Plants & Equipment

A public-private partnership for waste oil collection and construction of a base oil rerefinery was announced recently by the local government of the ...

As part of a strategy to grab a bigger share of Indonesia’s lubricant market, ExxonMobil plans to double the size of its local manufacturing plant, ...

Citing the opportunity of a growing market, ExxonMobil announced Friday that it will invest nearly Rs 900 crore to build a lubricant manufacturing pla ...

Petrobras has licensed technologies from Chevron Lummus Global for an API Group II base oil plant being built as part of Brazil’s Gaslub project, a ...

Shell has decided not to build an API Group II base oil plant at its Singapore fuels and chemicals complex, according to a Reuters report Thursday. Th ...

Idemitsu Lubricants America Corp. is adding a building to the warehouse space it leases in southern Indiana near its United States blending plant, par ...

French oil major TotalEnergies handed over management of its Russia lubricant business to a Russian entity, and the transaction includes its 40,000 me ...

Germany’s GEA announced today that it will supply equipment toward expansion of Albemarle’s lithium hydroxide processing plant in Western Australi ...

It’s been a year since Russia invaded Ukraine. How has the fallout affected the lubricants market in the region and abroad?

Lubricant analysis is vital for companies looking to keep expensive and vital equipment in the best shape possible. Eurofins TestOil outlines the attr ...

Luberef said Sunday that a previously announced expansion of its base oil plant in Yanbu’ al Bahr, Saudi Arabia, will increase capacity by 230,000 m ...

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

An upgrade of a base oil plant in Fergana, Uzbekistan, is on track for completion by the beginning of 2024, with production scheduled to start later i ...

Handi Boosts Group III Output

February 10, 2023

Handi Sunshine Petrochemical has begun commercial production of API Group III base oils at its expanded base oil plant in Hainan province, China. The ...

ExxonMobil is considering constructing a polyalphaolefin plant in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a recent posting on its website. The posting p ...

French biochemical company Afyren and Thai sugar producer Mitr Phol Group will partner to establish a biorefinery in Thailand that produces biobased c ...

TCL Specialties LLC, a subsidiary of India’s Thirumalai Chemicals Ltd., will break ground this month on two manufacturing facilities in West Virgini ...

In another twist of the Isla Refinery saga, Curacao government officials confirmed the preferred bidder seeking to operate the facility provided sever ...

Azmol and Agrinol, the largest lubricant producers in Ukraine, were taken over by forces aligned with Russia’s occupation of parts of eastern and so ...

China’s largest petrochemical refinery is now fully operating, and maleic anhydride and methyl methacrylates are among the materials it is producing ...