It has taken Simons Petroleum Inc. more than half a century and a lot of organic growth to become one of the biggest oil jobbers in the United States. ...

BP announced last week that it intends to close its 7,000 barrel-per-day Coryton base oil plant in Essex, U.K., by the end of 2005 to allow its refine ...

The calendar year started off on a good note for two lubricant industry heavies. Lubrizol Corp. reported last week that it had a profit of $37.5 milli ...

Akzo Nobel announced Monday that it has agreed to sell its Phosphorus Chemicals business to private equity firm Ripplewood Holdings LLC for Euro 230 m ...

Flint Hills Resources has begun posting prices for its Group II base oils and says it is expanding the number of customers with which it contracts. We ...

On Friday the American Petroleum Institute’s Lubricants Committee met in telephone conference to discuss the results of its ballot on how and wh ...

This time Lubrizol reeled in a big one. After a series ofsmaller acquisitions over the past few years, the worlds biggest supplier of lubricant additi ...

The Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association warned members this week that the Mexican government is auditing lubricant and base oil imports fr ...

DuPont announced this month that the target date for completing the sale of its Textiles and Interiors subsidiary, recently renamed Invista,to subsidi ...

Last month the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association released this years edition of its annual Lubricating Oil and Wax Capacities report, th ...

Prices for motor oils and other finished lubricants are on the rise. Two major suppliers announced price hikes this month and observers expect others ...

Castrol Consumer North America is promoting its Syntec motor oils to the MTV generation by sponsoring a new television program about makeovers for car ...

The North American base oil market appears to have emerged unscathed from its turnaround season. ExxonMobils base oil refinery in Baton Rouge, La., re ...

Sasol and Qatar Petroleum announced last month that they are considering an expansion of the Oryx gas-to-liquids refinery now under construction in Ra ...

Lubricant sales volumes in the United States were 4.3 percent lower in 2003 than in 2002, according to preliminary estimates released last week by the ...

Quick lubes may be moving into small-town America, but assumptions about them offering less profitability are turning out to be true. That was the con ...

Curtiss-Wright Corp., a provider of metal treatment products and services, announced last week that it has bought the Everlube Products Division of Mo ...

Ergon raised prices for naphthenic base oils 5 cents per gallon Friday, the latest in a series of sometimes disjointed movements for pale oils. Suppli ...

In a March 2 Dear Manufacturer letter to auto companies, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency made clear its position on GF-4 motor oils: If autom ...

ChevronTexaco acquired a Bluefield, W.Va., lubricant blending plant and a lubricants training center in Houston from Shell Oil Co. late last year unde ...