Observers of the international lubricant industry have Total penciled in for a 10,000-barrel-per-day upgrade at its base oil plant in Gonfreville, Fra ...

Pilot Chemical Co. announced last week that it plans to relocate corporate offices from three U.S. locations to Cincinnati, site of its primary manufa ...

Nearly half – 47 percent – of the lubricating oil sold in the United Kingdom and Western Canada is collected for reuse or rerefining, and ...

Huntsman Corp. has announced plans to expand its capacity to produce ethylene carbonate at its manufacturing facility in Conroe, Texas. Ethylene carbo ...

ExxonMobil announced Friday that it is raising posted prices for paraffinic base oils in the United States by 10 cents per gallon today. Three other s ...

From the day it’s refined until it’s blended into a finished lubricant, base oil exists in an unhappy limbo state, parked in the refinery& ...

Coping with rising raw material costs loomed large in second quarter performance for several companies in the lubricant industry. Lubrizols lube addit ...

Parc Technical Services Inc. was acquiredby Intertek Caleb Brett, a leading provider of laboratory services to the oil and refining industries, the co ...

Price increases continued to buffet the U.S. base oil market the past week, this time on the naphthenic side of the industry. Several pale oil supplie ...

Valvoline’s operating income for the quarter ended June 30 was $26 million, down 13 percent from the year-ago quarter, attributed to lower lubri ...

A metalworking fluid system with no sump, no splash, no water, no biocides — maybe even no additives? Researchers at the University of Michigan ...

Dial Oil Co., Farmington, N.M., a gasoline, diesel and lubricant distributor, was acquired this month by Giant Industries, Inc. Dial, a supplier of Co ...

Chevron, Sunoco and SK this week concluded the latest round of price hikes for paraffinic base oils. Chevron increased the posted price of its Group I ...

Cognis Deutschland GmbH announced Wednesday that it has agreed to expand its oleochemicals joint venture with a Malaysian plantation owner by contribu ...

Lubrizol Corp.s fortunes have taken a turn for the better, spurred in part by customers pre-buying and, one analyst speculated, by an accident at a co ...

Dunlap, Mellor & Co. of Aston, Pa., a distributor of ConocoPhillips industrial lubricants, last week announced its acquisition of Fritch Lubrican ...

Chemfil Canada Ltd. announced last week that it is the new provider of chemical management services at the Chrysler Groups Windsor and Brampton, Ont., ...

ExxonMobil kicked off a new round of increases in posted prices for paraffinic base oils last week when it announced 7 to 12 cent-per-gallon increases ...

The lubricants industry is used to the idea of recycling used oil to make base oil. But making base oils from plastics? A team of researchers from Che ...

How much plant or animal oil will it take to comply with a U.S. law aimed at spurring demand for biobased lubricants and other products? Perhaps as li ...