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August 9, 2016

Indonesian oil giant PT Pertamina, along with joint venture partner Saudi Aramco, awarded British firm Amec Foster Wheeler a contract to engineer and ...

Correction

August 3, 2016

The July 6 article, Lukoils Lubes Slumped in 2015, listed incorrect 2015 and 2014 base oil and lubricant production volumes. In 2015, Lukoil produced ...

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August 3, 2016

Russias Gazpromneft-Lubricants recently opened its first G-Energy Service branded fast lube station in Hungary. Sonneborn LLC, supplier of white oils, ...

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August 2, 2016

Indonesia'sPertamina Lubricants, after acquiring Thai lubricant blenderAmaco Production Co.in December 2014, last week officially incorporated the ent ...

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July 27, 2016

Audax Private Equity yesterday acquired Ohio-based fuels and lubes distributorRelaDyne from AEA Investors for an undisclosed sum, and will expand it t ...

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July 26, 2016

Malaysian blender Hyrax Oil broke ground last week on its U.S. $13 million plant in Sri Lanka, which it will own and operate jointly with state-owned ...

Correction

July 26, 2016

A brief in last weeks issue incorrectly described the structure of Axel Christiernsson International ABs new subsidiary in Asia, Axel Asia Pte Ltd. Th ...

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July 20, 2016

An explosion Saturday at the hydrocracking unit ofBashneft‘s refinery in Ufa, Russia, killed six and injured two. Base oil and lubricants produc ...

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July 19, 2016

Swedish firm Axel Christiernsson AB set up a subsidiary in Singapore to offer its grease toll blending, research and development, and logistics servic ...

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July 13, 2016

Lanxess Rhein Chemie Additives business increased its capacity to make sulfur carrying compounds at its chemical manufacturing sites in Mannheim, Germ ...

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July 12, 2016

Japanese supplierIdemitsu Kosan Co.sold just shy of 1 million tons of lubricants domestically and abroad in 2015, a record high that it expects to bea ...

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July 6, 2016

Additive supplier Chevron Oronite appointed ABD Energy Solutions Ltd. its distributor and lab and technical support provider in Nigeria. ExxonMobil Fu ...

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June 29, 2016

Gulf Petrochem,of the United Arab Emirates, teamed with Indian engineering firmKirloskar Oil Engines Ltd. to expand marketing of its K-Oil diesel engi ...

Valvoline, Phillips 66, Kleen Performance Products and Omni Industries notified U.S. customers of upcoming price increases on finished lubricants. Fac ...

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June 28, 2016

P&S Market Research found that in 2015,the Asia-Pacific region - and China and India, in particular - held 41 percent of the $567 million global pour ...

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June 22, 2016

Jet-Lube, Inc. moved its headquarters and manufacturing plant from Houston to Rockwall, Texas, and consolidated with fellow specialty chemicals CSW In ...

Correction

June 22, 2016

The article linking to this page incorrectly reported that Safety-Kleen and Enterprise have a new agreement to recycle used lubricants from Enterprise ...

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June 21, 2016

Malaysias Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities said three years of testing have showed B10 biodiesel causing no adverse effects to the en ...

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June 15, 2016

RelaDyne acquired the lubricants division of Hollingsworth Oil Co., which distributes lubricants in Tennessee and Alabama. Acme-Hardesty, a division o ...

Publisher’s Note

June 14, 2016

Lubes'n'Greaseshas launched its new website, LubesnGreases.com, a continuously updated, centralized portal offering a wealth of new and updated featur ...