Plants & Equipment

ExxonMobils refinery in Rotterdam is on track to open Europes first large-scale API Group II base oil plant during the first quarter of 2019, official ...

Malaysias Petronas Lubricants International will begin production at its lubricant blending plant in India by the end of this year, the company told L ...

Locks Oil & Chemical (Zhejiang) Ltd. recently began operations at its new lubricant blending plant in Chinas Haiyan economic development zone. The com ...

Balmer Lawrie & Co. reported an increase in operating profit, and Tide Water Oil Co. posted a jump in standalone net profit, while both Maximus Intern ...

Lubricant distributor Lube-Tech opened an expansion of its engine testing facility in Golden Valley, Minnesota, this week. The company uses the facili ...

Saudi Aramco and Sabic said they have chosen Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, as the site for a large chemicals refinery that will include a base oil plant. The c ...

Wells Lubricating Oil (Tianjin) Co. announced that it opened a blending plant in Tianjin, China, to support its growing business. The company said it ...

Emirates National Oil Co. announced the conversion of its blending plant in the United Arab Emirates to operate solely on solar energy, making it the ...

British technology company Dyson will build a Singapore electric vehicle factory that will supply the Asia-Pacific region.

R.I.P. Gear Inefficiency

October 23, 2018

An aftermarket product claiming to improve gear efficiency might sound like snake oil, but it could be just what the doctor ordered for power-hungry m ...

Total unveiled its new lubricants blending plant in Kaluga, Russia, Monday, saying it will reduce reliance on imports and cut delivery times both dome ...

11 PLC Expands in Lagos

October 16, 2018

11 PLC, formerly known as Mobil Oil Nigeria, says it is expanding and modernizing its lubricant blending plant in Lagos after a Nigerian company acqui ...

Greif Inc. opened a new multi-million dollar steel drum production plant in Kaluga, Russia, the company announced last week. The facilitys constructio ...

Hydrodec Group plans to exit Australia, birthplace of the technology that it uses to rerefine used electrical transformer fluids.

Gazprom Nefts lubricant blending plant in Omsk, Russia, introduced a packaging line that increases filling capacity and boosts production efficiency, ...

Afton Chemical Corp. said Wednesday that it has completed an expansion of its lubricant additive plant in Singapore and that it expects to start produ ...

The lubricant arm of Russian oil giant Lukoil amped up its entry into China last year by catering to an economic project that is extending westward ou ...

ExxonMobil will open a new hub terminal in Valencia, Spain in the first quarter of 2019, the company announced last week in a press release, part of a ...

Specialty chemicals company Lanxess is doubling its production of multifunctional dimercaptothiadiazole derivative lubricant additives by adding a pro ...

Japans Mitsui Chemicals plans to build a second plant in Japan for the production of its ethylene alpha olefin viscosity modifiers, according to a pre ...