The EMEA marketplace experienced a somewhat indifferent week, with some producers talking the market upwards re prices, but at the same time buyers co ...

Europe endured a week that was even thinner than the previous one. Asia managed to stay fairly buoyant, while the Americas saw reasonable demand but a ...

A U.S. distributor was bilked out of motor oils valued at nearly $100,000, shipped to a Canadian warehouse, when the Montreal buyer declined to pay an ...

Royal Dutch Shell said Friday that its efforts to sell two German refineries and a third in the United Kingdom have narrowed and that it is now negoti ...

Lubrizols additives segment and Ashlands Valvoline division reported lower sales but hefty increases in operating income for the quarter ending Sept. ...

Saudi Arabias Petromin Corp. has announced a new 100 million riyals (U.S. $26.7 million), 250,000 metric tons per year capacity blending plant, which ...

DUBAI – Despite international trade sanctions on Iran, the lubes market in the country remains substantial and ripe for development. With growt ...

With crude and feedstock values hovering at high levels, most market players anticipated a barrage of paraffinic price increases in the U.S. market th ...

A muted base oil market this week, the EMEA region expected to witness a raft of increased base oil prices, but this does not appear to have occurred. ...

Contractual business from the Americas is beginning to increase for the balance of the year, although spot volumes remain depressed. Europe is totally ...

Dual clutch transmissions could account for up to 10 percent of global automotive demand by 2015, so lube manufacturers need to prepare for this comin ...

BASF on Friday declared force majeure at its 115,000 metric tons per year maleic anhydride facility in Feluy, Belgium, in response to a strike by work ...

ISTANBUL – Automakers will need to make significant improvements in fuel economy in coming years. Lubricants can make a small but valuable contr ...

Diverse companies reported diverse results, with additives manufacturer Afton Chemical and lubricant supplier Quaker Chemical each reporting an increa ...

A 23 cubic meter (about 6,000 gallon) container of industrial lube oils exploded Sunday afternoon at an SATI container depot in Umbogintwini, South Af ...

High crude values prompted a number of U.S. base oil producers to issue price hike announcements this week. Increases of 25 cents per gallon to 30 cen ...

After the last ten days of positive crude and product rises, the traditional base oil stand-off appears to be in progress with loud shouts of increasi ...

LyondellBasells planned switch of its naphthenic base oil and white oil marketing contracts to Calumet wont come without a courtroom battle, as Nynas ...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Adding grease to your product lines can be a profitable move for a lubricant marketer, but select your supplier carefully. S ...

Lubrizol has relocated its metalworking laboratory and testing operations from Spartanburg, S.C., to the technical center at its Wickliffe, Ohio headq ...