Former Pennzoil-Quaker State executive Gerald Jackson was named general manager of base oils for Motiva Enterprises LLC, effective June 1. Jackson has ...

Simons Petroleum Inc. announced Thursday that it has purchased Colorado petroleum marketer Trevco. The acquisition completes the first step in Simons ...

State-owned giant Oil and Natural Gas Corp., India’s biggest company, has announced its interest in acquiring the 27.2 percent stake that state- ...

The Royal Dutch/Shell Group this month awarded a single multi-year contract for planning and placement of advertising for three business groups, inclu ...

BP, owner of the Castrol brand, and automaker Dong Feng Group last week unveiled an agreement to form a blending and marketing joint venture to supply ...

Valero received no company the past week on its June 1 hike of bright stock prices. Some observers took that as a sign that other bright stock supplie ...

Noco Energy Corp. last month opened a 40,000-square-foot lubricants distribution center in Liverpool, N.Y. The facility, which replaces one of half th ...

Price hikes continue to beset the market for chemicals used in lubricant additives. Supresta, Troy Corp. and Dow Chemical sang a familiar tune with re ...

In an effort to help farmers by stimulating industrial use of vegetable oils, the governor of Iowa signed into law Monday a bill providing tax breaks ...

Dover Chemical Corp. has agreed to buy the chlorinated paraffins business of Pioneer Companies Inc., a deal that gives Dover a monopoly on chlorinated ...

Valero hiked its posted price for bright stock by a nickel per gallon, effective today, attributing the move to continued tightness of supply. Market ...

Washington State commercial fuels marketer PetroCard Systems announced last month that it has acquired Thunderbird Lubrications, one of the nations la ...

The International Group Inc. has acquired Honeywells industrial wax business in the United States, the companies announced yesterday. The transaction ...

ExxonMobil Chemical recently completed an expansion that increased capacity to produce high-viscosity polyalphaolefins at its plant in Beaumont, Texas ...

Russia is the worlds third-largest lubricant market, but a new study predicts it will begin shrinking within the next few years. The Moscow firm Info ...

Base oil prices in the United States are feeling pressure from two forces pushing in opposing directions – unusually high margins that are press ...

Angus Chemical and Anderol recently announced new distribution arrangements, while Stoney Creek Technologies named a new sales and marketing agent. An ...

The European Union has added lubricants to the list of products eligible to carry its Eco-label, establishing the first regionwide program to identify ...

More than a year after undertaking its ethics initiative, the Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association has revised its Code of Ethics and has m ...

After sagging over the past year, base oil exports out of Europe appear to have picked up the past couple months. Still, observers say the rebound has ...