British energy giant Shell is considering building an API Group II base oil unit at its refinery on Singapore’s Pulau Bukom island, apparently at le ...

The pandemic wreaked havoc on the base oil market, but rerefiners may have emerged stronger than ever.

The COVID-19 pandemic led to sharp changes in base oil pricing and margins. Will the market settle into a new post-pandemic norm, and what might that ...

China overtook the United States in 2021 as the country with the most base oil refining capacity. What contributed to its rise?

Eneos Corp., said this week that it will close its refinery in Wakayama, Japan – which includes a base oil plant – by 2023. Combined with previous ...

A start-up research and development company has begun building a demonstration plant in East China that is designed to make metallocene polyalphaolefi ...

After years of reduced production, Mexico’s government wants state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos to raise its output of base oil, part of a strategy to ...

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 ...

Residents in proximity to Lubrizol’s lubricant additive plant in Rouen, France, experienced elevated incidence of mood disorders such as anxiety and ...

A leading fuel retailer in southern Vietnam is dipping its toe into the lubricants business as it searches for ways to continue growing. NSH Petro pla ...

Employees at ExxonMobil’s Beaumont, Texas, refining complex and lubricant manufacturing plant completed an election last week on a request to decert ...

Poland’s Lotos Group recently awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract for an upgrade and expansion of its base oil plant in Gd ...

The board of directors of Japan’s KH Neochem Co. decided on Dec. 27 to invest ¥9.5 billion at its manufacturing plant in Ichihara City, Chiba Prefe ...

ExxonMobil’s Baytown, Texas, refinery – site of the second-largest base oil plant in the United States – is operating at reduced rates following ...

The rise of electric vehicles has a few lubricant companies looking to branch into aspects of EVs that have nothing to do with lubes. Now a Chinese su ...

France-based Arkema announced on Monday a 50% increase in global capacity for its Oleris castor oil derivatives, which are used in synthetic lubricant ...

ExxonMobil’s entry into the linear alpha olefin market has been delayed as a large expansion of the company’s Baytown, Texas, petrochemical comple ...

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. said this week that it will build a large maleic anhydride plant at its oil refinery in Panipat, India, part of a broader progra ...

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 ...

A Malaysian joint venture between BASF and Petronas will double its capacity to make 2-ethylhexanoic acid due to growing demand in applications such a ...