Plants & Equipment

Lube Formulation, Tribology Draw Young People

Lube Formulation, Tribology Draw Young People

May 24, 2023

Lubrication formulation and tribology face a number of pressing challenges, and this is helping attract young people to ...

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Taif’s PAO Plant Upgrade Completed

May 23, 2023

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

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Bharat to Build Another Blending Plant

May 19, 2023

In a nod to India’s growing lubricant market, Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. said this week that it will construct a new ...

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Spain Maintains Waste Lube Recycling Rate

May 16, 2023

Spain in 2022 once again rerefined more than three-quarters of its collected used oil back into base stocks, according t ...

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Amsoil Acquires Industrial Lube Blender

May 10, 2023

Superior, Wisconsin-based Amsoil Inc. acquired fellow Wisconsin lube blender Benz Oil, the companies announced on Monday ...

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Moresco to Relocate China Lubes to New Plant

May 5, 2023

Specialty lubricant manufacturer Moresco Corp has started construction of a plant in Haining city, Zhejiang province, in ...

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Blending Plant Opened in Turkmenistan

May 5, 2023

An industry association in Turkmenistan recently opened a finished lubricant factory, according to a news release by the ...

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Two Blending Plants Announced in Turkey

May 2, 2023

Petronobel Mineral Oils San and Tic A.S. announced plans last week to build a lubricant blending plant in an industrial ...

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Search for Isla Operator Restarts Yet Again

April 26, 2023

The Curacao government is again going back to step one in its effort to find a replacement operator for the Isla Refiner ...

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Terpel Invests in Peru Blending Plant

April 19, 2023

Colombian oil and gas company Terpel is making investments to expand production capacity at its blending plant in Peru, ...

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Small Rerefinery Being Built in Turkey

April 18, 2023

A public-private partnership for waste oil collection and construction of a base oil rerefinery was announced recently b ...

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ExxonMobil to Expand Indonesia Blend Plant

April 14, 2023

As part of a strategy to grab a bigger share of Indonesia’s lubricant market, ExxonMobil plans to double the size of i ...

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ExxonMobil to Build Blending Plant in India

April 7, 2023

Citing the opportunity of a growing market, ExxonMobil announced Friday that it will invest nearly Rs 900 crore to build ...

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Chevron Lummus Gets Contracts for Gaslub

April 5, 2023

Petrobras has licensed technologies from Chevron Lummus Global for an API Group II base oil plant being built as part of ...

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Shell Scratches Singapore Group II Plans

March 31, 2023

Shell has decided not to build an API Group II base oil plant at its Singapore fuels and chemicals complex, according to ...

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Idemitsu Expands in the U.S.

March 29, 2023

Idemitsu Lubricants America Corp. is adding a building to the warehouse space it leases in southern Indiana near its Uni ...

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TotalEnergies Relinquishes Russia Plant

March 14, 2023

French oil major TotalEnergies handed over management of its Russia lubricant business to a Russian entity, and the tran ...

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Aussie Lithium Hydroxide Plant Expands

March 10, 2023

Germany’s GEA announced today that it will supply equipment toward expansion of Albemarle’s lithium hydroxide proces ...