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 ...

U.S. naphthenic base oil prices jumped Friday when Valero announced a hike of 11 cents per gallon on postings for all products. Valero, which became a ...

As crude oil prices continued climbing back toward last years peak, the U.S. base oil market appeared poised for price increases that some called inev ...

Ethyl Corp. said last week that it will ask shareholders to approve a reverse one-for-five stock split aimed at increasing the stocks attractiveness t ...

Fuchs Petrolub AG reported 4.2 percent sales growth in 2001, despite what it described as a downturn in the global lubricants market, especially in No ...

Work is underway in earnest on the next upgrade of passenger car motor oils. Representatives of the auto, oil and additive industries say the new spec ...

The Royal Dutch/Shell Groups announcement that it has agreed to buy Pennzoil-Quaker State Co. raises prospects that themultinational energy giant will ...

Lubricant blenders and marketers in the United States will be paying more for one of their favorite containers, thanks to trade sanctions imposed to p ...

The American Petroleum Institute will stop licensing GF-2passenger car engineoils at the end of this month, effectively forcing nearly all marketers w ...

With its proposed purchase of Pennzoil-Quaker State Co., the Royal Dutch/Shell Group would be neck and neck with ExxonMobil for the title of worlds bi ...

North American lubricant blenders may want to hold onto their seats; the rollercoaster of U.S. base oil prices may soon be going up again. Base oil pr ...