Conventional Base Stocks

Waste oil collector Atlantic Pacific LLC will relaunch its Midwest operations with a focus on Chicago, with three trucks and 8,500 gallons per day cap ...

A fire caused by a ruptured product tank injured one worker at Bango Refinings rerefinery in Fallon, Nev., Monday morning.In a news release issued Mon ...

NexLube Project on Hold

December 4, 2013

NexLube suspended construction of its base oil rerefinery in Florida because costs exceeded its budget.Our cost estimated now by our consulting engine ...

Fire Ravages Ohio Rerefinery

December 4, 2013

An explosion and fire destroyed the processing unit of Hydrodecs transformer oil rerefinery in Canton, Ohio, on Sunday afternoon, causing no injuries ...

VeroLube Inc. of Canada plans to build API Group II and III rerefineries in Alberta, Canada, and in Houston, with construction expected to start as ea ...

Rerefining Projects Down Under

November 20, 2013

Not much waste oil rerefining occurs in Australia, but two projects currently underway should boost production of rerefined base stocks.Southern Oil R ...

Hydrodec Group will collaborate with Essar Oil UK on a joint venture oil rerefining center at Stanlow, U.K., including a rerefinery with API Group II+ ...

HCC Picks Up Pick-Up Routes

November 6, 2013

Heritage-Crystal Clean agreed this week to buy four branches of Universal Lubricants subsidiary RS Used Oil Services in a deal that could increase the ...

Prista Recycling of Bulgaria recently broke ground on its first base oil rerefinery in Ukraine, a $60 million investment, claiming it is the first suc ...

FCC Environmental said it is on track to break ground on its $50 million rerefinery in Baltimore in the second quarter of 2014, and to commence operat ...

Reflecting global oversupply, Petronas will postpone its plans to increase API Group III base oil capacity at its Melaka refinery in Malaysia, the sta ...

India-based Century Refineries broke ground last month on a $1.7 million rerefinery outside Bay City, Texas, with vacuum gas oil production slated to ...

Chinas Rerefiners Modernize

October 16, 2013

CHONGQING, China – Primitive and unproductive to date, Chinas rerefining industry has begun to expand and modernize, the head of the countrys re ...

API Group III base oil will enjoy the strongest base stock demand growth through 2017, followed by Group II, consultancy Kline and Co. concluded in st ...

NexLube now expects to launch its base oil rerefinery in Florida in July 2014, following delays related to weather and equipment. Weve had a lot of w ...

EMI Revs Up Hydrotreater

October 2, 2013

Environmental Management Inc. opened a hydrotreating unit in Kansas City, Kan., where it will produce 9 million gallons of rerefined and recycled tran ...

Hydrodec Adds UK Collector

September 18, 2013

Transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec Group acquired used lube oil collector OSS for 4.7 million (U.S. $6.3 million), securing feedstock for a planned pi ...

The Russian Ministry of Energy proposed a bill for collection and treatment of waste lubricants, according to its Aug. 13 post in the state portal for ...

Hydrodec Results Improve

August 21, 2013

Transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec posted a $1 million operating loss for the six months ending June 30, improving from a $1.9 million operating loss ...

Rerefiner Evergreen Oil and parent Evergreen Environmental Holdings designated Clean Harbors Inc. as initial winning bidder for Evergreens assets, acc ...