Average daily car counts rose at the typical U.S. fast lube in the past year, after several years of decline, while the average ticket for a standard ...

Regulatory agencies in the state of California have contracted a study to assess the amount of air pollution generated by motor oils through non-tailp ...

ConocoPhillips said yesterday that it will reduce posted prices on light- and mid-grade Group II base oils between 10 cents and 12 cents per gallon, e ...

ExxonMobil Corp. said last week that it has agreed to sell stakes in fuel and lubricants businesses in several equatorial African nations to a subsidi ...

A Chicago-area start-up announced plans last week to become a collector and rerefiner of used lubricating oil and a marketer of lubricants made from t ...

Russian oil giant OAO LukOil said last week that it has completed the first phase of an eight-year project to double the capacity of its largest lubri ...

Shells lubricant business in the United States said yesterday that it has exercised an option to sell a lubricant blending plant in North Charleston, ...

The United States lags well behind many European countries in the recycling of used lubricants, and the U.S. rate is unlikely to rise much without gov ...

Group III importer SK said last week that it will close its base oil terminal in Los Angeles, due to insufficient demand. Elsewhere in the market, Mot ...

Oil jobber Tri-Country Petroleum recently purchased Thomas Oil Co., a lubricant distributor based in Wood River, Ill. Both companies carry ExxonMobil ...

Lubrizol Corp. said Monday that it has opened a laboratory in Shanghai to provide technical assistance to industrial lubricant additive customers. The ...

Citing a desire to carve out its share of Indias steadily growing lubricant market, Japanese refiner Idemitsu Kosan announced last week that it has fo ...

Lubricant sales volumes in the United States fell 4 percent during the second quarter, compared to the same period of 2005, according to data released ...

The worlds largest producer of white oils is back to selling its products itself. Petro-Canada Lubricants said last month that it is now directly sell ...

Group I base suppliers in the United States are lowering prices this week, following markdowns by Group II suppliers the past two weeks. Collectively, ...

Group II producers Chevron and Motiva both lowered posted base oil prices in the United States, but their changes stirred markedly different reactions ...

Prices for chemicals used in lubricants continue to rise despite a retreat in crude oil and fuel costs. Albemarle Corp., Dow Chemical Co., BASF and Ch ...

A U.S. investment firm has bought a 25-percent stake in Bulgarian lubricant marketer Prista Oil AD. The transaction comes three months after Chevron G ...

Quaker Chemical has decided to consolidate blending in Detroit and Middletown, Ohio, and is leaning toward expanding the latter to make it the company ...

U.S. lubricating grease producers could soon slam into new barriers to delivering products to customers in Europe, as wide-sweeping chemical safety le ...