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Lubricant sales and marketing managers can count themselves among the best-paid professionals in the United States, acco …

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Racing headlong from January through June unhindered by major turnarounds, U.S. refiners set a new record for first-half …

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Global base oil refining capacity has climbed above 57 million metric tons a year, according to the new 2018 Global Guid …

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Ted Selby, a lubricant testing pioneer whose inventions are used worldwide to unlock the secrets of oil rheology, oxidat …

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