BP agreed to sell its aviation turbine oil business assets to Eastman Chemical Co. for an undisclosed amount, both companies announced yesterday. The ...

Sales of counterfeit engine oils are becoming a more attractive crime in Asia as the region shifts toward higher quality lubes, industry insiders say.

An Indian court has scheduled a meeting Thursday for stockholders of Gulf Oil Corp. Ltd. to consider managements proposal to spin off its lubricant bu ...

BP and Caltex will sever their Australian joint venture, the Australasian Lubricant Manufacturing Co., which supplies nearly half of the country's lub ...

Lubricating Specialties Co. President Sydney Thwaites and Vintage Capital Partners II, L.P. have acquired full ownership of the independent blender, a ...

A booming automotive market has pulled Brazils lubricant demand to sixth largest in the world, according to an IHS report published late last year. Br ...

Saudi Aramco has agreed to buy most of Hanjin Energys stake in S-Oil, according to several reports, giving the Saudi oil company a controlling share i ...

Gulf Oil Ltd. said late last year that it has entered three more markets - Kazakhstan, South Sudan and Croatia. The Indian lubricants and fuels suppli ...

Led by healthy appetites in Asia, global demand for general industrial oils is projected to grow from 6.5 million metric tons in 2011 to 7.2 million t ...

2015 Industry Calendar: February through May

WD-40s net income totaled $11.5 million for the quarter ending Nov. 30, up 5 percent from the year-earlier period, while net sales were up slightly at ...

Shell and Hyundai extended their Russian agreement for lubricants supply, training, technical support and marketing events to a five-year period. Unde ...

Investment giant Berkshire Hathaway agreed to divest around $1.4 billion of Phillips 66 common stock in exchange for Phillips 66s flow improver segmen ...

World champion blending plants arent necessarily newer or bigger than the competition. Its better management that makes them more efficient, more prod ...

The global market for small-engine lubricants divides into two main camps, with Asia on one side and Europe and North America on the other. Engine pro ...

Japan's economy has been expanding, which should mean opportunity in one of the world's largest lubricant markets. Even so, Japanese lube marketers ar ...

Jack Goodhue reminds that learning doesnt stop at the school door.

BRUSSELS-The $1 trillion economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China all have different development drivers and potential for growth, but consultancy ...

The global base oil picture is more complicated than saying API Group I capacity will shut down, says consultant Amy Claxton. Group I plants will keep ...

Global energy demand in 2040 will be 35 percent higher than in 2010, with oil, gas and coal accounting for 77 percent of total energy consumption and ...