As the deadline to begin work on the next generation of passenger car engine oils presses ever closer, an impatient auto industry says it has approach ...

Life isnt easy for Mexicos biggest lubricants company, not even with a cushy if contested deal giving it exclusive access to the shelves of the nation ...

After a busy autumn, the U.S. base oil market appears to be settling in for hibernation, with suppliers downplaying the likelihood of further price mo ...

After four years of work, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration last month issued a manual recommending ways for employers to protect ...

Chevron Oronite Co. LLC has reached an agreement to supply lubricating oil additives to Russian oil giant OAO Lukoil Oil Co., a deal that marks a step ...

Last Wednesday saw the birth of the latest diesel engine oil specification, API CI-4. Equilons Ralph Cherrillo, chairman of Subcommittee B of ASTMs Co ...

As expected, U.S. base oil suppliers followed ExxonMobils lead during the past week, lowering prices for the second time in two months. Suppliers gene ...

ExxonMobil Corp. on Monday named Jerry Kohlenberger president of ExxonMobil Lubricants and Petroleum Specialties Co. Effective Jan. 1 he will succeed ...

Fuchs Petrolub AG reported that its sales for the first nine months of 2001 increased 5.6 percent from last year, despite a decrease in global lubrica ...

ExxonMobil Corp. has reached an agreement to buy Indian Oil Corp.s 50-percent stake in Indo Mobil Pvt. Ltd. This isthe latestbreak-up of a lubricants ...

Syntroleum Corp. has secured all major contracts necessary for construction of its gas-to-liquids specialties plant in Western Australia. But the proj ...

ExxonMobil yesterday announced an across-the-board price reduction of 7 cents per gallon in base oil prices, a move expected to spur similar cuts by o ...

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. last month launched a promotion to provide personal accident insurance to purchasers of its Servo brand motor oils. The campaign ...

With approval of the next generation of heavy-duty engine oils apparently imminent, the first products could hit the market as early as next month. Th ...

Large portions of the worlds base oil market are, according to William R. Downey Jr., ripe for change. And it is a safe bet, he maintains, that petrol ...

Automakers have again requested a revamped engine oil development process — one where they hold all the reins in setting needs, deadlines and li ...

U.S. base oil suppliers and buyers said this week that the market remains robust despite the growing likelihood of impending price cuts. One marketer ...

The Lubrizol Corp. and GE Transportation Systems have dissolved a 16-month-old joint venture aimed at developing fluid monitoring and fluid management ...

Lubricant demand in Western Europe declined slightly in 2000, as a decrease in consumption of automotive products outweighed growth in the industrial ...

The newly proposed merger of Phillips Petroleum Co. and Conoco Inc. would combine a broad range of lubricants assets and operations. But the different ...