A Bahrainian petroleum products supplier earlier this year opened an oil rerefinery with capacity to produce 36,000 metric tons per year of base oils. ...

LONDON – For API Group I solvent refining plants in a world of high-priced crude, only 40 to 60 percent of their product yield is more valuable ...

Safety-Kleen Canada broke ground recently on a $26 million expansion of its Breslau, Ontario, rerefinery that will raise by 25 percent both its annual ...

Royal Dutch Shell continues to negotiate with Essar for the potential sale of three European refineries, but it has also reopened such talks with othe ...

Heritage-Crystal Clean on Monday outlined plans for a new rerefinery in Indiana that would begin production in 2012 of about 2,000 barrels per day of ...

Safety-Kleen Inc. on Monday announced a $15 million expansion of its East Chicago, Ind., rerefinery, which is expected to increase its API Group I bas ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – New API Group III refineries on both sides of the Malacca Straits are making the Singapore-Malaysia-Indonesia region a ...

The United States lags well behind many European countries in the recycling of used lubricants, and the U.S. rate is unlikely to rise much without gov ...

A Canadian start-up is planning to join the ranks of North Americas rerefiners. Saskalta Corp. is building a used oil processing plant at the former s ...

Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. announced last week that it plans to build a Group III base oil plant at its refinery in southwest India. T ...

The worldwide market for naphthenic base oils is tight, with a slight deficit that should continue at least through 2007, according to Swedish refiner ...

ConocoPhillips last week launched a new line of white oils and food-grade lubricants to be marketed under its Conoco, Phillips 66 and 76 brand names. ...

Motiva Enterprises announced last week an expansion that will increase capacity at its Port Arthur, Texas, Group II base oil plant by 13,700 barrels p ...