Finished Lubricants Equipment

The Dongfeng Castrol Oil Products Co. Ltd. joint venture announced early last month the first batch trial lubricants production at its 170,000 metric ...

Until recently, energy savings have been marginal and difficult to achieve without compromising finished lubricant quality. Now two new manufacturing ...

Oleochemical producer Oleon acquired a blending plant in Conroe, Texas, the company announced this week. Oleon’s esters are used in lubricants, incl ...

Shell Expands Indonesia Plant

November 11, 2022

Shell completed an expansion that more than doubles the size of its lubricant blending plant on Indonesia’s Java island, raising capacity to 300 mil ...

U.S. Lubricants is now operating at its Baltimore, Maryland, facility it acquired from BP in January, the company announced, having now blended its fi ...

Russian independent lubricant maker Cupper plans to build a lubricant blending plant in Dzershinsk, in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod oblast. The project ...

Seven weeks into Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the number of foreign businesses vowing to leave Russia or scale back there continues to grow ...

China National Offshore Oil Corp. is finalizing plans for a large base oil expansion at its refinery in Taizhou, Jiangsu province – part of an effor ...

U.S. Lubricants purchased a lube blending facility in Baltimore, Maryland, from BP, the company announced this week. U.S. Lubricants, which is based i ...

Vanol Opens Plant in Dubai

October 19, 2021

Vanol FZE is preparing to unveil a lubricant blending plant in Dubai with capacity of 75,000 metric tons per year, a launch pad for its plan to enter ...

Shell broke ground last week on the new building and storage facility that will house the capacity expansion of its 180,000-tons-per-year blending pla ...

African Fuels & Lubricants Manufacturing Ltd. of the Tristar Group will blend, distribute and market Chevron Brands International LLC’s Caltex l ...

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 obstacles for the lubricants in ...

GP Global disclosed recently that it has tabled plans to build a lubricant blending plant in Saronda, India, because of economic uncertainties stemmin ...

Total has decided to expand its three-year-old lubricant blending plant in Russia, stating that it is taking the action after a steady ramp-up in prod ...

Gazpromneft-Lubricants boosted the production capacity of its Moscow lubricants blending plant by 50% and introduced a significant level of automation ...

Gazpromneft-Lubricants has taken control of and plans to expand NIS’s blending plant in Novi Sad, Serbia, to boost its presence and product sales in ...

The United State Environmental Protection Agency awarded a $300,000 grant recently to a New Jersey university that will try to help ExxonMobil reduce ...

Making a Clean Transition

October 1, 2020

Today’s lube manufacturers blend hundreds of different products on the same equipment, necessitating periodic flushing to prevent cross-contaminatio ...

Fluor Corp. announced on Sept. 15 that it safely achieved mechanical completion of Valvoline’s lubricants blending plant in Zhangjiagang, China, ahe ...