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

The COVID-19 pandemic was the biggest news in any industry in 2020, but the region’s lubricant markets had plenty of other significant happenings, f ...

Portuguese energy company Galp said yesterday that it will close the smaller of its two refineries – a facility in Matosinhos, Portugal, that includ ...

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

As part of an initiative to decarbonize its refining operations in Singapore, Royal Dutch Shell plans to permanently close its base oil plant in Pulau ...

German lubricants producer Oest Group has installed tanks with capacity to store 480,000 liters of raw materials at its blending plant in Freudenstadt ...

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 ...

Lanka IOC said recently that it expects to complete construction of Sri Lanka’s first grease plant by the end of this year and that the 3,000 metric ...

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 ...

Gazprom Neft is continuing with a project to add API Group II and III capacity to it refinery in Omsk, Russia, but the site has already begun making l ...

A lubricant additive factory that ExxonMobil operates on behalf of Infineum is wrapping up an expansion of a facility that makes detergent components.

Refiners in the United States produced 25.9 million barrels of base oils in the first half of 2020—10% below what they churned out from January to J ...

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 ...

OQ Chemicals – formerly Oxea – recently completed an expansion at its site in Oberhausen, Germany, increasing its isononanoic acid global producti ...

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