Australias lubricant demand may be flat to shrinking, but foreign companies continue to increase the volume that they import to the AU $1.7 billion ma ...

Balmer Lawrie & Co.s greases and lubricants segment moved from the red to black with its performance for the quarter ended June 30, while Savita Oil T ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners and Milacrons Industrial Fluids segment reported improved profits, while Clean Harbors oil rerefining and recyclin ...

Cost increases at MJL Bangladesh Ltd. caused a 36 percent drop in profits for the first half of 2015 despite higher sales, while Indias GP Petroleums ...

Shell has agreed to sell its 75 percent stake in Tongyi Lubricants to United States-based equity firm The Carlyle Group and Tongyis founder and joint ...

Fuchs Petrolub and Valvoline each posted strong earnings for the quarter ending in June, while profits were down for Afton Chemical and Quaker Chemica ...

Quaker Chemical Corp. acquired Spanish industrial lubes and grease company Verkol last week for $32.4 million. Quaker, of Conshohocken, Pa., said that ...

Fuchs Petrolub acquired Sweden-based Statoil Fuel & Retail Lubricants AB for an undisclosed amount. SFR Lubricants is part of Couche-Tard Luxembou ...

Castrol India filed record profit in its second quarter, up 49 percent at Rs 281.8 crores (U.S. $44 million) compared to 188.8 crores in the three mon ...

Japanese petroleum major Idemitsu Kosan will purchase Royal Dutch Shells 33.2 percent stake in Showa Shell Sekiyu KK with an aim of merging with SSSKK ...

S-Oils base oils business and BPs lubricants business each reported higher second quarter profits, and SK Lubricants profit was down, all compared to ...

The American Chemistry Council launched a U.S. specialty chemical market volume index designed to provide a timely source of market trends for 28 mark ...

Despite the pain of several closures, the world saw a net gain of 35,000 barrels per day of base oil manufacturing capacity over the past year. Global ...

Liquid natural gas is an increasingly popular source of fuel in China for long-haul buses and trucks, and this means they will require different types ...

SK Innovation on Thursday retracted its application to conduct an initial public stock offering for its base oil and lubricants subsidiary, SK Lubrica ...

BASF and Malaysias Petronas Chemicals Group Bhd. will build Southeast Asias first highly reactive polyisobutene plant in Malaysia, the companies annou ...

S-Oils base oil business posted higher second quarter operating income thanks to healthy Group III prices, but SK Lubricants had a lower operating pro ...

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North Americas finished lubricants demand will change little, with 0.3 percent compounded annual growth from 2014 to about 2.8 billion gallons in 2019 ...

United Arab Emirates-based Gulf Petrochem expanded into East Africa with its recent acquisition of Essar Petroleum East Africa Ltd., which was renamed ...