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Industrial lubricants suppliers were challenged in 2005 by steep increases in costs of raw materials, according to financial results that two companie ...

LONDON – LLK-International, the company created Jan. 1 to produce and market LukOils lubricants, offered a look at Russias 1.9 million metric to ...

The grande dame of transmission plants – General Motors Toledo, Ohio, facility – is getting a massive facelift for her 90th birthday. GM s ...

Perhaps unrealistically, some lubricant blenders have looked to the looming expansion of Motivas Port Arthur, Texas, base oil plant as a partial solut ...

Base Oil Price Report

February 22, 2006

The U.S. base oil market apparently will have to wait another week for the massive expansion of Motivas Port Arthur, Texas, plant. Industry sources sa ...

Fallbrook Technologies Inc. is trying to revolutionize the transmission industry, and Valvoline has signed on to help develop the fluids it needs to d ...

LONDON – The lubricant additive market was tight last year, and now its even tighter, Lubrizols Dan Sheets told the ICIS World Base Oils Confere ...

Projecting growing European demand for Group II base stocks, Shell announced last week that it will supply significant volumes of Motiva products in E ...

Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. announced last week that it plans to build a Group III base oil plant at its refinery in southwest India. T ...

Dark Days for White Oils

February 22, 2006

Much of the North American lubricant industry is laboring under a barrage of disruptions that have batteredbase oil supply in recent months, but the w ...

Base Oil Price Report

February 15, 2006

Market sources say ExxonMobil has decided to close its West Coast base oil terminal in San Pedro, Calif., a move that removes one of the few remaining ...

Infineum Enlists Chemcentral

February 15, 2006

Chemcentral Corp. said last week that it has reach an agreement to become Infineums exclusive distributor of branded additives for the Atlantic and Gu ...

Total announced last week that it has begun selling Elf synthetic motor oils in the United States, an initiative aimed at helping the French energy gi ...

A fire broke out last week at ExxonMobils refinery in Port Jerome, France, curtailing production of some grades of base oil. Outside sources said the ...

Specialty chemical supplier ICI Group announced last week that it will try to sell oleochemical subsidiary Uniqema in order to focus on other prioriti ...

Chevron imposed allocations on base oil sales in the United States yesterday, a move that reflected a worsening supply scene.Additionalsymptoms arose ...

Base Oil Price Report

February 8, 2006

Valero, SK and Chevron raised posted base oil prices the past week, rounding out a monster of a hike begun last month. Valero raised its price Monday, ...

Nebraska-based Warren Distribution Inc. last month announced plans to build its third lubricant blending plant – a 250,000-square-foot facility ...

Fourth-quarter revenue reached $1 billion at Lubrizol Corp., setting a record for the Wickliffe, Ohio, based specialty chemical company. The final qua ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP declared its initial public stock offering a success last week. Now the company is moving forward with its next ...