Simon Johns

SIMON@LUBESNGREASES.COM

Managing Editor InSites - Simon Johns is the managing editor of Lubes'n'Greases’ InSites. He joined the company in September 2017, bringing a decade of publishing experience, most of which was spent heading an upstream-focused publication covering global oil and gas markets. Simon hails from the south of England but currently lives in Istanbul, where in his spare time he plays music and hosts a weekly radio program with his son.

Recent Articles

Briefly Noted

Briefly Noted

New Depot for U.S. LubricantsU.S. Lubricants has opened a new distribution warehouse in the Philadelphia area, expandin …

Career Moves

Career Moves

Chevron OroniteChevron Oronite made Laurent Jumelle as its new president, following the transition of Cary Knuth to a d …

New Sanctions on Russian Products “Ill Thought Out”

New Sanctions on Russian Products “Ill Thought Out”

The European Union’s 18th package of sanctions on Russia will have little effect on base oil markets or revenues, acc …

20 Years that Reshaped Mineral Base Oils

20 Years that Reshaped Mineral Base Oils

The geography, quality and scale of global base oil supply has fundamentally changed over the past two decades. Global …

Global Base Oil Oversupply, Argus

Global Base Oil Oversupply, Argus

A global oversupply of base oils weighed on U.S. base oil margins through 2025 and is expected to keep pressure on the …

Sanctioned Russian Products Threaten EU Market, UEIL

Sanctioned Russian Products Threaten EU Market, UEIL

In an open letter from the Union of the European Lubricant Industry (UEIL) to the European Commission, the union’s pr …

Fuchs, Windey Release Immersion Storage Test Results

Fuchs, Windey Release Immersion Storage Test Results

Fuchs and Windey Innovolts validated the long-term stability of an immersion energy storage system following more than …

Ingevity Completes Sale of North Charleston Crude Tall Oil Refinery

Ingevity Completes Sale of North Charleston Crude Tall Oil Refinery

Ingevity has completed the sale of its North Charleston, South Carolina crude tall oil refinery and most of its Perform …

Luberef, Aramco MoU Signals Base Oil Expansion at Jazan

Luberef, Aramco MoU Signals Base Oil Expansion at Jazan

Saudi Arabian base oil refiner Luberef and national oil company Saudi Aramco are evaluating the feasibility of an API G …

Briefly Noted

Briefly Noted

Caltex Taps Santy Trading as its Bahrain DistributorCaltex Lubricants appointed Santy Trading as its official distribut …

BP Castrol Stake Sale Accelerates $20bn Divestment Drive

BP Castrol Stake Sale Accelerates $20bn Divestment Drive

BP agreed to sell a 65% stake in its Castrol lubricants division to U.S. infrastructure investor Stonepeak, in a deal t …

UK Government Bankrolls INEOS Grangemouth Investment

UK Government Bankrolls INEOS Grangemouth Investment

INEOS said it will move forward with a £150 million investment at its Grangemouth petrochemical complex in Scotland, s …

EU Automotive Package Signals Shift Toward Flexible Decarbonization

EU Automotive Package Signals Shift Toward Flexible Decarbonization

The European Commission published its automotive package, outlining initial measures aimed at aligning the bloc’s dec …

UK Slaps Anti-Dumping Tax on Lubes from Lithuania and UAE

UK Slaps Anti-Dumping Tax on Lubes from Lithuania and UAE

Almost 18 months after initiating an investigation, the United Kingdom’s Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) issued its …

New Feedstock Agreement Secures Luberef Group I Output

New Feedstock Agreement Secures Luberef Group I Output

A new feedstock agreement with state-owned Saudi Aramco ensures operations at Luberef’s API Group I base oil unit in …

Aster Pumps Cash into Pulau Bukom  

Aster Pumps Cash into Pulau Bukom  

Aster Chemicals and Energy will fork out U.S.$155 million to upgrade its refinery on Pulau Bukom in Singapore, the compa …

Briefly Noted

Briefly Noted

Eneos Hastens Cooling Fluid DevelopmentEneos Holdings is using NVIDIA’s Alchemi platform to speed development of imme …

GEIR Presses EU for Regulatory Support

GEIR Presses EU for Regulatory Support

Representatives of Europe’s waste oil rerefining industry called on the European Union to help grow the industry with …