Base oil production in the United States fell 20% in June, compared to the same month last year, according to government data released last Thursday. ...

To help reduce potential for environmental contamination, an Argentinian waste management company launched a used lubricant collection and treatment p ...

The competitiveness of Kazakhstan lubricant makers against Russian counterparts suffered because of the high duties paid by the former to export produ ...

A waste oil rerefinery and lubricant manufacturing complex will be constructed in Mersin province in southeastern Turkey, the local government said in ...

Brazil imported 17% less base oil, and the South American country's base oil exports declined 14% in June, compared to the volumes in the same month l ...

Despite increases in used oil collection and sales volumes of rerefined base oils, Clean Harbors reported lower second quarter revenue and profits for ...

Base oil production in the United States declined 9% in May, although the volume reached its highest in a month since last July, according to data rel ...

Chevron said Sunday that it began making 4 centiStoke API Group III base stocks this month at its refinery in Richmond, California – a facility that ...

Gabriela Wheeler outlines the major factors that have placed downward pressure on base oil prices this year.

Heritage-Crystal Clean, owner of North America’s second-largest rerefinery, announced today an agreement to be bought by private equity firm J.F. Le ...

A public-private partnership to build a rerefinery capable of producing base oils was announced recently during an event in St. Petersburg, Russia. Th ...

Base oil exports from the United States rose 11%, and imports increased 18% in April, according to data released by the U.S. Energy Information Admini ...

U.S. base oil production decreased 5% in April, compared to the same month last year, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data. Output ...

Waste oil collector Slicker Recycling Ltd. acquired competitor Oil Monster for an undisclosed sum in mid-May. The purchase further strengthens Slicker ...

BP and Shell have decided not to repair their damaged Sapref joint venture, signaling that the Durban, South Africa, refinery – which includes the l ...

Used electrical transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec has developed a new revenue stream, selling carbon credits to businesses such as energy companies t ...

A competition court in Brazil today approved Grepar Participacoes’ acquisition of the Lubnor refinery from Petrobras – a decision intended as the ...

The summer driving season usually ushers in increased base oil activity, but market dynamics this year have deviated from the norm.

Luberef has contracted to increase the amount of feedstock supplied to its base oil plant in Yanbu’al Bahr, Saudi Arabia – a change that will boos ...

Italy recycled 98% of used lubricating oils collected there last year – the sixth consecutive year that it met or topped that level – according to ...