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 ...

Quarterly financial reports issued during the past week offered mixed signals about the health of the lubricants industry. The Lubrizol Corp. reported ...

In the age of the Internet, online sales of lubricants have been slow to take off. But e-commerce is primed to make rapid growth in the lubes industry ...

ChevronTexaco announced yesterday that it will raise U.S. posted prices for its Group II base oils by 7 cents per gallon effective Friday. Industry so ...

Continuing its search for project financing, Probex Corp. has switched to a cheaper option for engineering and construction of its first used motor oi ...

American Refining Group Inc. has acquired a dust suppressant product and a private-label lubricant contract, both as a result of Pennzoil-Quaker State ...

Cross Oil Refining and Marketing Inc., of Smackover, Ark., has purchased the assets of Unimark Oil LLC, an automotive and industrial lubricants packag ...

After 18 months of weak demand and dismal pricing in many segments, the market for alphaolefins is beginning to pick up, says Marilyn Bradshaw, vice p ...

ExxonMobil raised the posted price of its Group II-plus paraffinic base stocks by 5 cents per gallon yesterday. Although no other posted prices had mo ...

Lubrizol recently announced the acquisition of two product lines, defoamers and emulsion explosives additives, from Lambent Technologies Corp., a subs ...

When Shell Oil bought out Texacos share of Equilon Enterprises LLC in January, it set off a battle for the lubricants distribution network that the oi ...