Plants & Equipment

Uzbekistan’s Saneg said it aims to increase its base oil sales by directly targeting the European market, asserting it has improved the quality of i ...

Cerilon announced that it is moving into the front-end engineering and design phase of the gas-to-liquids refinery it plans to build in North Dakota, ...

OQ Chemicals announced on May 29 it lifted its force majeure declaration for all products from its German plants in Oberhausen and Marl.

Eneos announced on Wednesday that it has produced rerefined base oil  in a demonstration project, as part of its work in a government-commissioned st ...

Verbio SE recently started construction of a large-scale ethenolysis plant using rapeseed oil methyl ester at a site in Germany to manufacture large q ...

Kluber Lubrication announced it will expand its factory in Mysore, India, to increase the amount of specialty lubricants that it makes locally and to ...

Chevron Oronite announced Wednesday its final investment decision to expand its lubricant additive facility in Ningbo, in China’s Zhejiang province, ...

Russian company Industrial Projects expressed intentions last week to build a lubricant blending plant in the Rostov oblast, according to a May 20 new ...

Bulgaria’s Caspian Lubricants Recycling announced plans to invest in a new base oil rerefinery near Baku, Azerbaijan, according to the state Agency ...

Lukoil’s refinery in Volgograd, Russia, was struck again Sunday by a drone attack that caused a fire and reportedly damaged a key unit.

A joint venture led by Indonesian chemical company Chandra Asri has agreed to buy Shell’s fuels and petrochemical refining complex in Singapore – ...

OQ Chemicals today announced the restart of production at its German plants in Oberhausen and Marl after overcoming a recent disruption at a raw mater ...

Longtime industry player Ganesan Ganapathi explains how operations excellence is the cornerstone of successful plant design.

A ground-up mixture of drained plastic motor oil canisters can be used as a construction additive in road pavement materials typically made of bitumen ...

Major Chinese blenders believe investing in differentiation, efficiency and expansion is the only way to attract big clients, speakers said at a side ...

Angolan energy company Etu Energias and Malaysian lube marketer Glide Technology Sdn announced they will form a joint venture to develop a lubricant b ...

A Ukrainian drone last week struck the Taneco refinery in Nizhnekamsk, which has an API Group II and Group III base oil plant – the third attack on ...

Lukoil broke ground recently on a grease, metalworking fluids and lubricant additives production facility in Volgograd.

China National Offshore Oil & Gas signed an agreement last month to build a large blending plant in Taizhou, Jiangsu province, significantly incre ...

Rosneft’s refinery in Novokuybyshevsk, Russia, was targeted by Ukrainian drone strikes twice last week, the latest in an ongoing campaign against Ru ...