Base Stocks Equipment

Shell to Convert Refinery to Group III Unit

Shell to Convert Refinery to Group III Unit

September 16, 2024

Shell plans to convert a hydrocracker at its Wesseling site into a production unit for API Group III base oil.

The Importance of Equipment Reliability

The Importance of Equipment Reliability

July 1, 2024

Smartcorr explains how equipment reliability can mitigate financial losses, environmental damage and safety hazards.

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Metalub Opens Costa Rica Rerefinery

June 19, 2024

A Costa Rican lubricant company this week opened what it claims to be the first waste lubricant refinery in Central Amer ...

Eneos Pilot Plant Makes Rerefined Oil

Eneos Pilot Plant Makes Rerefined Oil

May 31, 2024

Eneos announced on Wednesday that it has produced rerefined base oil  in a demonstration project, as part of its work i ...

Rerefinery Opens Near Arctic Circle

Rerefinery Opens Near Arctic Circle

December 26, 2023

A base oil rerefinery that opened recently in Severodvinsk, Russia, may not be large, but it appears to be the northernm ...

Latvia Tightens Waste Oil Collection Regs

Latvia Tightens Waste Oil Collection Regs

October 23, 2023

Latvia’s national agency for waste management recently unveiled a campaign to improve handling of waste oil and to str ...

Hill Plans Rerefinery in Lithuania

Hill Plans Rerefinery in Lithuania

June 6, 2023

Kazakhstan’s Hill Group expects to break ground in Lithuania soon on an API Group II base oil rerefinery. The project ...

Avista Partners with IFP Petro in India

Avista Partners with IFP Petro in India

June 2, 2023

India rerefiner IFP Petro Products announced last week that it has entered a partnership with Germany-based Avista Oil A ...

Shell Acquires 49% Stake in Rerefiner

Shell Acquires 49% Stake in Rerefiner

December 7, 2022

Shell announced that its Pennzoil-Quaker State Co. purchased a 49% interest in Blue Tide Environmental LLC, which plans ...

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Recvoil Builds Chile’s First Rerefinery

October 19, 2022

A used oil management organization, in cooperation with fuels and lubricants distributor Enex, broke ground last month o ...

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Blue Tide Plans Texas Rerefinery

September 21, 2022

Blue Tide Environmental – which is developing a network of used motor oil recycling facilities across North America ...

Nynas Launches Rerefined Transformer Oil

Nynas Launches Rerefined Transformer Oil

September 6, 2022

Nynas AB announced last week that it has started to rerefine used electrical transformer oils at its base oil plant in N ...

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Japan to Develop Base Oil Rerefining

September 2, 2022

Eneos Corp. is conducting a two-year study on recycled waste lubricants to help establish supply of rerefined base oil i ...

Japan Explores Base Oil Rerefining

Japan Explores Base Oil Rerefining

August 12, 2022

In an effort to reduce reliance on virgin base oils and to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions, the Japanese government ...

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Vertex Sale to Safety-Kleen Progresses

October 13, 2021

Vertex Energy shareholders voted in favor of its proposed sale of used motor oil collection and recycling assets – inc ...

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Sinopec Starts Dormant Group II Plant

October 8, 2021

Sinopec has finally started up an API Group II base oil unit at its Yanshan Petrochemical refining complex, eight years ...

When Disaster Strikes

When Disaster Strikes

September 1, 2021

From the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic to frequentsevere weather, the past few years have presented noshortage of o ...