A California consumer affairs agency has filed a complaint to revoke or suspend permits for 76 shops in the EZ Lube quick lube chain, alleging that th ...

Three major oil companies eased off recently from previously announced price hikes for finished lubricants, with two postponing markups and the other ...

ConocoPhillips announced yesterday that it will lower posted prices for Group II base oils in the United States by between 16 cents and 22 cents per g ...

Texas Petrochemicals Inc. on Monday announced plans for an expansion that will more than double its capacity to make polyisobutylene at its plant in H ...

Naphthenic base oil supplier Cross Refining and Marketing Inc. said Friday that it has been acquired by Martin Resource Management Corp., a transporte ...

Diversified container maker Greif Inc. purchased lubricant compounder and packager Delta Petroleum Co. last week from an investment firm. The transact ...

Lubrizol Corp. said Monday that production of phenate detergents at its lubricant additive plant in LeHavre, France, has been temporarily halted by di ...

In a major shake-up of the worlds second-largest lubricant market, Royal Dutch Shell plc announced Friday that one of its subsidiarieshas acquired a 7 ...

Posted prices for paraffinic base oils in the United States were unchanged again this week, but crude oil costs continued to drop. The price of crude ...

Miami oil jobber BV Oil Co. last month purchased Grimsley Oil Co., of Wauchula, Fla., to further its expansion into the western part of the state. The ...

Malaysias Petronas held a groundbreaking ceremony today commemorating the start of construction of a base oil plant at its refinery in Melaka, Malaysi ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates- An official with Sepahan Oil Co. said last week that the Iranian refiner is conducting a feasibility study to consider ad ...

Conventional wisdom has it that growth in the worldwide lubricants market will be 2 percent or less over the next five years, observes Saurabh Lawate. ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates- The Middle East is a region of 186 million people spread across 13 countries, but two nations – the United Arab Emi ...

Rapidly growing SPI Petroleum LLC announced yesterday that it has bought two large fuel and lubricant distributors – the parent company of Ranch ...

LubesnGreases Magazines exclusive 2006 Global Guide to Nonconventional Base Stocks is now available, listing nearly 180 manufacturing plants where the ...

Buyers and sellers agree that the U.S. base oil market is quiet this week, but with both crude and fuel prices sinking, some buyers are pressing for l ...

Delphi Corp. is promoting a new diesel engine oil condition sensor for commercial vehicles that will alert the operator when oil quality falls outside ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed another clutch of biobased lubricants to receive preference by all federal agencies when making purcha ...

BRADFORD, Pa. – American Refining Group broke ground Friday on a new hydrogenation unit during the celebration of the base oil and fuel refinery ...