Add another name to the growing list of Pacific Rim companies hurrying to enter the premium base oil market. Formosa Petrochemical Corp. told Lube Rep ...

Saudi Aramco this week denied news reports that it is considering a deal to sell part of its stake in S-Oil Corp. to a South Korean conglomerate. An A ...

The new year will begin with new faces leading several of the lubricant industrys largest companies. Additive suppliers Infineum and Lubrizol have a n ...

Petro-Canada announced last month that it has entered contracts with two European distributors – one to carry industrial lubricants in Italy, th ...

It appearsthat Marathon Ashland Petroleums Group I base oil plant in Catlettsburg, Ky., will not become a wholly-owned asset of Marathon during the fi ...

The American Petroleum Institute has updated its Motor Oil Guide, its primary document for educating consumers about engine oils, to include its lates ...

Shell Deutschland Oil plans to cease base oil production at the smaller of two base oil plants outside Hamburg, Germany, next year as part of a plan t ...

Bijur Lubrication Group announced Monday that it has acquired another lubrication system manufacturer, the British company Denco Lubrication Ltd. Biju ...

The lubricant and lubricant additive markets are closing out 2004 on the same note that has characterized much of the year – rising prices. Arke ...

The winter lull appears to be settling over the U.S. base oil market, and marketers say the slowdown is especially welcome this year. Sellers say they ...

HOUSTON — At its Nov. 8 meeting here, members of the American Petroleum Institute’s influential Lubricants Committee reviewed progress tow ...

Citgo Petroleum Corp. confirmed yesterday that an internal study called for upgrading its Lake Charles, La., base oil plant to produce Group II and Gr ...

The 2008 summer Olympics are still three and a half years away, but Sinopec Corp. has already hitched its flagship lubricant brand to the event, which ...

The American Petroleum Institute yesterday began licensing its much-awaited new gasoline engine oil quality upgrade, designated SM. At its Lubricants ...

Valvoline last month announced the promotions of Mitchell K. Skaggs and Robert R. Craycraft to new senior management positions. The automotive consume ...

Europe has long been a base oil supplier for the world, exporting its own surpluses to Africa and the Middle East, India, the Americas and the Far Eas ...

ExxonMobil Lubricants and Petroleum Specialties next week will raise prices on passenger car motor oils and other consumer automotive lubricants by as ...

Laboratory, R&D and technical managers who work for U.S. lubricant manufacturing companies say they earn as much as $175,000 a year — and a ...

The engine sequence test used to measure motor oil’s contribution to passenger car fuel economy is a cause for “extreme concern,” sa ...

HOUSTON – The trend toward higher quality lubricant base stocks will accelerate the shutdown of petroleum wax plants in the next few years, enou ...