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Streicher Mobile Fueling Inc. announced last week that it has agreed to buy H&W Petroleum Co., a large lubricant distributor based in Houston, for ...

Angus Boosts Additive Output

September 14, 2005

Angus Chemical Co. last week announced completion of an expansion at its Sterlington, La., plant to boost its output of several materials, including a ...

Base Oil Price Report

September 14, 2005

Rumors swirled last week about hefty price increases, but industry sources now say that the market has tempered, crude and VGO prices have dipped, and ...

As New Orleans began its long road to recovery from Hurricane Katrina, there were still no timetables yesterday for the return of an important lubrica ...

Experts say that nonconventional base stocks– meaning every kind except traditional solvent-refined mineral oils — account for less than 1 ...

Total has agreed to buy ExxonMobils lubricants and fuels business in 14 African countries for an undisclosed amount, the companies announced Monday. T ...

ConocoPhillips last week launched a new line of white oils and food-grade lubricants to be marketed under its Conoco, Phillips 66 and 76 brand names. ...

Base Oil Price Report

September 7, 2005

Naphthenic base oil supplier San Joaquin Refining confirmed yesterday that it briefly imposed allocations on sales of 100 pale oil last week. The Cali ...

U.S. polyethylene prices will be high and tight, averaging over 60 cents per pound for the next 18 months, an industry consultant told last weeks meet ...

German packaging supplier Mauser Group announced last week that it has reached an agreement to acquire Russell-Stanley Holdings Inc., one of the large ...

Shrader Expands in Michigan

August 31, 2005

Shrader Tire and Oil Co. has opened a new 200,000 sq. ft. lubricant and tire distribution center to meet its growing markets in Michigan, the company ...

Base Oil Price Report

August 31, 2005

The U.S. base oil market completed its latest round of price hikes the past week. Observers warned that postings could climb further as fuel prices su ...

Hurricane Katrina laid some punches on the U.S. lubricant industry as it barreled ashore Monday. Chevron Oronites main additive plant in the United St ...

Hatco Corp. and Celanese Chemicals on Thursday announced plans to close their German joint venture Estech GmbH, a three-year-old manufacturer of polyo ...

Struggling to keep pace with rising costs, lubricant marketers in the United States are pushing through another round of price hikes for finished prod ...

Neste Oil Corp. announced Thursday that it has agreed to form a joint venture with Bahrain Petroleum Co. to build a Group III base oil plant in the ti ...

The lubricant additive market is roiling this month after a declaration by Chevron Oronite Co. that it currently cannot meet contractual supply obliga ...

In the face of challenges presented by rising costs of petroleum products, Fuchs Petrolub AG reported a 34-percent jump in its profit for the first ha ...

Avatar Expands Facilities

August 24, 2005

Avatar Corp. is nearly tripling the size of its lubricant and specialty release agent manufacturing facilities in University Park, Ill., with a $5 mil ...

Base Oil Price Report

August 24, 2005

After stutter-stepping for a week, paraffinic base oil suppliers in the United States this week followed Motiva in the latest round of price hikes. Ex ...