The Chrysler Group on Monday announced that it will begin licensing its trademarked automatic transmission fluid specification, ATF+4, for commercial ...

The National Rifle Association has asked members to boycott ConocoPhillips products, including gasoline and lubricants,in response to the energy compa ...

At first glance, the latest report on U.S. lubricant sales volumes from the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association looks discouraging: a 2.9 ...

A quiet U.S. base oil market received a jolt this week, or at least a mild bump, with news that the Marathon-Ashland Petroleum refinery in Catlettsbur ...

Canadian chemical supplier Chemtrade Logistics Income Fund this month acquired Peak Chemical LLC, one of two North American suppliers of a key compone ...

With the ink barely dry on the latest round of price hikes, Motiva dropped a bomb on the U.S. base oil market yesterday, announcing additional markups ...

Observers of the international lubricant industry have Total penciled in for a 10,000-barrel-per-day upgrade at its base oil plant in Gonfreville, Fra ...

Pilot Chemical Co. announced last week that it plans to relocate corporate offices from three U.S. locations to Cincinnati, site of its primary manufa ...

Nearly half – 47 percent – of the lubricating oil sold in the United Kingdom and Western Canada is collected for reuse or rerefining, and ...

Huntsman Corp. has announced plans to expand its capacity to produce ethylene carbonate at its manufacturing facility in Conroe, Texas. Ethylene carbo ...

ExxonMobil announced Friday that it is raising posted prices for paraffinic base oils in the United States by 10 cents per gallon today. Three other s ...

From the day it’s refined until it’s blended into a finished lubricant, base oil exists in an unhappy limbo state, parked in the refinery& ...

Coping with rising raw material costs loomed large in second quarter performance for several companies in the lubricant industry. Lubrizols lube addit ...

Parc Technical Services Inc. was acquiredby Intertek Caleb Brett, a leading provider of laboratory services to the oil and refining industries, the co ...

Price increases continued to buffet the U.S. base oil market the past week, this time on the naphthenic side of the industry. Several pale oil supplie ...

Valvoline’s operating income for the quarter ended June 30 was $26 million, down 13 percent from the year-ago quarter, attributed to lower lubri ...

A metalworking fluid system with no sump, no splash, no water, no biocides — maybe even no additives? Researchers at the University of Michigan ...

Dial Oil Co., Farmington, N.M., a gasoline, diesel and lubricant distributor, was acquired this month by Giant Industries, Inc. Dial, a supplier of Co ...

Chevron, Sunoco and SK this week concluded the latest round of price hikes for paraffinic base oils. Chevron increased the posted price of its Group I ...

Cognis Deutschland GmbH announced Wednesday that it has agreed to expand its oleochemicals joint venture with a Malaysian plantation owner by contribu ...