The EMEA base oil market has not seen any new demand spikes, and base oil production in Europe, after the third quarter, is estimated to be down aroun ...

U.S. base oil production in the first half of the year sank to its lowest level in more than two decades — the worst volume, in fact, since 1983 ...

If were really lucky, the 2009 U.S. hurricane season will be a dud, but this industry hasnt taken any chances. Hurricane preparation is a year-round e ...

Castrol last week launched a novel advertising campaign in the United Kingdom that used a national vehicle registration database and automatic cameras ...

Shell last week agreed to sell most of its downstream Greek activities, including its lubricant blending plant in Perama, 700 service stations, depots ...

Prista Oil Holding has joined the Sealub Alliance network of marine lubricant suppliers formed last year by Gulf Oil Marine, expanding the networks co ...

On Friday, a massive six-hour fire destroyed a lubricant facility in Ajman, U.A.E., belonging to Henkel International Lubricant Industry, according to ...

Two optimistic entrepreneurs have launched Forgelube, an independent manufacturer of process and forging lubricants, in Monterrey, Mexico. Oscar Loza ...

Player anticipation is on the rise heading into the start of the fourth quarter as both sides of the U.S. base oils market anxiously await how activit ...

This week has produced a mixed bag of pricing information. On the one hand the pressure is now truly on for producers to stop applying price hikes, an ...

The spot market enjoyed a busier week in terms of cargoes quoted, but the overhang of tonnage, especially in Europe and the United States, means that ...

While sales of private label or store brand auto products have grown, consumers of motor oils still perceive a quality difference between private labe ...

Eni SpA planned this week to resume normal operations at its refinery in Livorno, Italy, after employees agreed to end picketing that had disrupted th ...

Lubricant blenders in Nigeria have expressed mixed feelings over the recent directive by the Nigerian authorities that only registered lube blenders w ...

James L. Linden of General Motors, who joined the Fuels & Lubricants Department of General Motors Research in 1973 and has been a steady presence ...

Total Lubricants Canada has appointed M&R Environmental Ltd. as a distributor in British Columbia, a move Total said demonstrates its commitment ...

Myra Distributing will distribute Irving-branded lubricants in the New England region under an agreement with Irving Oil subsidiary Coastal Blending a ...

A more positive supply/demand picture emerged in the U. S. base oils market this week, as buyers stepped out with improved orders for a number of para ...

Is this a market which may have reached its high point, and may now be stabilizing? Or a brief break in the upward momentum? Its difficult to know whi ...

It has been another week of feeble activity in all areas. Europe and the United States have lots of empty ships available for prompt loading, and Asia ...