Fresh out of bankruptcy, Safety-Kleen Corp. announced last week that it is looking for a captain to chart its course. The Plano, Texas, used oil reref ...

U.S. base oil suppliers said late last year that demand for exports was unusually strong. It appears that it has only improved in the new year, especi ...

With a final retort to complaints from independent lubricant blenders, the committee drafting the GF-4 passenger car motor oil specification voted las ...

The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services issued a stop sale order late last month on an undetermined quantity of 5W-30 motor ...

After losing the Mars Polar Lander four years ago, Americas space agency was thrilled this month when the first of two Mars Exploration Rovers landed ...

A three-judge federal appeals court in Philadelphia heard arguments Friday in a suit brought by unions trying to force the United States to tighten re ...

South Korean conglomerate SK Corp. has taken a more active role in the North American base oil market by forming a U.S. subsidiary, SK E&P Co., wi ...

Fast-growing Warren Oil Co. last week completed its biggest acquisition yet, buying Coastal Unilube from El Paso Corp. for $34 million. The deal more ...

Ethyl Corp. announced Monday that it is entering the metalworking fluid additives market, one of the first major launches from its product pipeline si ...

Dover Chemical Corp. yesterday named eight distributors to carry its products throughout the United States and Canada – a move taken to streamli ...

With buyers and sellers returning from the holidays, the U.S. base oil market entertained much discussion about prices this week – specifically ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has published draft guidelines requiring federal agencies to use biobased products, a mandate aimed at spurring dem ...

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a letter recently denying a decade-old request by the United Autoworkers to lower limits ...

Lubrizol Corp. announced last week that it has agreed to acquire the specialty additive business of chemical supplier Avecia. Lubrizol, which has set ...

This week closes out a tumultuous year for the U.S. base oil market – a year fraught with plant shut downs. The market will soon see if it can a ...

Citing a desire to be thorough in its response to critics, the committee writing the next passenger car motor oil standard delayed its final vote last ...

North Americas lubricant industry is regaining some of the natural sodium sulfonate supply that it lost with Shell Oil Co.s closing of its Martinez, C ...

Quick-lube operators wondering if it is prudent to push synthetic motor oils need not worry about losing money to drain intervals. So said Castrol Con ...

The U.S. base oil market was quiet this week in the midst of the holiday season. Posted prices were again unchanged. The price of crude oil on the New ...

A U.S. appeals court last week denied a motion by the Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association and three other groups to join a lawsuit in whic ...