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 ...

The American Petroleum Institute holds its regularly scheduled spring Lubricants Committee meeting today in Houston. Two agenda items, the first and t ...

Come April 2002, the Indian petroleum industry will be deregulated, including the four major public sector undertakings: Indian Oil Corp., Hindustan P ...

The automotive lubricants sector may be used to change but, according to Infineum, it aint seen nothing like the next motor oil upgrades. In its annua ...

U.S.prices for naphthenic base oilshave seen less movement in recent months thanparaffinics- thanks, in part at least, to constraints in production. S ...

Hatco Corp. is partnering with a raw material supplier to build a neo polyol ester plant in Oberhausen, Germany. The Fords, N.J., company is building ...

The Valvoline Co. has introduced a heavy-duty engine oil that can extend drain intervals, it claims, as high as 100,000 miles. Officials acknowledge, ...

Aircraft security and safety concerns grabbed headlines these past few months, while question marks loomed over the airline industrys very viability. ...

U.S. lube oil refining capacity has slipped to 210,400 barrels per day, a decline of more than 6 percent since January 2001, and 9 percent off 1997 ...

NEW ORLEANS-The old Equilon Lubricants business may have shrunk when Shell bought out partner Texaco last month. But Shell officials have ambitious pl ...

Crude oil prices may be on the rise again but U.S. base oil suppliers see no reason to expect their prices to follow anytime soon. The U.S. base oil m ...