Russia’s Sakhalin region is preparing to convert much of its vehicle parc to run on compressed natural gas, a zero-emission alternative fuel, an ind ...

New light vehicles sales in the United States are expected to reach near 1.1 million units in May according to a recent forecast by Cox Automotive, do ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has hammered Brazil’s finished lubricant industry, a consultant said this week, causing a sharp reduction in demand that could ...

The lubricants market faces a “very gradual” recovery, regardless of the ultimate size of the dip in the economy or the economic modeling scenario ...

Ukraine lubricant companies contended last week that they are facing a serious financial crisis because of a new base oil import duty that went into e ...

Pertamina disclosed last week that Saudi Aramco has withdrawn from discussions about a plan to jointly expand the Indonesian energy company’s refine ...

Lubricant supplier Lanka IOC reported a net loss while the lubricants business segment of Malaysian state-owned oil firm Petronas’ domestic marketin ...

Sara Lefcourt explores which trends may be accelerated—or made permanent—by covid-19.

Moove – Cosan’s lubricants production and distribution arm – reported lower net income, revenue and sales volumes for the first quarter ending M ...

Economies around the world may be reopening from lockdowns imposed to prevent the spread of Covid-19, but base oil demand in many places remains sharp ...

Altivia Oxide Chemicals LLC acquired KMCO and its associated chemical ethoxylation manufacturing assets in Crosby, Texas, last week out of Chapter 7 b ...

A new report by market research company Data Bridge forecasts the food-grade lubricants segment will grow by 7.1 percent by 2027 to a value of U.S. $3 ...

Fears that the market for aviation lubricants and greases in the Middle East is unravelling as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic are exaggerated, anal ...

The share of vehicles in Russia that use American Petroleum Institute’s API SM or API SN motor oil categories increased in the last couple of years ...

Japan’s base oil production for April fell 20 percent compared to the same month last year, according to data recently released by the country’s M ...

Stated-owned Thai Oil Group’s base oil business reported a major increase in net profit on lower sales revenue in the first quarter.

Base oil production in China has largely returned to normal levels, but demand in other parts of the world is still down significantly because of the ...

Hydraulic systems need the correct viscosity fluid to balance opposing efficiency loss mechanisms. A team of German researchers looked into how this p ...

Trends related to electric vehicles accounted for half of the 10 most popular answers in a global survey of tribologists and lubrication engineers abo ...

Canada-based distributor Parkland Fuel Corp. posted a 26 percent increase in consolidated revenue for its lubricant segment for the quarter ending Mar ...