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April 9, 2014

RBC Capital Markets will review strategic alternatives for Canadian company Newaltas industrial division – which includes its 400 b/d API Group ...

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April 2, 2014

Calumet Specialty Products Partners is acquiring Tulsa, Okla.-based Anchor Drilling Fluids USAs parent company, ADF Holdings, for $235 million. Hought ...

Correction

April 1, 2014

A brief in the March 25 issue incorrectly reported that ISU Exachem was an export agency for a Hyundai Oilbank and Shell joint venture base oil refine ...

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March 26, 2014

Shell yesterday opened an 8,600 square meter, nine-story lubricants and oils technology center in Shanghai, China. Umongo Petroleum Additives will dis ...

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March 25, 2014

Chevron Sri Lanka is building a U.S. $15 million blending plant in Sapugaskanda, Sri Lanka, to replace its existing facility in Kolonnawa. Glander Int ...

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March 19, 2014

Hamburg, Germany-based Helm will handle global marketing and distribution of castor oil to be produced in Mexico by BioFields starting in 2015. Univer ...

Correction

March 18, 2014

An article in the March 4 issue incorrectly stated the category of base oils that will be produced by a plant that Hyundai Oilbank and Shell are build ...

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March 11, 2014

S-Oil will supply API Group II base oils in Geelong, Australia, after reaching an agreement with Australasian Solvents and Chemicals Co., manager of s ...

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March 5, 2014

Chevron Phillips Chemicals International N.V. named Mogoil GmbH distributor for high and low viscosity Synfluid polyalphaolefins in Russia. Hydrodec r ...

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February 25, 2014

Chevron Lubricants Lanka reported that its net profit rose 7.3 percent to 590 million rupees in 2013 as lower costs more than offset a slight drop in ...

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February 19, 2014

Indianapolis-based Polaris Laboratories opened a new laboratory in Poznan, Poland, to provide fluid analysis to European customers. Valvoline will par ...

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February 18, 2014

GS Caltex announced that its lubricant business reported a 12 percent drop in sales and a 26 percent drop in operating profit for 2013, compared to 20 ...

Correction

February 18, 2014

An article in last weeks issue incorrectly stated that Castrol Edge and Sinopec Great Wall Justar engine oils failed a TEOST MHT test conducted by Chi ...

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February 12, 2014

Highlands, Texas-based blender and packager ZXP Technologies named Stephen Davis, who served as executive vice president of operations since 2007, as ...

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February 11, 2014

Spains Cepsa Lubricantes will enter the Chinese market with a five-year renewable agreement to supply lubricants through Spanish automobile distributo ...

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February 5, 2014

Former Tesoro Corp. executive vice president Dan Romasko succeeded Bob Pease – who returned to Shell – as president and CEO of Motiva Ente ...

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January 29, 2014

Tyree Oil acquired Tarr LLCs commercial tank wagon fuel and lubricants business in Portland, Ore. Shell Pakistan will supply lubricants to the Daewoo ...

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January 22, 2014

Biodiesel producerRenewable Energy GroupacquiredSyntroleum, which proposed but never built one of the earliest GTL base oil plants.Koda Distribution G ...

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January 15, 2014

ChemPointbegan distributingChemturas calcium sulfonate complex greases to customers across North America beginning Jan. 13.Tata Motorssales and servic ...

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January 14, 2014

South Koreas SK Lubricants will supply 280,000 barrels per year of factory-fill engine oil and automatic transmission fluid to U.S. automaker General ...