Plants & Equipment

SK Lubricants is reconsidering plans to expand their API Group III base oil joint venture in Dumai, Indonesia, a company official told Lube Report Asi ...

JV Builds Rerefinery in Zhuhai

February 10, 2015

CleanOil Investment and Hong Kong conglomerate Jebsen Group announced last week the formation of a joint venture to build a used lubricant rerefinery ...

CPC, Partners Enter Vietnam

February 10, 2015

Taiwans CPC Corp. entered a joint venture with Hexing Chemical and Uni-Shine Chemical Corp. to build a lubricant blending plant in Dong Nai Province, ...

Colas Group plans to stop base oil production at its plant in Dunkerque, France, around the end of March, a company source confirmed to Lube Report. T ...

Russian oil major Lukoil started an expansion of its lube manufacturing plant in Vienna to bolster its logistics and supply base in Central and Wester ...

Shell to Blend in Indonesia

February 3, 2015

Shells first lubricant blending plant in Indonesia will be fully operational by 2016, a company spokesman told Lube Report Asia.

Malaysian conglomerate UMW Group aims to penetrate Southeast Asian markets with its new line of lubricants and is targeting overall lube sales of 100 ...

Klueber Expands in Qingpu

January 27, 2015

Sister companies Klueber Lubrication and Chem-Trend will expand their manufacturing facilities in Qingpu, China, parent Freudenberg Chemical Specialit ...

Shell recently opened a gas-to-liquid base oil hub in Jebel Ali in the United Arab Emirates, making its first delivery in late December. It is the com ...

Oronite Upgrades Abound

January 14, 2015

Chevron Oronite announced that it doubled detergent capacity at its plant in Gonfreville, France, that it will build a carboxylate production facility ...

Chevron Oronite announced yesterday that it will install carboxylate capacity at its lubricant additive plant in Singapore.

Shandong Yuangen Petrochemical announced it is setting up operations to produce its Yuangen brand of lubricants in Singapore for distribution througho ...

Base Oils from Bitumen

December 30, 2014

Sichuan province-based Zhonghai Jinxiang Co. plans to build a facility that will make base oils for industrial lubricants using feedstock from an exis ...

Total announced that it will build a grease plant at its lubricant factory in Tianjin, China. The new plant will have capacity to make 5,000 metric to ...

Nynas announced last week the opening of a 32,000 cubic meter storage depot in Singapore, part of a plan to grow its naphthenic base oil business in t ...

Sinopec Expands in Cameroon

December 17, 2014

Sinopec plans to increase its activities in Cameroon – including production and sale of lubricants – through the creation of a new subsidi ...

Allegheny Opens Houston Plant

December 17, 2014

Allegheny Petroleum Products last week opened a blending plant in Houston that will initially produce fuel additives and soon industrial lubricants. B ...

Lubrizol Corp. said it is wrapping up $65 million in investments aimed at expanding and improving efficiency at its lubricant additive blending plant ...

Tatneft started commercial production of API Group II and III base oils at its refinery in Nizhnekamsk, Russia, the company told Lube Report last week ...

Handi Postpones Expansion

December 9, 2014

Chinese base stock supplier Hainan Handi Sunshine Petrochemical Co. must delay plans to expand its refinery on Yangpu Peninsula due to land disputes w ...