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

API Group II base oils will continue to be used in many applications for years to come, despite the move towards vehicle electrification, Laura Pottor ...

Gazpromneft-Lubricants’ new 220,000 metric tons per year API Group II and III base oil plant is almost completed, with assembly works about to wrap ...

Singapore-based United Oil Co. and Repsol are proceeding with a previously announced plan to expand their joint venture lubricant plant in Indonesia, ...

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

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

Once more, supply and demand do not match in the North American base oil market. What has caused the imbalance?

The global base oil market has been through a lot since 2020. How has it weathered the storm?

The Sinarmas Cepsa Pte joint venture will expand production of biobased chemicals at its fatty alcohol plant in Indonesia, under an agreement announce ...

BRB International announced last week the opening of a lubricant additives factory in Echt, Netherlands, a facility that will serve as the Petronas su ...

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 ...

Plans for a rerefinery in Tampa, Florida were on the books for so long, the industry could be forgiven for considering the plan a mirage. However, Pur ...

Aimed at being the leading producer of industrial naphthenic lubricants and petroleum asphalt cement in Brazil, Grepar Participações Ltda seeks to s ...

Eneos Corp. closed the API Group I base oil plant at its Negishi refinery near Tokyo this month, part of a decision to permanently close most of the r ...

Richful Lube Additive Co. has proposed investing ¥1 billion (U.S. $138.3 million) to expand its lubricant additive factory in Xinxiang, China, instal ...

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 ...

A used oil management organization, in cooperation with fuels and lubricants distributor Enex, broke ground last month on what will be the first used ...

Russian independent lube maker Nordoil plans to expand its lubricant production site near Moscow to help fill the supply shortage caused by the exodus ...

ExxonMobil is upgrading its lubricant blending plant in Tianjin, China, in response to projected long-term demand growth from Chinese customers, the c ...

BASF announced on Tuesday it will invest an undisclosed amount to build a neopentyl glycol plant with 80,000 metric tons per year capacity at its new ...