Russian lubricants marketer Gazprom Neft-SM expanded its sales network to Germany, Ukraine, Turkey and Iraq, the company said last week. Earlier this ...

NewMarkets Afton Chemical additives subsidiary saw an increase in operating profit and a slight decrease in revenue, while South Korean base oil refin ...

Cosan signed a partnership agreement with South Koreas S-Oil to distribute Ultra-S API Group III base oil in Brazil. With this agreement, Cosan LE w ...

Crown Oil UK acquired key assets of lubricants distributor Samuel Cooke and Co. for an undisclosed amount. The distributors assets were earmarked for ...

Marine fuel supplier Chemoil Energy Ltd. acquired a 50 percent stake in Chemlube International and sister company Sopetra S.A. The deal provides the l ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners and independent lubricant blender Fuchs Petrolub each posted increases in net income and sales for the second quar ...

This week brought a wave of financial reports for second quarter earnings from Afton Chemical, Heritage-Crystal Clean, Quaker Chemical, SK Lubricants, ...

Lukoil filed for arbitration in its 2008 acquisition of a lubricants blending plant and other assets in Turkey, fearing it might lose ground in the co ...

Castrol India reported that its second quarter income fell to 1.21 billion rupees (U.S. $21.9 million), a decrease of 15.16 percent from last years se ...

SINGAPORE – Global base oil capacity is expanding at unprecedented rates, and most new projects enjoy production cost advantages, putting pressu ...

A Los Angeles-based private equity company yesterday completed its $830 million acquisition of Tank Holdings Corp., which makes polyethylene and steel ...

WD-40 posted net income of $9.1 million for the quarter ending May 31, up 11 percent from the year-ago period, with net sales up 1.8 percent at $87 mi ...

A dramatic increase in export numbers reported by Belarus for base oils and lubricants in the first quarter of 2012 has many observers of the Russian ...

The worlds lubricating grease manufacturers created nearly 2.4 billion pounds of the stuff during 2011, a record-high volume, according to data releas ...

Calumet Specialty Products continued its recent path of aggressive growth last week when it purchased Royal Purple, a privately held commercial and in ...

Brenntag signed an agreement to acquire Milan, Italy-based Petrolube, which distributes Infineums specialty lubricant and fuel additives. According t ...

After a fast start to the year, first-quarter U.S. base oil production seemed to be dampened by rising feedstock costs, numerous refinery turnarounds ...

Todays economic forecast may be cloudy, but the past two years were good for Germany’s grease industry, with sales reaching pre-recession levels ...

ADM Capital and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) jointly paid 48 million (U.S. $61 million) for a 30 percent stake in Bulga ...

William R. Downey, Jr., has left Kline & Co., where he headed the consultancys energy practice, and has joined Roland Berger Strategy Consultants ...