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SK Enmove and HF Sinclair’s Lubricants & Specialties segment have signed long-term agreements covering the supply and distribution of API Gr ...

Chevron Products Company will expand its North American base oils distribution network through new agreements with HF Sinclair and Renkert Oil, broade ...

With the Iran war entering its sixth month, Donald Trump has again backed off from weekend attacks on Iran, which he had warned would be “fearsom ...

The exchange of military attacks between the United States and Iran was paused, at least temporarily, as U.S. president Donald Trump — urged by Saud ...

HF Sinclair Corp. plans to separate its Lubricants & Specialties business into an independent publicly traded company while retiring its base oil ...

Refineries along the Gulf of Mexico were largely unaffected by Tropical Storm Bertha, which first made landfall in southern Louisiana on Wednesday, Ju ...

Market attention partly turned to events happening closer to home than the Middle East conflict this week, as a tropical storm threatened to disrupt r ...

India’s specialty-oil producers showed strong momentum in the first half of 2026, as healthy demand, improved pricing and diversified product portfo ...

The Strait of Hormuz crisis highlighted the value of used oil as a domestic resource, prompting countries such as Japan and Australia to rely more hea ...

Briefly Noted

July 28, 2026

More Growth for Fuchs Fuchs China opened a new specialty lubricant plant in Wujiang, Suzhou, on July 16, expanding its local production capacity fo ...

United States President Donald Trump ordered a cessation over the weekend to the bombing program going on against Iran the past couple weeks. Counter ...

German lubricant maker Fuchs SE increased its profit forecast for 2026 after reporting stronger-than-expected preliminary results for the first half o ...

The Strait of Hormuz remained effectively closed despite a pause in hostilities between the United States and Iran. Further disruptions could be trigg ...

New passenger car registrations in the European Union rose 5.7% in the first half of 2026 as demand for electrified vehicles continued to grow despite ...

Intensifying hostilities between the United States and Iran and the renewed closing of the Strait of Hormuz continued to disrupt crude oil and refined ...

In Memoriam George Gill

July 22, 2026

LNG Publishing Co. is deeply saddened to report the recent death of former editor George Gill. He died at his home in Springfield, Virginia, at the ag ...

China’s revised national standard for transformer oil, GB 2536-2025, Unused Mineral Insulating Oil for Electrical Fluids, Transformers, and Switchge ...

Penthol, the U.S. distributor of Adnoc’s API Group III+ base oil, has declared force majeure on contract commitments after U.S. attacks on Iran ...

Chinese base oil producers are increasingly looking to export material as expanding domestic production reduces the country’s reliance on import ...

The past week saw a ramp up of strikes and counterstrikes between the United States and Iran, primarily directed toward the opening of the Strait of H ...