With the turmoil in the Middle East worsening this week after Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacked Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh airport, killing 12 people an ...

The “on-again, off-again” United States-Iran war, characterized by bursts of intense military strikes followed by brief ceasefires and failed nego ...

Interflon received NSF 538 MOAH-free certification for more than 30 H1 and 3H food-grade lubricants, adding to its NSF 537 PFAS-free certification obt ...

Base oil business activity was fairly subdued and prices were generally stable, but some players wondered whether this might be calm before the storm. ...

Tongyi Petrochemical started trial production at a lubricant blending plant in Lagos, Nigeria, helping the Chinese company expand its manufacturing an ...

Egypt’s Alexandria Mineral Oils Co. completed a production trial at the end of September for an API Group II base oil unit, as it expands its base o ...

Malaysian energy giant Petronas is likely to restart its API Group III base oils unit at its Melaka refinery, an industry report said. A restart would ...

The Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association said the American Petroleum Institute’s latest extension to emergency provisional licensing show ...

The world may — or may not — soon have a regulation prodding the shipping industry to use cleaner fuels. Depending on the alternatives it chooses, ...

Lube producers looking for alternative Group III sources found that other suppliers were already sold out. Rerefined base oils might have offered a ne ...

Fuchs’ growth through acquisition and organic expansion spans 95 years.

ABN Resource’s 2026 lubricant industry talent report reveals mixed feelings for workers: high job satisfaction but openness to new opportunities; go ...

Lubrizol Expands Singapore Innovation Center Lubrizol is expanding its Southeast Asia Innovation Center in Singapore with new synthesis, analytical ...

Over the past few months European, Middle Eastern and African base oil markets have witnessed many innovative actions to facilitate continued trading ...

With the conflict in the Middle East stretching supply chains and causing significant disruption and uncertainty across the lubricants market, working ...

The base oil crisis will lead lubricant manufacturers to work in a variety of ways to make supply chains more resilient. Their steps generally will in ...

The Strait of Hormuz remained mostly closed to ship traffic, continuing to cause upheaval to the base oil market. Gabriela Wheeler likens the situatio ...

A developed lube market at the end of long supply chains is at the whim of events sometimes on the other side of the world. Rerefining and EVs could o ...

Spot base oil prices underwent few fluctuations during the week on muted trading as participants seemed to take a pause to assess the market situation ...