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 ...

U.S. base oil exports into Mexico are up, market sources say, due apparently to operational problems at that countrys lone base oil plant. Otherwise t ...

HOUSTON – Traditionally a net exporter of base oils, the United States in the past two years has moved closer to balance in the volumes it impor ...

HOUSTON – The next passenger car motor oil upgrade will leave the U.S. base oil market with a 10,000-barrel-per-day deficit of API Group II base ...

DANA POINT, Calif. — Lubricating grease manufacturing is an energy-intensive, multi-phase effort, beginning with a tricky saponification step in ...

Fuchs Petrolub AG announced Monday that its profit through the first nine months of 2004 was up 31.7 percent from the same period of last year, thanks ...

Nynas USA yesterday denied rumors that production at the Valero naphthenic base oil plant in Three Rivers, Texas, has been hampered since completion o ...

To help airlines slash the number of greases they use, an inter-industry committee has finished developing a standard for general purpose airframe gre ...

China is drawing a lot of attention these days as a growth opportunity for lubricant marketers. But a new study says prospects are also good on the op ...

Milacron Inc. reported last week that earnings from its industrial fluids business fell 42 percent during the third quarter as rising raw materials co ...

Posted prices for paraffinic base oils in the United States were unchanged this week. The market was relatively quiet, with many buyers and sellers as ...

Shell Marine Products (US) Co. will receive a big – and potentially huge – contract to provide lubricants and related services to the agen ...