A third South Korean refiner is preparing to join the base oil business. GS Caltex is finalizing plans to build a 15,000-barrel-per-day plant at its o ...

Chevron Products Co. said last week that its blending plant in Port Arthur, Texas, has resumed production following repairs of damage caused by Hurric ...

Valvolines profit for fiscal 2005 fell 14 percent from a year ago due to a combination of slower lubricant sales and higher raw material costs, parent ...

With its Lake Charles, La., refinery recovered from Hurricane Rita, Citgo said yesterday that it has rescinded a force majeure declaration for its bas ...

Alaska Airlines is facing new questions about lubrication of a tail assembly in its MD-80 series jets – the same assembly whose failure caused a ...

DaimlerChrysler’s Chrysler Group has launched the rebrand licensing program for its trademarked ATF+4 automatic transmission fluids. Four oil co ...

The U.S. base oil market apparently has begun to regain the first barrels of capacity knocked offline by Hurricane Rita. Citgo told Lube Report yester ...

Led by another significant drop in demand for process oils, U.S. lubricant sales volumes dipped 0.2 percent in the second quarter of 2005 compared to ...

Flint Hills Resources raised posted prices by 10 cents per gallon across the board Friday, completing an unusually drawn-out round of hikes for paraff ...

With the dust settled from hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the U.S. lubricants industry finds itself splitting at the seams – riddled with an unpre ...

In a case of the little fish swallowing the big fish, Ineos has agreed to buy BPs Innovene – an olefins and derivatives business that is more th ...

Spanish refiner Cepsa confirmed yesterday that it plans to close its base oil plant in Palos de la Frontera in February. The plant has capacity to mak ...

Munzing Chemie, parent of foam control additive supplier Ultra Additives, has opened an office in Shanghai and plans to install laboratory facilities ...

Two more suppliers joined the latest round of base oil price hikes in the United States, leaving just one that has not. Motiva said yesterday that it ...

The U.S. lubricant industry continued holding its breath this week as four base oil plants remained closed in the wake of Hurricane Rita. The refinery ...

The American Petroleum Institute took steps Monday to ensure that engine oil marketers can continue to license new products, despite the recent Gulf o ...

BANGKOK – Eking out fuel savings wherever it can, Toyota Motor Corp. is urging customers throughout Asia to use engine oils no heavier than 10W- ...

Total was forced to close its refinery and base oil plant in Gonfreville, France, last week because of a strike – the second labor walk-off at t ...

Naveen Gupta received kudos for helping Valvoline grow its sales in India. Now hes being asked to replicate the success in areas such as China, Brazil ...

A few more price increases trickled through the U.S. base oil market the past week, as several suppliers remained preoccupied with disruptions caused ...