Motiva made a big splash in the base oil market this summer when it announced plans for an enormous 13,700-barrel-per-day expansion at its Port Arthur ...

Chemical companies are continuing to raise prices on lubricant additives. Crompton Corp., Ciba Specialty Chemicals and Dow Chemical Co. all announced ...

Fuchs Petrolub AG said yesterday that its second-quarter profit increased 37 percent year-to-year, largely due to improved performance in Europe and m ...

Another week brought more price hikes in the U.S. base oil market. Group III supplier SK Corp. weighed in with markups of 5 cents per gallon, across t ...

Crompton Corp. says it plans to cut approximately 540 jobs as part of a plan to restructure operations. A spokeswoman said the company has not yet det ...

In a move likely to be followed by other marketers, ConocoPhillips Co. announced last week that most of its passenger car motor oil business will soon ...

BP has agreed to merge its automotive lubricant subsidiary in Japan with a domestic importer that has handled some of its lube brands for 26 years. Th ...

Lubricating Specialties Co. announced Monday that Stephen Milam, current president and chief operating officer, together with private equity firm Vint ...

Paraffinic and naphthenic base oil suppliers continued the latest rounds of price hikes this past week, but buyers and sellers were already talking ab ...

The next heavy-duty diesel engine oil standard is not due to hit the market for another month, but the following upgrade is already beginning to take ...

The lubricant additive businesses of Lubrizol Corp. and the former Ethyl Corp. both posted healthy financial gains for the second quarter, thanks to r ...

Plastic blow-molder Graham Packaging Co. said last week that it has agreed to buy the plastics container business unit of Owens-Illinois Inc. for $1.2 ...

The worlds largest manufacturer of constant velocity jointed sideshafts said last week that it has opened a Detroit area tribology laboratory to study ...

Rising prices have been the theme for the U.S. base oil market this year, and the trend continued the past week – in all kinds of ways. ExxonMob ...

Citing concerns that it was preparing an unfair playing field, the American Petroleum Institute said Friday that it will postpone the start of commerc ...

ChevronTexaco Global Lubricants has taken note of shifting demographics in the United States. The company announced this month that it has begun label ...

Young lubricant industry professionals undergo more continuing education than their veteran counterparts, according to a recent survey by the Society ...

Valvoline achieved a 25 percent increase in profitability for the three-month period ended June 30, thanks mostly to increased sales of premium produc ...

San Joaquin Refining Co. last weekend completed a turnaround that hadcurtailed approximately half of the output of its Bakersfield, Calif., naphthenic ...

ExxonMobil Corp. and the nation of Qatar announced last week that they are proceeding with plans to build a $7 billion gas-to-liquids complex and that ...