Ethyl Corp. announced thatcontinuing operationslost money during the third quarter but added that it has finished a downsizing program undertaken earl ...

Principal U.S. base oil suppliers followed ExxonMobils lead over the past week, cutting prices 3 or 5 cents per gallon for most grades and 10 cents pe ...

Trying to get a foot inside food processing plants, Conoco Inc.s finished lubricants division has agreed to serve as marketer of Anderol food-grade lu ...

Laboratory and R&D managers responding to an annual survey of U.S. lubricant industry salaries say they earned an average of $86,032, or 13 percen ...

A spate of recent earnings announcements offer a glimpse of how the U.S. lubricants industry is faring during the current economic downturn. The repor ...

Spurred by deflated crude oil costs, ExxonMobil cut its base oil prices this week, a move that other suppliers appeared likely to follow. According to ...

The former president of 76 Lubricants Co. is reentering the industry with a hybrid broker-cooperative that will supply motor oils and other lubes to t ...

CHS Cooperatives has reached a deal to buy Farmland Industries’ 40 percent share in their three-year-old joint venture, Country Energy. The pur ...

The metalworking fluids sector, which already caters to a wide variety of manufacturing applications, is adding another to its list, thanks to the aut ...

U.S. base oil suppliers appear to be starting to lean toward price cuts as American attacks in Afghanistan and the OPEC cartel fail to revive crude oi ...

Shareholders of Chevron Corp. and Texaco Inc. voted Tuesday to approve the merger of their companies, a $39.5 billion deal that creates the worlds fif ...

For the first time in a decade and a half, Gulf lubricants are returning to most of the United States, thanks to a new campaign that is heavy on e-com ...

In a move that was widely anticipated, Shell Oil Co. and Saudi Refining Inc. announced yesterday that they will purchase Texaco Inc.s shares in the tw ...

U.S. base oil suppliers continued to maintain their posted prices while waiting and watching for signs of where crude oil prices will settle. Crude pr ...

Petro-Canada announced last week that it had settled a six-month strike by 475 Toronto-area employees, including most production workers at its Missis ...

Plant managers responding to a recent U.S. lubricant industry salary survey earned an average of $67,428, nearly $10,000 less than those responding to ...

Sunoco Inc. announced Thursday that it has agreed to sell its mothballed Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, base oil refinery to Shell Chemical. The deal apparentl ...

The tumult and trials that the international lubricants market has faced for the past decade should continue for the foreseeable future, according to ...

As crude oil prices sagged and uncertainty about the U.S. economy persisted, the outlook for base oil prices became more cloudy. Crude prices, which j ...

Would-be used oil processor Probex announced that it has received $4.1 million in interim financing and remains confident of its ability to obtain app ...