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 ...

On March 18 the American Petroleum Institutes Lubricants Committee met in Baltimore to discuss its proposed new gasoline engine oil service category, ...

BP announced Monday that it is putting its linear alphaolefins and polyalphaolefins business on the sales block as it adopts a new strategy for its pe ...

Bright stock production at Sunocos Tulsa, Okla., base oil plant was halted by a March 23 fire, but the company said it expects to resume operations ne ...

Fuchs Petrolub AG announced last week that it had net income of Euro 30.9 million in 2003, an increase of 28 percent over 2002. The Mannheim, Germany, ...

U.S. base oil capacity was 7.8 percent lower at the beginning of 2004 than it was a year earlier, according to the latest statistics from the National ...

A federal appeals court on Monday denied a petition by two unions to force the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration to adopt stricter li ...

The U.S. Department of Justice and Crompton Corp. announced Monday that the company has agreed to plead guilty to participating in an international co ...

Hatco Corp. announced last week that it has entered a technical agreement with ApNano Materials Inc. to develop novel lubricants using the worlds firs ...

Ashland Inc. and Marathon Oil Corp. announced Friday that the latter has agreed to buy out the formers 38-percent stake in Marathon Ashland Petroleum, ...

SHANGHAI – Independent lubricant blenders throughout much of Asia will likely be forced out of business in coming years due to inability to obta ...

Ethyl Corp.s board of directors has asked shareholders to approve a holding company structure. Ethyl would become a wholly owned subsidiary of the new ...