Idemitsu Kosan Co.s lubricant portfolio for Japan is chlorine-free after the company removed the element from its cutting fluids last month. The Tokyo ...

A Gateway Additive Co. plant in Detroit was knocked out of operation by a fire April 8. No one was injured in the blaze, which began shortly after 7 p ...

Despite recent drops in crude oil costs, European base oil prices are on the rise – and U.S. suppliers are avoiding downward pricing pressure as ...

PC-10, the diesel oil upgrade due out in June 2005, “has to be finished on time,” ChevronTexaco’s Jim McGeehan told ASTM’s Hea ...

Crompton Corp. announced last week that it will increase production of sodium sulfonates at its Amsterdam, Netherlands, factory to help meet a shortag ...

Would-be used oil reprocessor Probex Corp. has sold its used oil collection business to pay off part of its defaulted debt. The company said the lack ...

BP Chemical reopened its Pasadena, Texas, linear alphaolefin plant last week – just a month after halting production because of rising costs and ...

Additive maker Functional Products Inc. announced last week that it has been purchased by Netmed Inc., a holding company new to the lubricants industr ...

Spring is here, but the lubricant industry has been slow to emerge from its winter hibernation – much to the chagrin of base oil suppliers. Base ...

Shell Oil Products US has winnowed to three the field of potential buyers of its stake in the Excel Paralubes base oil business, according to sources ...

Citing national security concerns in Indias core hydrocarbon sector, workmen unions of Hindustan Petroleum Corp. and Bharat Petroleum Corp. embarked o ...

Metal treatment services provider Curtiss-Wright Corp. has bought the leading U.S. provider of solid film lubricant coatings, E/M Engineered Coatings ...

U.S. supply of Group II-plus base oils has been tight for some time now, but market observers say it has tightened even further in recent weeks. Some ...

Independent lubricant manufacturer Warren Oil Co. has bought two blending and packaging plants from Shell Oil Products US. The plants are located in J ...

In a move expected to tighten supply of feedstock for polyalphaolefins, BP recently idled its linear alphaolefin plant in Pasadena, Texas. BP said it ...

Pitt Penn Oil Co. emerged from nearly 21 months of bankruptcy Monday with new ownership based in Cleveland, Ohio. The Creighton, Pa., blender of autom ...

Crude oil prices dropped further over the past week, butthe threat of protracted warin Iraq raised concerns that the recent reprieve could be short-li ...

Alaska Airlines parent company disclosed last week that federal prosecutors have reactivated a criminal investigation of maintenance performed on an M ...

ExxonMobil has loosened the reins on its ester-based jet turbine oils business following the expiration of restrictions imposed when Exxon Corp. merge ...

Calumet Lubricants Co. announced last week that it has purchased ExxonMobils Orchex agricultural spray oils business. The transaction covers three lin ...