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 ...

Castrols industrial lubricant business has scrapped a market-based structure adopted last year in favor of focusing its organization again on geograph ...

Union members on Friday ratified a four-year contract covering ChevronTexacos Richmond, Calif., complex, including its 14,000 barrel-per-day base oil ...

Grocery and convenience stores have surpassed service stations as the most numerous U.S. outlets for motor oil, according to a new report by the Autom ...

U.S. base oil suppliers this week completed an expected but ragged round of price cuts, triggered by ExxonMobils reductions Feb. 20. All other princip ...

Trying to foster cooperation between the lubricant industry and powertrain designers, SAE International has retooled its former Fall Fuels and Lubrica ...

The Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association is looking for a new executive director after the abrupt departure last week of Michael C. Metallo ...

Toyota Motor Sales USA has made a one-time offer to cover repair of customer vehicles that have been damaged by engine oil gelation. Toyota emphasized ...

ExxonMobil this week announced that it will lower base oil prices again, a move likely to trigger the fourth round of cuts in just over four months. O ...

Fresh from its spin-off by Henkel, Cognis has unveiled a streamlined organizational structure aimed at increasing flexibility and speeding decision-ma ...

Already facing a tall task to finance its Sweetwater gas-to-liquids plant, Syntroleum Corp. has suffered another setback in the loss of bankrupt energ ...