Plants & Equipment

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Report Sees Dual Sustainability Roles for Lubes

August 2, 2023

Like businesses in many industries, lubricant companies are busy looking for ways to reduce amounts of greenhouse gases ...

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Chinese Blender Commissions Second Plant

July 28, 2023

Chinese lubricant blender Shengbaolu Petrochemical Co., known as Sarlboro, recently completed construction of and commis ...

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Chevron Expands Group III Output in Richmond

July 26, 2023

Chevron said Sunday that it began making 4 centiStoke API Group III base stocks this month at its refinery in Richmond, ...

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Rerefinery Planned in Russia’s Tula Oblast

July 18, 2023

A public-private partnership to build a rerefinery capable of producing base oils was announced recently during an event ...

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Belarus Additives Joint Venture Expands

July 18, 2023

Additech, a lubricant additive joint venture between the Russian and Belarus oil majors Lukoil and Naftan, expanded its ...

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New Ghana Refinery Will Make Base Oils

July 18, 2023

Sentuo Group is scheduled to begin commissioning its new refinery in Tema, Ghana, next month, bringing sub-Saharan Afric ...

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Satellite Plans Another PAO Plant in China

July 7, 2023

The march of China companies stepping into the polyalphaolefin business continues, as acrylic acid producer Satellite Ch ...

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TAIF Plant Now Makes Esters, Polyalkylene Glycol

July 5, 2023

Russia’s only polyalphaolefins complex now can also produce polyalkylene glycols and complex esters, after completing ...

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BP, Shell Will Not Repair Sapref

July 4, 2023

BP and Shell have decided not to repair their damaged Sapref joint venture, signaling that the Durban, South Africa, ref ...

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Court Approves Sale of Lubnor Refinery

June 21, 2023

A competition court in Brazil today approved Grepar Participacoes’ acquisition of the Lubnor refinery from Petrobras ...

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Haldia Base Oil Expansion Due by December

June 16, 2023

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd.’s expansion of its Haldia base oil plant is on track to be completed by the end of this year – ...

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Luberef Boosting Yanbu Output

June 13, 2023

Luberef has contracted to increase the amount of feedstock supplied to its base oil plant in Yanbu’al Bahr, Saudi Arab ...

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BASF Increases Alkoxylation Capacity in Europe

June 13, 2023

BASF is gradually adding alkoxylation capacity – in part to produce chemicals with uses in lubricants – at its plant ...

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Indian Oil Enters Joint Venture in Nepal

June 9, 2023

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. and Nepal’s Golchha Group signed a joint venture agreement to manufacture lubricants in the Himi ...

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Hill Plans Rerefinery in Lithuania

June 6, 2023

Kazakhstan’s Hill Group expects to break ground in Lithuania soon on an API Group II base oil rerefinery. The project ...

Avista Partners with IFP Petro in India

Avista Partners with IFP Petro in India

June 2, 2023

India rerefiner IFP Petro Products announced last week that it has entered a partnership with Germany-based Avista Oil A ...

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Algerian Distributor Opens Blending Plant

May 30, 2023

Aiming to serve what it describes as a vibrant Algerian transportation market, petroleum products distributor Petro Bara ...

Change Abounds for Additives

Change Abounds for Additives

May 26, 2023

What did demand for additives look like last year, and how might that outlook shift in the coming years?