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ExMo Aviation Lubes Plant at Full Throttle

ExMo Aviation Lubes Plant at Full Throttle

ExxonMobil announced last week that its new Port Allen, Louisiana, aviation lubricants plant is operating at full capaci …

Gulf Oil, Bajaj Link for Bike Oils

Gulf Oil, Bajaj Link for Bike Oils

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. has agreed to supply motorcycle engine oils for Bajaj Auto – a step, Gulf hopes, toward c …

Partner Gets Larger Stake in Hydrodec of North America

Partner Gets Larger Stake in Hydrodec of North America

Transformer recovery firm G&S Technologies Group acquired 12.45 percent of Hydrodec of North America for $1.7 million – …

Nynas Opens Northeast U.S. Depot

Nynas Opens Northeast U.S. Depot

Nynas opened a depot for naphthenic specialty oils in New Jersey for current and future customers in the United States a …

Lanka IOC Eyes Indonesia

Lanka IOC Eyes Indonesia

Lanka IOC is moving closer to entering the Indonesian lubricant market. After exploring opportunities on the sprawling a …

Rerefiner Gets Carbon Credit Approval

Rerefiner Gets Carbon Credit Approval

Hydrodec of North America now generates carbon offsets through rerefining of used transformer oil, thanks to approval of …

Ineos Plans 2nd Largest PAO Plant

Ineos Plans 2nd Largest PAO Plant

Ineos Oligomers said yesterday it will build a 120,000 metric tons per year low viscosity polyalphaolefin facility at an …

Showa Shell’s Tie-up with Idemitsu in Knots

Showa Shell’s Tie-up with Idemitsu in Knots

Idemitsu Kosan Co.s acquisition of Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. – inked last year for closure this month – has been delayed a …

Saudi Aramco-Motiva Vies for LyondellBasell Refinery?

Saudi Aramco-Motiva Vies for LyondellBasell Refinery?

Saudi Arabian Oil Co. and its U.S. refining joint-venture Motiva Enterprises are ahead in the race to acquire LyondellBa …

Participation in European Quality System Rises

Participation in European Quality System Rises

During the first six months of this year, 22 lubricant marketing companies signed a letter of conformance to confirm com …

Vertex to Market Adnoc’s Group III in U.S.

Vertex to Market Adnoc’s Group III in U.S.

Vertex Energy said yesterday that it will serve as marketer in the United States of API Group III base oils from Abu Dha …

Saudi Blender Plans Blending Plant

Saudi Blender Plans Blending Plant

Saudi lube supplier Gulf Start Factory Co. for Petroleum Industries signed a deal to build a blending plant in the indus …

Castrol India Posts Highest-ever Profit in Q2

Castrol India Posts Highest-ever Profit in Q2

Lubricant maker Castrol India Ltd. reported a 12 percent jump in its second quarter net profit, as volume growth in the …

Shell Opens Philippines Lubes Hub

Shell Opens Philippines Lubes Hub

Shell recently inaugurated a bulk storage terminal for lubricants in Guiguinto, the Philippines – its first new lubrican …

Asia Driving Growth in Marine Market

Asia Driving Growth in Marine Market

Booming globalization has the worldwide marine lubes market growing at a rate of more than 4 percent per year in the nex …

Apar, GTS, Balmer Record Upticks

Apar, GTS, Balmer Record Upticks

Indian lube suppliers Apar Industries and Balmer Lawrie both recorded strong margins despite weaker revenue, while China …

Savita Climbs, Tide Water Sinks in Q4

Savita Climbs, Tide Water Sinks in Q4

Indias Savita Oil Technologies Ltd. reported a 58 percent rise in net profit for the quarter ended March 31, thanks to l …

GP Petroleums Doubles Q4 Profit

GP Petroleums Doubles Q4 Profit

Indias GP Petroleums Ltd., a subsidiary of the United Arab Emirates-based Gulf Petrochem Group, posted a 100 percent ris …