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 ...

A crossover test will allow quick, easy and inexpensive grease particle counts  An industry working group is nearing completion of a fast, sim ...

Gen III Oil Corp. announced on Monday that it has contracted Koch Project Solutions to provide engineering, construction and licensed vendor teams for ...

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

Three lubricant brands and two manufacturers of plastic containers announced yesterday the formation of the National Lubricant Container Recycling Coa ...

An Australian court last week ruled in favor of Australian rerefiner Southern Oil Refining in its litigation against transformer oil rerefiner Hydrode ...

Picture a refinery and you probably think of the endless industrial landscape of the Texas Gulf Coast, not the rolling hills and pine forests of Anato ...

While the novel coronavirus pandemic has impacted the lubricants industry in some unexpected ways—by motivating some lube manufacturers to temporari ...

The parent company of SK Lubricants is looking for partners for base oil and chemical joint ventures, according to a New Year’s address by its CEO. ...

There are approximately 120 large fuels refineries worldwide that produce base oils as part of their overall product slates and about another 20 integ ...

A small API Group I base oil rerefinery opened last week in Amur Oblast in the Russian Far East, the region’s government announced.

Russian oil major Tatneft’s Taneco refinery overhauled several units as part of a project aimed at enabling it to make 6 centistoke API Group III b ...

A key test for evaluating the lubricity of metal removal fluids has been retired and a new one screwed into place in January, reported Dennis Mahoney ...

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 ...

Used oil collection in Italy nearly recovered to pre-pandemic levels during the three months ended in August, according to the National Consortium for ...

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

A Minnesota company formerly known as Rational Energies changed its name last month to Rational Resource and announced that it is switching its busine ...

Heritage-Crystal Clean’s oil business segment reported lower revenue for the third quarter, while WD-40 posted higher net income and revenue for the ...

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. plans to construct a 235,000 metric ton per year base oil plant at its Gujarat, India, refinery as part of a petrochemical and l ...

Transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec announced it is forming a joint venture with a U.S. company that recycles electrical transformers and other utility ...