Marathon Petroleum Co. yesterday began notifying customers of its plans to exit the base oil, wax and aromatic extracts markets, and to eventually shu ...

ConocoPhillips confirmed during the past week that it pushed up its posted prices by 10 to 20 cents per gallon for its Group II neutrals. The company ...

Haycock Petroleum Co. on Friday announced the acquisition of lubricants marketer Bowen Petroleum Inc. and an affiliated company, Bowen Trucking. Terms ...

Grindrod Ltd. on Monday announced the acquisition of the remaining 50 percent of Cockett Marine Oil that it did not yet own. Terms of the transaction ...

Junell Corp. – doing business as Advanced Lubrication Specialties – recently received a $397,660 grant for track rehabilitation and constr ...

WD-40 Co. on April 9 reported that its net sales for the second quarter, ending Feb. 29, totaled $78.9 million, down 0.5 percent from 2007s second qua ...

Total and Compaa Espaola de Petrleos, S.A. (Cepsa) last week announced plans to merge their petroleum product marketing operations in Portugal to crea ...

ILMA has completed the first round of testing of its members passenger car motor oils, and found that two of 19 random samples failed to meet performa ...

Flint Hills Resources announced that it raised all its postings for API Group II base oils this week, upping the prices by 10 to 17 cents per gallon o ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently reached a $20,000 settlement with Pacific Marine and Industrial Corp., for used oil and hazardous wa ...

A lubricant coating using nanotechnology from the research arm of ApNano Materials Inc., an Israeli manufacturer of solid lubricants, has been develop ...

Pilot Chemical recently acquired all the product lines of Intertrade Holdings Inc., including sulfonates and organic acids that complement Pilots chem ...

Including lower capacities for two ExxonMobil base oil plants, base oil capacity in the United States stood at 218,900 barrels per day as of Jan. 1, d ...

Citgo Petroleum Corp. in an April 2 letter informed customers that it plans to reduce production at its Lake Charles, La., lubricants and wax refinery ...

Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. has awarded Larsen & Toubro a 5.76 billion rupee (U.S. $144.4 million) contract to upgrade the refiner’s exi ...

Materia, a catalyst technology company, last week announced the creation of Elevance Renewable Sciences, with more than $40 million in independent fin ...

Fires stemming from engine oil leaks, in some cases leading to injuries or damage to structures, have led to a General Motors recall of more than 200, ...

The U.S. Department of Justice last week filed charges against Lubrizol Corp. ex-employee Kyung J. Kim of Broadview Heights, Ohio, accusing him of con ...

Colonial Specialty Chemical has leased a 90,000-square-foot warehouse in Detroit to reach customers in the Midwest, a growing market for the specialty ...

Sasol-Huntsman will increase its maleic anhydride production capacity in Germany by 75 percent, to 105,000 metric tons per year, by early 2011. Sasol- ...