Mergers & Acquisitions

PMC Group completed the acquisition of Dow Chemicals global methyl tin stabilizers and solid lubricants business, including a manufacturing facility i ...

Gazprom to Oil Chinese Cars

January 30, 2013

Russian lube marketer Gazprom Neft-SM forged a technical and marketing partnership with the Chinese automaker Lifan, the energy giant said last week. ...

Raaj Unocal Lubricants will manufacture and market co-branded engine oils exclusively for Hindustan Motors vehicles under an agreement signed in Kolka ...

ORourke Petroleum recently acquired Penco Oil in East Texas. Both companies are Shell lubricants distributors. Mush Khan, president and chief operati ...

Rosneft Starts 2013 Off Big

January 16, 2013

Rosneft, one of Russia’s biggest lubricants marketers, increased its supply of automotive lubricants in 2012 and recently introduced two key pro ...

Martin Midstream Partners L.P. acquired lubricants distributor Talens Marine and Fuel for $47.4 million. Martin purchased Jennings, La.-based Talens ...

Jergens Industrial Supply acquired John M. Allen Co. for an undisclosed amount. Both companies distribute metalworking fluids. By bringing together J ...

Equity Firm Picks Up J.A.M.

December 27, 2012

Ridgemont Equity Partners last week acquired J.A.M. Distributing Co., which supplies ExxonMobil, Phillips 66 and other base stocks and lubricants. Fin ...

Aurora Bags DuBois

December 27, 2012

Aurora Capital Group acquired DuBois Chemicals, a specialty chemicals company whose products include industrial lubricants and metalworking fluids. Th ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Brenntag Picks Petrolube

June 13, 2012

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

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 ...

Immediate opportunity as well as long term corporate strategy prompted Wichita, Kan.-based Universal Lubricants to purchase a used oil collection busi ...

Contract blender and packager Lubricating Specialties Co. has acquired Wynn Oil Co.s former blending plant in Azusa, Calif., for an undisclosed amount ...