BEIJING – Chinas appetite for high-quality base oils is about to take a giant leap forward, an official at Group III refiner SK Corp. predicted. ...

Profits are picking up in the chemical industry, leading suppliers to plan increased investment in new manufacturing capacity, according to the result ...

The dust had just begun to settle from the most recent round – or was it two? – of U.S. base oil price hikes. Then came an announcement la ...

The latest report on base oil refining capacity in the United States shows changes at a number of plants in the past year and indicates that capacity ...

BEIJING – Chinas two top lubricant companies claim 60 percent of that countrys growing lube market, and theyre gearing up to take even more mark ...

Crompton Corp. on Thursday announced an agreement to sell its Refined Products business – a leading producer of white oils and petrolatums ̵ ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Crude oil prices may be at record highs, but they could very well go higher still – quite a bit higher. That was the messa ...

The U.S. base oil market decided to go for a full-scale price increase, after all, and what a topsy-turvy round of hikes it turned out to be. After li ...

Youre a metalworking fluid expert? Sez who? The Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers is ready to offer a reliable gauge for answering tha ...

Base oil production in the United States climbed 2.3 percent in 2004, according to newly released data from the Department of Energys Energy Informati ...

LONDON – Lubricant demand in South America is at last growing and by 2007 the regions need will pass 2.5 million tons per year, from about 2.3 m ...

In a move that creates one of the largest suppliers of chemicals for the lubricants industry, Crompton Corp. and Great Lakes Chemical Corp. announced ...

LubesnGreases MagazinesMarch issue is now available online, free to readers worldwide.Highlights include: Europe’s Waste Oil Options: The EU sa ...

A smattering of markups peppered the U.S. base oil market the past week, although posted prices for most paraffinic oils were unchanged. Bright stock ...

Lubricant marketers – especially those that peddle passenger car motor oils – frequently complain that the general public knows little abo ...

One worker was killed and another injured in an accident at Chevron Oronites lubricant additive factory on Jurong Island, Singapore, Sunday. The compa ...

Nynas Naphthenics AB on Monday lifted a global force majeure declaration for transformer oils, issued 10 days earlier because of operational problems ...

Move over Shell. Theres a new partnership in line to become the first large-scale producer of gas-to-liquids base oils. Sasol Chevron and Qatar Petrol ...

ExxonMobil on Monday announced price hikes of 10 cents per gallon for bright stock, the first markups in the United States in four months. Valero quic ...

Quaker Chemical Corp. reported its net income for 2004 fell 39 percent from the previous year, dragged down by higher raw material costs and increased ...