An already-struggling U.S. base oil industry absorbed yet another blow last week when an explosion halted production at the Excel Paralubes joint vent ...

The U.S. base oil market appears to be undergoing its first general price hike in three months, and suppliersmay be making up for lost time. During th ...

Uniqema on Monday announced the start-up of new production lines of specialty surfactants at its factory in New Castle, Del. The lines are part of a b ...

Financial results posted the past week spotlighted diverging fortunes for two of the lubricant industrys major players. Valvolines earnings for the th ...

OSTFILDERN, Germany – The worlds appetite for lubricants has begun growing again, but only because Asias emerging markets are far outstripping t ...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas – With their eyes on a projected launch date of 2009, the motor oil and auto industries are sharpening their efforts to defin ...

St. Louis-based Harbour Group said yesterday that it has purchased Alemite LLC, a manufacturer of lubrication and fluid handling equipment and systems ...

Motiva imposed hefty price hikes on its base oils today, less than three weeks before the scheduled unveiling of its massive Port Arthur, Texas, expan ...

Dow Chemical Co. announced last week the lifting of a force majeure declaration imposedon ethyleneamines more than fourmonths ago in the wake of Hurri ...

A Jan. 13 fire has forced Nynas to temporarily scale back production at its naphthenic base oil plant in Nynashamn, Sweden, the company said yesterday ...

The owner of Pitt Penn Oil Co. agreed last week to sell the Pennsylvania compounder blender to Industrial Enterprises of America Inc., a year-old hold ...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Time is running out to join in the auto industrys initiative to fund the development of a new fuel economy test for engine ...

Petro-Canada said this week that the Group II train of its Mississauga, Ontario, base oil plant is not expected to resume production until early March ...

The new API CJ-4 diesel engine oil specification is barreling towards approval tomorrow by ASTMs Heavy Duty Engine Oil Classification Panel at a speci ...

The first price increase of 2006 will apparently take place on the naphthenic side of the U.S. base oil market. Nynas USA Inc. said yesterday that it ...

Ultra Additives and a Texas-based fuels and lubes marketer announced the appointment of new distributors last week. Ultra, a Bloomfield, New Jersey-ba ...

Chevron Oronite Co. announced last week that it has named Andy Tugendhat vice president of sales. The additive company described Tugendhat as a key fi ...

U.S. lubricant sales volumes in the third quarter of 2005 fell 3.4 percent compared to the same period of 2004, according to the latest data from the ...

Valero Energy Corp.s Paulsboro, N.J., base oil plant is in line to join the list of Group I producers that have closed in recent years. Officials say ...

The U.S. Energy Information Administration posted data recently tallying the damage that Hurricane Rita did to the nations base oil industry: Paraffin ...