Citing improved market conditions, Luberef said Tuesday that it is considering keeping open its API Group I base oil plant in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, wh ...

Residents were evacuated from a blaze and fluid leak into Guanabara Bay at the Moove lubricant factory near Rio.

Pilot Chemical Co. said last week that it will significantly expand its capacity to produce anionic surfactants at its specialty chemical factory in M ...

Calumet said last week that it expects a net loss for the fourth quarter of 2024 once its yearly results have been given the rubber stamp.

Mitsubishi Chemical Corp., part of the Japanese industrial giant Mitsubishi, axed plans to open a 350,000-metric-tons-per-year methyl methacrylate pla ...

Hyundai and Shell Base Oil has pushed up run rates at its API Group II base oil plant in Daesan, Korea.

Domestic base oil demand in the United States has steadily declined over the past two years, pushing suppliers to boost exports in order to keep the m ...

Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd is investing U.S.$551 million on expanding base stocks production at its Mumbai refinery, the company announced.

Cerilon, the start-up company working to build North America’s first gas-to-liquids base oil plant, said Tuesday that it has obtained one of the fin ...

Brazilian lube company Vibra completed expansion works of its Lubrax lubricant plant in Duque de Caxias to the tune of $16.55 million.

Nigerian energy company Ardova has opened a sparkling new lubricant blending plant in Apapa, a district of the capital Lagos.

A lot goes into running a successful lubricant plant, but good leadership might be the most important factor.

An investigation is ongoing into the cause of a fire at Axel Royal’s Tulsa factory last Tuesday. The blaze sent plumes of black smoke into the air, ...

Oil giant ExxonMobil will fork out U.S.$200 million on expanding recycling operations at its Beaumont and Baytown refineries in Texas. The company ...

View from Banting, Malaysia, site of Pentas Flora’s waste oil rerefinery.

Emerson’s Izzy Rivera outlines some essential strategies designed to optimize return on investment in maintenance.

TPC announced its chemical plant in Houston has increased its capacity to make di-isobutylene, in response to growing demand from refrigerant lubrican ...

British oil major Shell’s plans to convert a hydrocracker at its Wesseling, Germany, refinery into a production unit for API Group III base oil now ...

ExxonMobil is opening a new supply terminal in Dagenham, United Kingdom, providing an extension in the supply chain for its API Group II base oil plan ...

The state’s acquisition of the Sapref refinery in Durban could revive local base oils production in South Africa’s import-dependent lubricant mark ...