Crude oil prices plunged this week, greatly relieving cost pressure on base oil refiners. But base oil purchasers shouldnt expect suppliers to pass on ...

Naphthenic base oil prices continue to rise, with sky-high crude costs receiving the blame. Calumet Lubricants Co. announced an across-the-board marku ...

The owners of Nor-Lakes Services Midwest Inc. have formed a new company, NL Grease LLC, that has agreed to buy bankrupt Farmland Industries Inc.s Kans ...

Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. plans this week to resume production at the Refineria Isla naphthenic base oil refinery on Curacao, according to PdVSAs jo ...

U.S. base oil prices continued their upward trend the past week, as most major paraffinic suppliers joined a round of markups started by ExxonMobil Fe ...

LONDON — With 32 million people and a large, modern vehicle fleet, the oil-rich Arab Gulf countries of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirate ...

LONDON — “Naphthenic base oils have seen more change in the past three months — and even more in the past three weeks — than I ...

ExxonMobil yesterday announced price hikes for its paraffinic base oil postings, just a week after U.S. suppliers completed the most recent round of m ...

Benz Oil, of Milwaukee, Wis., announced recently that it has acquired metalworking fluid blender Nocco Oil Products Inc. The deal expands product offe ...

U.S. lubricant sales volumes for the third quarter of 2002 barely improved from the same period a year earlier, and remained down from several years a ...

LONDON — What kinds of engine oils will be made when Gas-to-Liquid base oils appear? And can anything be done to widen the use of Group I base s ...

U.S. paraffinic base oil suppliers this past week completed their first round of price hikes in nearly four months. Their margins received little bene ...

Universal Oil Inc. has expanded its coverage of Ohio by purchasing the lubricant business of a bankrupt oil products distributor. Universal, which is ...

On the brink of bankruptcy, Probex Corp. said this month that it has failed to obtain a key financial instrument for its proposed used lubricant repro ...

In early January the Standards Division of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services issued a stop sale order on Starbrite SA ...

Long-anticipated price hikes for paraffinics hit the U.S. base oil market this past week, as five suppliers imposed markups that generally ranged from ...

Cognis announced last week that it has agreed to acquire Degussa AGs Laporte Performance Chemicals, a manufacturer of polyalkylene glycols and other c ...

Ethyl Corp. returned to the black in 2002, while Milacron Inc.s Industrial Fluids business was generallymuted. Ethyl announced Monday that it had net ...

Announced last February, the decision to disinvest in Indias government-controlled oil majors Hindustan Petroleum Corp. and Bharat Petroleum Corp. is ...

Shell Oil Products US said Thursday that it will stop producing naphthenic base oils at its Martinez, Calif., refinery Sept. 1, the second naphthenics ...