It appears that even foreign suppliers are not to be left out of the disruptions that have afflicted the U.S. base oil market this year. A fire broke ...

Quaker Chemical Corp. announced Monday that it has acquired Cincinnati Vulcan Co.s steel and food-grade lubricants businesses. Quaker said the transac ...

As Ineos Chlor seeks to become a prominent North American supplier of chlorinated paraffins, it has allied with two chemical distributors freed up by ...

Prices for paraffinic base oils in the United States have not changed since mid-August, but the market leader is apparently still trying to justify th ...

The United Auto Workers and the United Steelworkers of America yesterday sued U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, seeking to force the federal govern ...

The Royal Dutch/Shell Group and Qatar Petroleum signed an agreement Monday to build a 140,000-barrel-per-day gas-to-liquids refinery – a plant t ...

The fiscal quarter ended Sept. 30 yielded quite different results for two lubricant industry heavies. Valvoline closed out its best fiscal year with f ...

Base oil gross refining margins are up in North America this year, but are lagging well behind those being seen in Western Europe. According to an ana ...

With the new GF-4 gasoline engine oil upgrade now virtually certain to be approved later this year, industrywide interest has turned sharply to the de ...

In a surprise move on Oct. 3, Indias Cabinet Committee on Disinvestment came up with a proposal to split Indian Oil Corp., Indias only Fortune 500 com ...

Specialty chemical company H&R Wasag AG will buy BPs European specialty products business, including its base oil refinery in Neuhof, Germany, th ...

Houghton International recently sold its ferrous wiredrawing lubricants division to North American Lubricants and Chemicals Inc., a small start-up for ...

Petro-Canadas base oil refinery in Mississauga, Ontario, will not return to full production until at least next week or possibly the following week, a ...

Whereas a majority of car owners once performed their own engine oil changes, today most pay someone else to do it for them. A new study says the same ...

U.S. lubricant sales for the second quarter of 2003 were 8 percent lower than the same period of 2002, according to the latest Quarterly Lubricant Sal ...

Aspen Chemicalis nowcarrying the products of two additional companies in the northeastern United States. Uniqema announced last week that it has appoi ...

North American purchasers of Group II base oils were looking forward this week to the resumption of normal operations at Petro-Canadas Lubricant Centr ...

Hundreds of lubricants stand to be dropped in three months from the world’s most widely recognized registry of food-grade products as NSF Intern ...

Three years after it was created to commercialize lubricants made from soybean oil, Environmental Lubricants Manufacturing Inc. has moved out of its q ...

Ergon Refining Inc. announced Tuesday that it has entered into voluntary agreements with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state agencies t ...