3 wherein said oligomerization reaction zone comprises a continuous stirred tank reactor cstr wherein said oligomerization reaction zone comprises more than one oligomerization reactor in series wherein the oligomerization conditions in said reactor include a temperature of from about 26 and 60 u00b0 c and a pressure of from about atmospheric to about 50 psia further comprising a step of distillation to remove unreacted monomeric and dimeric species followed by hydrogenation of the resulting product without further separation to saturate the oligomers followed by recovery of said pao and also a preferred embodiment including a composition made by any one or more of the preceding processes as would be apparent and practicable to one of ordinary skill in the art in possession of the present disclosure and or also additional limitations that are more preferred which are selected from at least one of the following wherein said at least one pao comprising c30 c36 trimers c40 c48 tetramers and c50 c60 tetramers of 1 decene and 1 dodecene and wherein said at least one pao is selected from a pao having a viscosity of about 40 cst at 100 u00b0 c a pao having a viscosity of about 100 cst at 100 u00b0 c trade names used herein are indicated by a u2122 symbol or u00ae.