Sunoco has ceased making its Group I 300 solvent neutral base oil, as a result of operational changes that increased capacity at its plant in Tulsa, O ...

ORourke Petroleum Products and Solutions announced this month its acquisition of oil jobber Commercial Lubricants Dallas division. The deal comes 11 y ...

Most everyone agrees recycling lubricants is a good idea, but even those involved in such efforts dont always get along. Canadian recycler Newalta Cor ...

Iowas governor signed into law yesterday financial incentives that encourage electric utilities to use transformer oils made using soybeans. Proponent ...

Most of the Citgo operations that remain in Tulsa, Okla., are following the rest of the company to Houston. A lubricants laboratory will not, at least ...

Indias Bharat Petroleum Corp. on Saturday christened a new base oil plant at its refinery in Mumbai with capacity to make 3,500 barrels per day of Gro ...

Thanks to a leaky tank, one of ExxonMobils middle-viscosity Group I base oils is no longer available at its plant in Beaumont, Texas, market sources s ...

Lube marketer Atlantis International Inc. last week acquired the Automotive Chemicals and Lubricant division of Daks Industries LLC. Both businesses e ...

Cognis Deutschland GmbH announced yesterday a multi-phase project to expand its capacity to make synthetic esters at its factory in Cincinnati. The co ...

A year after dropping Texaco from its corporate identity, Chevron Corp. is renaming subsidiaries that operate under the Caltex moniker. Subsidiaries i ...

Availability of naphthenic base oils in the United States tightened in recent weeks, at least in part because of problems encountered by several produ ...

Fuchs Petrolub AG and Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP both posted healthy gains in first quarter earnings last week. Fuchs reported that broad ...

One U.K. auto insurer authorized nearly 163,000 claims in 2005 due to engine failures it attributed to motor oil issues, leaving motorists with an ave ...

CALGARY, Alberta – The biggest enemy for hydraulic fluids and hydraulic systems is contamination, contended Thelma Marougy, principal engineer f ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP announced last week that it has broadened the scope of a previously announced expansion planned for its Shrevep ...

Chevron Products Co. and ConocoPhilllips announced price increases of up to 10 percent for finished lubricants the past few weeks. Their actions could ...

San Joaquin Refining says it is close to resuming normal operations after weeks of maintenance work and unexpected delays in a turnaround of a unit at ...

Properly draining motor oil bottles can save 9.8 million gallons of oil a year in the United States alone, keeping the oil out of landfills and ground ...

Consulting firm Kline and Co. Inc. said it has formed a partnership with four firms in Central and Eastern Europe. The company said Kline KnowledgeNet ...

Chattem Chemicals Inc. said last week that it has purchased the Hamposyl line of surfactants from a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Co. An official said Ch ...