HOUSTON–If you or your customer need to design, say, a diesel engine bearing, a group of tribologists would like to make your job easier. They w ...

Houston contract blender and packager Hi-Port Inc. has been purchased by a privately owned investment group that plans to provide the dollars needed f ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has requested additional information regarding Shell Oil Co.s proposed acquisition of Pennzoil-Quaker State Co., lea ...

Marketers of lubricants made with vegetable oils, agricultural products such as animal fats and oils, or forestry materials, will find a tasty morsel ...

For a change, the U.S. base oil market was quiet last week, the first in a month to pass without price changes. Suppliers expressed varying opinions a ...

Garry Rooney says he hadnt heard whether ChevronTexaco planned to maintain Texaco lubricant brands. Now he knows. Rooney, the former president of 76 L ...

An Ergon official said this week that the company is ahead of schedule to repair damage caused by an April 30 fire at its Vicksburg, Miss., base oil r ...

Infineum International Ltd. announced Monday that it is expanding a plant in Berre, France to produce detergents for marine lubricants. Officials desc ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is expected to signal within two weeks whether it will raise issues that could lead to conditions for approval of Sh ...

The U.S. base oil market seems to have fallen into a brief winter slumber, following a tumultuous succession of price adjustments undertaken in Novemb ...

U.S. lubricant sales volumes for the fourth quarter of 2001 were 2.9 percent lower than in the same period of 2000, according to the latest Quarterly ...

Third Coast Packagings blending plant in Pearland, Texas, was destroyed May 1 by one of the worst fires to hit the U.S. lubricants industry in the pas ...

In what could be its last first quarter report, Pennzoil-Quaker State Co. said its profits for the first three months of 2002 increased 153 percent co ...

Fire damaged Ergon Inc.s refinery in Vicksburg, Miss., last week, sidelining the biggest U.S. source of naphthenic base oil for four to five weeks. In ...

Group I base oil prices are finally going up in the United States, though probably not as much as suppliers had hoped. ExxonMobil on Monday announced ...

Two additive and specialty lubricant manufacturers announced the recent appointments of new presidents. Chemicals industry veteran Peter J. Deutch was ...

Quaker Chemical Corp. reported that its first quarter earnings dropped 40 percent, but said it sees signs of a turnaround in its business, providing f ...

Vern Wedeven calls it the most perplexing – and most critical – tribological problem hes ever faced. In 1993, he was working as a consulta ...

U.S. Group II base oil suppliers completed a round of price increases this week, an event said to result from shifting market demand. Conoco on Monday ...

As an international base oil distributor, Chemlube International Inc. has concluded that the U.S. market would support a steady flow of imports. Now ...