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At least 30,000 metric tons of lubricants made up the vast bulk of oil products being held in a tanker that caught fire during last month's deadly bla ...

Briefly Noted

November 23, 2016

Ergon Inc.s board of directors named Emmitte J. Haddox interim CEO and Jimmy A. Langdon executive vice president and chief operating officer for the c ...

Briefly Noted

November 22, 2016

Drivejoy, a Bengaluru, India-based startup offering mobile maintenance services for two-wheelers, entered an agreement to offer Shell lubricants. Petr ...

Briefly Noted

November 16, 2016

Emersons Automation Solutions acquired FMC Technologies blending and transfer business unit in Chicago, as well as the units engineering and procureme ...

Clarification

November 16, 2016

The Oct. 19 Lube Report included an article about delays in the expansion and upgrade of Luberefs base oil plant in Yanbual-Bahr, Saudi Arabia. Lubere ...

Briefly Noted

November 15, 2016

Atiel (the Technical Association of the European Lubricants Industry) published a new online list of lubricant marketers and base stock refiners that ...

Briefly Noted

November 9, 2016

The Michigan Business Development Program awarded a $250,000 grant to casting lubricants manufacturer Chem-Trend, which is planning to invest $7.7 mil ...

Briefly Noted

November 8, 2016

Hascol Petroleum Ltd.s board of directors informed the Karachi Stock Exchange that it has approved the Pakistani companys plans to build a PKR 1.8 bil ...

Clarification

November 2, 2016

The Chevron announcement in the Oct. 26 Lube Report issues Briefly Noted section should have specified that Chevron Base Oils renewed its contract for ...

Briefly Noted

November 2, 2016

The vacuum fractionation tower for ExxonMobils new hydrocracker in Rotterdam, Netherlands, arrived by barge last week. The company broke ground in Jun ...

Briefly Noted

November 1, 2016

French oil majorTotal Lubricants opened a 460 metric ton lubricants warehouse in Suva, Fiji, which it said is one of its largest in the Pacific region ...

Briefly Noted

October 26, 2016

Chevron Base Oils renewed its contract for European distribution with Daresbury, U.K.-based base oil and additive distribution company Multisol Group. ...

Briefly Noted

October 25, 2016

Apar Industries Ltd.'s chairman and non-executive director, Narendra D. Desai, passed away on Oct. 17, the company informed the Bombay Stock Exchange. ...

Briefly Noted

October 19, 2016

Autocommerce d.o.o. will distribute Hexols lubricants in Montenegro, in southeastern Europe. Brenntag acquired the lubricants business of Tonawanda, N ...

Briefly Noted

October 18, 2016

Indian trade publication Exchange4media reported that the Carat media agency won a renewed contract to support Total Lubricants in several markets inc ...

Briefly Noted

October 12, 2016

Royal Dutch Shells Russian subsidiary started supplying lubricants made at its blending plant in Torzhok, Russia, to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyszstan. Saudi ...

Briefly Noted

October 11, 2016

Chinas Ministry of Environmental Protection announced that guidelines expected later this year would require companies using more than 10 kilograms pe ...

Publisher’s Letter

October 11, 2016

I am very pleased to announce that Joe Beeton has been appointed editor of Lube Report Asia, our online newsletter covering the lubricants industry in ...

Briefly Noted

October 5, 2016

RelaDyne acquired Utah-based Cardwell Distributing, which distributes lubricants, fuels and diesel exhaust fluid from locations spanning Colorado, Ida ...

Valvoline IPO Closes

October 5, 2016

Ashland and Valvoline said Sept. 28 that Valvolines initial public offering of 34.5 million shares of its common stock closed at a price to the public ...