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 ...

U.S. naphthenic suppliers have initiated their second round of price increases in a month, citing a scramble among purchasers since Shell Oil Products ...

The Lubrizol Corp. announced yesterday that earnings per share increased 20 percent in the fourth quarter of 2002 vs. the fourth quarter of 2001. Reve ...

U.S. demand for synthetic lubricants and functional fluids — not including the hangdog category of antifreeze — will enjoy 7.2 percent ann ...

For the past two months, the global lubricant industry has felt the pinch of civil unrest in Venezuela. A strike that sidelined the national oil compa ...

Citgo lowered its posted price for bright stock by 5 cents per gallon today, completing a round of cuts for the paraffinic heavy that began two weeks ...

Valvolines operating income for the quarter ended Dec. 31 rose 36 percent from the same period a year earlier, thanks to higher sales volumes, particu ...

Shell Marine Products has announced plans to increase its presence in the United States, primarily by venturing inland. Officials declined to identify ...

Asia is rising and will surpass the West by the end of this century, Standard Chartered Banks chief economist for S.E. Asia, Steve Brice, told the Fue ...

Another week passed without price hikes in U.S. base oils, despite upslopingcrude oil costs and mixed signals on imports from South America and Asia. ...

Chinese Petroleum Corp. plans to build Taiwans second base oil refinery, though probably not for at least four years. An official with the island nati ...

Tensions from terrorist attacks were enough to delay Fuchs Petrolub AGs coming out party in Indonesia, but not to dampen enthusiasm about its prospect ...

Prices did indeed change in the U.S. base oil market this week, but not the way most people expected. ExxonMobil surprised buyers and sellers by lower ...

Lubrizol Corp. last week elected board member James L. Hambrick president, succeeding William G. Bares who remains chairman and chief executive office ...

Shell Oil Products U.S. has agreed to pay $495,000 in fines to settle a federal case over violations of air pollution, water pollution and hazardous w ...

U.S. naphthenic suppliers welcomed 2003 with price hikes, and sources throughout the base oil market warned that coming weeks could be turbulent. Exis ...