Valvoline Lubricants advertising in recent months, both in online and print media, claiming its SynPower SAE 5W-30 motor oil offers four times better ...

Festive times appear to be upon us, but in the base oil market it appears that there is little to be festive about. Producers are taking to embracing ...

Flint Hills Resources stunned the market with news that it lowered its full line-up of API Group II base stock postings by 40 cents per gallon on Mond ...

Operatives from the Philippines Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group and the Northern Police District Office confiscated about P50 million (U.S. $1 milli ...

Sea-Land Chemical Co. has signed an agreement to distribute Polartechs Actrachem brand of specialty chemical additives in the Unites States, including ...

NEW YORK – Premium quality lubricants are gaining share in Latin Americas 3 million metric ton market, but base stock supply is not keeping up, ...

U.S. lubricant sales volumes in the third quarter of this year fell 10 percent compared to the same period in 2007, according to the latest sales data ...

With prices for crude and base oil dropping, distributors of finished lubricants have been asking, Whens the other shoe going to drop for us? The time ...

With the holiday season rapidly approaching, and conference time in New York, this week has been somewhat short but has still yielded some dramatic do ...

This week welcomed a more-or-less quiet scenario in the U.S. Base oils market. This relatively inactive spell follows a feverous few days ahead of the ...

Nissan Motor Co. and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency have jointly developed a neutron imaging system that they claim has provided the worlds first prec ...

HOUSTON – U.S. vehicle production is dropping, miles driven are declining, and 2008 motor oil consumption will likely slide more than 5 percent ...

Average reported salaries for laboratory, R&D and technical managers at U.S. lubricant manufacturing companies are 6 percent higher than they wer ...

Delfin Group USA will invest $55 million in the 41.7 acre North Charleston, S.C., industrial site that it acquired for $20 million in late 2007 from C ...

In a David-vs.-Goliath scenario, a jury last month found that ExxonMobil conspired to drive South Carolina petroleum jobber Bristow Oil out of the Mob ...

If last week was sitting on the fence, then this week in Europe has seen the stand-off between base oil producers and receivers grow to a new level. F ...

The U.S. base oil market was abuzz this week with a multitude of price changes covering API Group I, II/II+ and III paraffinic base stocks and naphthe ...

BP Castrol last week said it plans to close its lubricant blending plant in Ellesmere Port, England, in fall of 2009. The site – the companys la ...

HOUSTON – In light of current market conditions, an Ergon executive said, future naphthenic demand is a larger unknown than usual, but despite t ...

A disagreement over sludge protection claims in Castrol GTX motor oil advertising led to a war of words between BPAmerica and Shell subsidiary Pennzoi ...