Conventional Base Stocks

New Zealands antitrust regulator has settled on a resolution to proceedings against a waste oil collection division of EnviroWaste over alleged anti-c ...

Tough Half Year for Hydrodec

September 30, 2015

Transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec Group posted a $7.5 million loss for the six months ending June 30, compared to a $3 million loss during the first ...

China has over 400 facilities capable of recycling used lubricants, but many are small and dont produce base oils, according to a Chinese rerefiner wh ...

After years in the doldrums, the rerefined base oils market is garnering an increasingly sizeable market share in the Middle East despite suffering fr ...

Safety-Kleens parent company on Monday announced it will begin charging to collect used oil from all non-contract generators and will expand its appli ...

Safety-Kleen will pay the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency a $90,000 penalty to resolve violations of federal oil pollution prevention regulations ...

Russias lubricant industry hailed the waste oil treatment regulation implemented in 2014 by the Customs Union that Russia shares with Belarus and Kaza ...

A Hydrodec subsidiary leased a 9-acre site in northwest United Kingdom for use in the first phase of its planned 75 million liters per year API Group ...

Arising from base oil refineries, these three high-value specialties should see growth in coming years -- and a fair share of challenges as well.

MOSCOW – Russia earlier this year implemented a federal law mandating treatment and recycling of various wastes, including used lubricants. Russ ...

A Belarus-Cyprus entity will open a base oil rerefinery in Belarus, a $20 million investment. The plants opening ceremony today will be attended by re ...

Hydrodec this week will begin operating two of the six newly built production trains at its Canton, Ohio, transformer oil rerefinery, which had been s ...

California is considering a bill that encourages the recycling of used motor oil derived from plant- or animal-based feedstocks. NORA (An Association ...

Vertex Energy announced that it began leasing the Bango Oil base oil rerefinery in Fallon, Nev. this month. The Houston-based rerefiner said its origi ...

Southern Oil Refinings recently relocated rerefinery includes a hydrotreater, and SOR says the experience of operating it on behalf of joint venture p ...

Hydrodec said it plans for all six production trains at its rebuilt and expanded transformer oil refinery in Ohio to be operational starting May 20. T ...

Heritage-Crystal Cleans oil business segment posted $49.7 million in revenues for its fourth fiscal quarter ending Jan. 3, up 18.4 percent from $42 mi ...

Birch Hill Equity Partners completed its purchase of Newalta Corp.s Industrial Division last week, including its rerefinery in North Vancouver, Canada ...

Gathering Clouds

March 2, 2015

Brazil appears to be falling behind on its targets for gathering used lubricating oil, missing some 14.7 million liters in first-half 2014 alone. That ...

Hydrodec Group recently selected a site in Eastham, U.K. and began front-end engineering and design for its 75 million liters per year API Group II/II ...