After a bad experience with GF-3, U.S. quick lube operators are getting more involved in the next passenger car motor oil upgrade. The Automotive Oil ...

Having gained shareholder approval Aug. 1, Pennzoil-Quaker State Co. moved one step closer to being purchased by Shell Oil. That placed CEO Jim Postl ...

2002 may not seem like a great year for the lubricants industry but, for much of the world, its turning out better than 2001. Thats the assessment of ...

Posted prices for paraffinic base oil in the United States were unchanged during a quiet week for the market. Postings of principal U.S. suppliers are ...

Ethyl Corp. said that its second quarter earnings from continuing operations dropped 73 percent, to $1.4 million, or 9 cents per share. Decreased earn ...

Third Coast Industries will not rise from the ashes of a devastating fire, after all. The Friendswood, Texas, lubricant blender, which said six weeks ...

Automakers have been saying for years that they want formulators to cut the phosphorus content of motor oils, to reduce its poisonous effect on cataly ...

Valvoline parent company Ashland Inc. announced Friday that Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Paul W. Chellgren is stepping down after violating a ...

The U.S. base oil market may be experiencing a slow summer, but the global market has seen recent shake-ups in traditional trading patterns. Sources d ...

Synthetic lubricant demand in Southeast Asia will increase by 3.5 percent annually through 2008, a new study projects. It adds, however, that major oi ...

Second quarter financial reports from the lubricants industry continued to roll out the past week. Pennzoil-Quaker State reported that earnings were u ...

Seeing opportunity in the continuing consolidation of the lubes industry, BP Lubricants has announced a campaign to grab a bigger share of the U.S. ma ...

Rising base oil prices in Europe have some suppliers in the United States speculating that markups in their own market may be around the corner. Unusu ...

The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists will hold an October symposium on the health effects of metalworking fluids – a me ...

Stocks may be tanking and corporate losses generally mounting, but financial news from the lubricants industry was refreshingly good this week. Lubriz ...

ChevronTexaco Corp. and Shell Oil Products U.S. are in a tug-of-war over the biggest portion of the Texaco Xpress Lube chain. With both companies aimi ...

As the paraffinic side of the U.S. base oil market wrapped up its third price hike in three months, the naphthenic side began what could be its first ...

Shell Oil Products U.S. last week announced the appointment of a slew of officials to the lubricants business that would be created by its anticipated ...

D-A Lubricant Co. has been sold by British conglomerate Premier Farnell plc to an Indianapolis, Ind., investment group. D-A, also based in Indianapoli ...

Mexicos national oil company and its largest lubricant maker confirmed recently that they are engaged in negotiations that could unlock the latters ho ...