Business

Shell completed the sale last week of an oil products storage facility in the Jebal Ali Free Zone area of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Used to store l ...

Profits tumbled for three Bangladesh lubricant companies – MJL Bangladesh, Lub-rref and Eastern Lubricants Blenders Ltd. – for the quarter ended M ...

Chevron Lubricants Lanka Plc. reported hefty increases in profit and sales for the quarter ending March 31, and Lanka IOC Plc. posted much higher prof ...

Fuchs Petrolub SE has merged two subsidiaries in Germany – Fuchs Schmierstoffe GmbH and Fuchs Lubritech GmbH – to form a single business in its ho ...

Indian lubricants blender Maximus International Ltd. said it had weathered supply chain disruption, competitiveness in pricing and low demand in the m ...

Contributing editor Apu Gosalia reviews the last 12 months of sustainability and offers guidance for companies' future activities.

Raw material prices were a common theme in the earnings of Japan’s KH Neochem and Yushiro Chemical for the quarter ending March 31. The higher costs ...

Tribal knowledge in the base oil industry appears to be tapering off. Fortunately, quality base oil training can fill this widening knowledge gap.

Strategy Over Ideology

June 6, 2022

Should companies in the lubricants industry take public political stances? Sara Lefcourt weighs in.

The industry needs a unified approach to sustainability standards, panelists said at the UKLA sustainability conference.

Specialty chemicals distributor and service provider Azelis reached agreements to buy two related distributors in India – Chemo India and Unipharm L ...

Indian transformer oil supplier Apar Industries reported large increases in net profit and in revenues from its transformer and specialty oils busines ...

Petrobras announced last week an agreement to sell its Lubnor refinery in Fortaleza, Brazil, to a consortium of companies including asphalt supplier G ...

German independent lubricants maker Fuchs Group entered the battery market by acquiring 28% of the shares in E-Lyte Innovations GmbH, a start-up that ...

Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, has approached Valvoline, one of the world’s largest independent lubricant suppliers, about buying ...

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. reported improved quarterly revenues and sales volumes for the quarter ended March 31 and a large increase in revenues ...

Vertex Energy Inc. reported large increases in gross profit and revenues for its used motor oil collection and processing business, while Perimeter So ...

Cosan’s Moove made a splash this week with an almost half-billion-dollar acquisition for PetroChoice, the largest lubricants distributor in the Unit ...

Russia’s antitrust regulator approved last week Lukoil’s purchase of Shell’s retail and lubricants business in the country. The assets include a ...

Citing lower sales volumes and tighter margins, Thai Oil’s base oil business recorded a 59% year-to-year drop in net profit for the quarter ending M ...