Choosing trade group management experience over knowledge of its industry, the Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association announced Monday that i ...

General Motors representatives confirmed yesterday that American and Japanese car companies have postponed their deadline for the next motor oil upgra ...

During an uneventful week for the U.S. base oil market, buyers and sellers were left to mull a reported delay in the next passenger car motor oil upgr ...

Three standards organizations announced last week that they will cooperate to develop common e-commerce protocols for the petroleum, chemicals and agr ...

Milacron Inc. announced yesterday that it is selling most of what remains of its metalworking tool business to focus on production of plastics process ...

American and Japanese automakers have decided to delay adoption of GF-4, the next passenger car motor oil upgrade, according to the Independent Lubric ...

The U.S. base oil market was quiet this past week, and sources say it may remain so in coming weeks. Base oil prices have been especially active the p ...

Phillips Petroleum Co. has made its stable of motor oils a little less crowded by consolidating the Kendall brands into a single product line. Officia ...

Sinopec, Chinas second-biggest oil company, has integrated its lubricants operations to cope with foreign competition that is expected to stiffen as b ...

More than one out of five API-licensed engine oils was off-spec last year, according to the American Petroleum Institutes 2001 worldwide engine oil qu ...

It looked like Follow the Leader once again in the U.S. base oil market, as suppliers completed a round of price hikes begun two weeks ago by ExxonMob ...

Phillips Petroleum Co. said that Tom Liberti has been named to head the lubricants business that would be created by its proposed merger with Conoco. ...

Agricultural cooperative Farmland Industries filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Friday. The Kansas City, Mo., company said it will sell non-co ...

Fuchs Petrolub AG reported last week that its first quarter net income increased 35.3 percent, due primarily to consolidation of its ownership of a fo ...

Diesel engine oil formulators are by now well accustomed to revising their recipes. They do so on a regular basis, not only as a matter of product imp ...

Crude oil and base stock prices went their separate ways this past week, with crude dropping sharply while paraffinic base oil postings rose for the f ...

HOUSTON — Manufacturers of fire-resistant industrial fluids have a year and a month to receive Factory Mutual Research Corp. approval of their p ...

HOUSTON — With its newly established formal standing, the first Latin American affiliate of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineer ...

HOUSTON — With the single exception of backward compatibility, automakers have basically completed the “needs” statement defining wh ...

Base oil prices are unchanged from last week. Historic U.S. posted base oil prices and WTI and Brent crude spot prices are available for purchase in E ...