Mergers & Acquisitions

Shanghai-based DongHao Oil Group announced yesterday it entered a debt reconstruction agreement that it hopes will be its first step toward exiting a ...

Eastman Chemical plans to acquire alkylamines and alkylamine derivatives producer Taminco for $2.8 billion cash, under an agreement that includes a 30 ...

Welcome to Amalie Arena

September 17, 2014

The sports arena in downtown Tampa Bay, Fla., was renamed Amalie Arena under a long-term partnership between lubricants blender and packager Amalie Oi ...

Chevron U.S.A. Inc.s Brazilian affiliate has established the companys first API Group II base oil supply hub in South America. Located at Rio de Janei ...

Rosneft Partners With Avtovaz

September 3, 2014

Russian state-owned oil giant Rosneft signed a partnership with the countrys largest auto maker, Avtovaz, which includes factory fill, industrial lube ...

Bureau Veritas, a French standards testing and certification firm, acquired U.S.-based oil analysis and condition monitoring specialists Analysts Inc. ...

Quaker Chemical acquired specialty grease manufacturer ECLI Products LLC for $52 million and plans to continue growth in the specialty grease market t ...

DuBois Hooks Angler

August 20, 2014

DuBoisChemicals acquired Angler Industries for an undisclosed price – a deal it says will strengthen its industrial cleaning, surface treatment ...

China Rerun Chemical and Liaoning Huachen Petrochemical are discussing potential areas of cooperation, including a merger of the companies equity, Rer ...

Total and Kia signed a long-term lubricants supply deal for the Korean automakers car dealer network in Russia. Under the five-year agreement, Total V ...

Facing up to Japans shrinking lube market, Cosmo Oil Co. announced last week a supply agreement to have its lubricants manufactured by TonenGenerals E ...

Vertex Energy Inc. plans to acquire Heartland Group Holdings – including its rerefinery in Columbus, Ohio – for $16.5 million. Heartlands ...

Hydrodec signed engineering, licensing and technology collaboration agreements with Chemical Engineering Partners for a planned U.K. rerefinery capabl ...

Lukoil sold its Ukranian retail fuels business to Austrian company AMIC Energy Management GmbH, but said its lube distribution in the country will rem ...

Kluber Lubrication and sister company Chem-Trend opened a research and development center near Shanghai, their parent company, Freudenberg Group, anno ...

Newly formed Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. is scheduled to be listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange Thursday, completing its demerger from Gulf Oil Cor ...

Evonik Oil Additives invested in and will collaborate with Biosynthetic Technologies, which makes base oils synthesized from fatty acids found in vege ...

JX Nippon Oil & Energy announced a 50-50 joint venture with Tide Water Oil to manufacture and market lubricants in India.

Russian lube maker LLK International signed a lubricant supply deal with Mosenergo, Russias largest utility company, and introduced a key product for ...

United Arab Emirates-based oil products trader Gulf Petrochem Group is in the midst of an initiative to buy Indian lubricant supplier Sah Petroleums, ...