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The Verification of Lubricant Specifications began an investigation and issued a warning regarding engine oils that claim to meet the Stellantis FPW 9 ...

Career Moves

October 7, 2025

Who’s working where now?

Base oil demand has generally been positive heading into the fourth quarter, when trading traditionally slows. A number of arbitrages are open, some i ...

October Base Oil Report

September 26, 2025

Demand appears set to decline and inventories to grow, as Gabriela Wheeler explains.

The just-completed expansion of ExxonMobil’s base oil plant on Singapore’s Jurong Island makes it the largest such facility in the world – by fa ...

Mexican authorities have launched an investigation into customs offices nationwide over allegations that imported fuel was being misdeclared as lubric ...

ExxonMobil has completed the most recent expansion of its API Group II base oil plant on Singapore’s Jurong Island.

TRA published a Statement of Essential Facts concerning the ongoing investigation into product dumping.

Liqui Moly starts production in Thailand, a company first.

As the calendar passed the autumn equinox this week, marking when  the sun’s path moves from the Northern to the Southern Hemisphere, base oil mark ...

Ingevity has reached an agreement to sell its crude tall oil refinery in North Charleston, South Carolina, the latest in a series of restructuring ste ...

Fuchs has partnered with KCF Technologies to help manufacturers reduce downtime and operating costs by addressing lubrication-related failures in real ...

PSP Posts Jump in Profits

September 17, 2025

Despite a slight dip in revenues, Thai lubricant producer PSP Specialties reported a 37% jump in net profit for the first half of 2025, thanks mostly ...

Oil refiners in the United States produced just 27.2 million barrels of base oil during the first six months of this year, the third-lowest first half ...

Many players from the international lubricants industry are attending the Lube Expo get-together this week in Dusseldorf, Germany, and while that lead ...

An acquisition company made the winning U.S.$10 billion bid for the beleaguered ex-Venezuelan refiner Citgo.

Labor organizations and social activists staged a protest outside a lubricant company where three workers were killed and one was injured during maint ...

China’s expanding transportation infrastructure projects will boost demand for grease-consuming boring machines.

Briefly Noted

September 8, 2025

The European Lubricating Grease Institute has appointed a new association management company to administer its ongoing work on the technical, economic ...

The Labor Day holiday on Sept. 1 officially ushered in the end of the summer driving season in the United States and with it the conclusion of the pea ...