Specialty lubricant blender Hydrotex Partners announced last week that it will expand by moving its manufacturing operations to a new 96,000-square-fo ...

A union of Nigerian petroleum workers launched its own motor oil recently as part of an effort to combat illegal sales of fraudulent products. The hea ...

U.S. demand for lubricant additives is expected to grow 2.3 percent per year to $1.7 billion in 2006, according to a new study by The Freedonia Group ...

After the formation of ConocoPhillips, company officials said its too early to say what they will do withtheir share of base oils from the Excel Paral ...

E-commerce services provider The TAK Group announced yesterday that it has acquired LubeTrak, a provider of online oil analysis. The companies said Lu ...

Turkmenistans state-owned oil companies recently opened the countrys first lubricant blending plant, a facility that is expected to meet all of the na ...

(MUMBAI, India) – On September 7, the Indian government deferred disinvestment in state oil majors Bharat Petroleum Corp. (BPC) and Hindustan Pe ...

At the request of U.S. Federal Trade Commission officials,Shell Oil Co.and Pennzoil-Quaker State Co.have agreedto divest Pennzoil-Quaker States stake ...

U.S. base oil suppliers this week completed a round of price hikes described by some as a cautious response to higher crude oil costs. Principal suppl ...

Fuchs Petrolub AG reported that its net income for the first half of 2002 more than doubled from the same period of 2001, due to external and internal ...

(MUMBAI, India) – Indias Disinvestment Ministry has short-listed prospective bidders and announced that the privatization of Balmer Lawrie and C ...

Yesterdays merger of Conoco Inc. and Phillips Petroleum Co. created the fourth-largest lubricants marketer in the United States. Officials called it a ...

ExxonMobil announced yesterday that it is raising most of its base oil postings by 5 cents per gallon, effective today. According to sources, the comp ...

Gulf Oil Indias parent company, Hinduja Group, announced last week that it has completed the merger of the lubricant business with its sister company, ...

Eight years after it was promised, the U.S. Senate has received a proposal that would afford lubricant distributors the same rights as fuel distributo ...

Concerns about a shortage in the United States of Group II-plus have abated in recent weeks, although demand continues to be strong. Buyers and seller ...

A Western Canada waste management company has agreed to acquire the assets of Mohawk Lubricants Ltd., including the worlds first commercial rerefinery ...

First quarter lubricant sales in the United States fell 2.7 percent from the first quarter of 2001, according to the latest Quarterly Index of Lubrica ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has turned aside a request by the American Trucking Associations to delay a mandate requiring cleaner diesel ...

“When Baytown goes down, it’s an eclipse of the sun,” says one industry observer. “Baytown is the most influential refinery in ...