Contributor

estaff@lng.com

Recent Articles

King Industries Expands Alkylated Naphthalene Production

King Industries Expands Alkylated Naphthalene Production

King Industries, Inc., a specialty chemicals manufacturer headquartered in Connecticut, U.S., has begun full operations …

Shell to Flog Off Jiffy Lube

Shell to Flog Off Jiffy Lube

Shell agreed to sell Jiffy Lube International and its subsidiary Premium Velocity Auto to an affiliate of Monomoy Capit …

Briefly Noted

Briefly Noted

Repsol’s Bike Oils Hit the Track

Repsol Lubricants introduced the Extreme range of motorcycle oils, developed usi …

Fuchs Ups Output from U.K. Site

Fuchs Ups Output from U.K. Site

The United Kingdom operating unit of Fuchs has increased manufacturing capacity at its Stoke-on-Trent site, investing i …

Idemitsu and Aramco Ink Base Oil Deal

Idemitsu and Aramco Ink Base Oil Deal

Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. and Saudi Aramco signed a base oil supply agreement aimed at strengthening supply stability an …

Briefly Noted

Briefly Noted

Vertex Expands Group III Portfolio with VTX-R6

Vertex Energy Inc. has added VTX-R6, a 6 centiStoke API Group III  …

Pentas Flora Japan RRBO Expansion

Pentas Flora Japan RRBO Expansion

Malaysian waste management company and rerefiner Pentas Flora will supply rerefined API Group II+ and Group III base oi …

Dos and Don’ts for Commissioning a Blending Plant

Dos and Don’ts for Commissioning a Blending Plant

Ganesan Ganapathi offers best practices
for commissioning and starting up finished
lubricant factories.

Is the PCMO Market Losing Its Middle? 

Is the PCMO Market Losing Its Middle? 

Thomas Glenn observes that synthetic
blends are falling from the middle tiers of
the passenger car motor oil market.

Next-gen Lubes Revolutionize Automotive Assembly

Next-gen Lubes Revolutionize Automotive Assembly

In the fast-evolving landscape of automotive manufacturing, assembly robots are the unsung heroes of precision engineer …

Idemitsu Inks Base Oil Alliance With Saudi Aramco

Idemitsu Inks Base Oil Alliance With Saudi Aramco

Japanese refiner Idemitsu Kosan Co. and Saudi Aramco inked a agreement to cover the supply and procurement of lubricati …

Briefly Noted

Briefly Noted

Chevron Delo TorqForce MP Secures Allison TES 781 Approval Chevron announced that Delo TorqForce MP is the first a …

Briefly Noted

Briefly Noted

Petrolimex Rebrands to Highlight Digital and Green Energy ShiftVietnam National Petroleum Group, known as Petrolimex, h …

China Base Oil Imports Down in 2025

China Base Oil Imports Down in 2025

China’s base oil imports totaled 1.46894 million metric tons in 2025, a decline of 4.4% from the previous year, accor …

Fuchs Buys Out Opet Share of Turkish JV

Fuchs Buys Out Opet Share of Turkish JV

Germany-based Fuchs SE will take full control of its lubricants joint venture with Opet in Turkey, the company announce …

Castrol and HPCL Mull Rerefined Opportunities in India

Castrol and HPCL Mull Rerefined Opportunities in India

Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd, one of the India’s largest integrated energy companies, and Castrol India, the country …

Briefly Noted

Briefly Noted

Ergon and Japan Sun Oil in Transformer Oil Distribution DealErgon formalized a transformer oil distribution agreement w …

The Emergence of Rerefined Group III

The Emergence of Rerefined Group III

Kline & Co.’s Anuj Kumar observes Group III base oils sprouting from a few used oil
rerefiners and predicts more will …