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Third Coast Chemicals recently completed a $3 million expansion to its brake fluid production facility in Pearland, Texas, that more than doubles its ...

ConocoPhillips, SK E&P and Chevron announced price hikes this week ranging between 7 cents per gallon to 15 cents/gal, joining the list of other p ...

Chemcentral Corp. has agreed to pay a total of more than $470,000 to the Environmental Protection Agency and to the Occupational Safety and Health Adm ...

Base oil production in the United States slipped 2.5 percent from 2006 to 2007, according to data released Monday by the Department of Energys Energy ...

For the third time since 2005, Chemtura is shuffling executives and responsibilities in its Petroleum Additives segment. The appointments are said to ...

Oleon has started a new distillation tower at its fatty acid plant in Ertvelde, Belgium, a year after a fire destroyed part of the plants main distill ...

Lubricant supplier Quaker Chemical reported strong results for the quarter ending Dec. 31, and for the year 2007. Consoshocken, Pa.-based Quaker Chemi ...

BASF announced an increase in prices for two types of carboxylic acids that are used as intermediates in lubricants and solvents, while Kraton Polymer ...

The relentless climb in crude oil and transportation fuel costs opened the door for U.S. base oil producers to seek higher posted prices. Within the p ...

Chevron plans to build a world-class API Group II/Group III base oil plant in the Gulf Coast region, industry sources confirmed to Lube Report. The ne ...

LONDON – Russian oil giant Lukoil is investing $270 million to upgrade its base oils, and has already begun two initiatives to produce bright st ...

Lubricant supplier Fuchs Petrolub reported strong earnings for 2007, and Milacrons Industrial Fluids segment posted positive results for the quarter a ...

Shell Oil Co.s Pennzoil, one of Americas leading brands, kicked off a new marketing campaign during this months Daytona 500 in an effort to secure a l ...

U.S. Oil Launches AutoForce

February 27, 2008

U.S. Oil Co. has bundled three recent acquisitions into U.S. AutoForce, a new organization to market automotive lubricants, tires and parts in 14 uppe ...

Ciba last week announced a global increase in prices for lubricant additives, and Oxiteno yesterday said it would raise prices on surfactants in the U ...

U.S. Base Oil Price Report

February 27, 2008

Nynas USA Inc. said that it plans to raise all naphthenic base oil prices next weekby 15 to 20 cents per gallon due to continued rising fuel and recor ...

Hyrax Oil Sd Bhd, a manufacturer of transformer oil and other lubricants in Malaysia, recently signed a three-year, $30 million distributorship agreem ...

Anyone seeking to buy or or sell stock in Industrial Enterprises of America today on the Nasdaq exchange will not find it. Thats because Nasdaq has i ...

Sea-Land Chemical Co. has expanded its distribution network for Air Products and Chemicals Inc.s surfactants for metalworking fluid markets as well as ...

Lanxess Likes Slovakia

February 20, 2008

Germanys Lanxess AG has launched its own distribution company for central and eastern Europe in Slovakia, hoping to capture more of the market for spe ...