The United States base oil market is still waiting for information about the reopening of the Excel Paralubes plant in Westlake, Louisiana, after Hurr ...

France’s public health agency is conducting a survey to assess health and quality of life impacts of a September 2019 fire at a Lubrizol lubricant a ...

The American Chemistry Council last week extended to Dec. 31 its emergency protocol meant to give companies flexibility to cope with scarcity of autom ...

Refineries in eastern Texas and Louisiana are closing or scaling back operations as an intensifying Hurricane Laura barrels toward the United States.

Global lubricant sales by French energy giant Total S.A. jumped more than 20% in 2019, according to a report that the company published recently.

Joint venture Avista Green announced last week that its new base oil rerefinery in Kalundborg, Denmark was operational. The facility replaces an Avist ...

Chevron and Novvi LLC announced the first production of fully renewable base oil from Novvi’s Deer Park facility in Houston, Texas.

Shell intends to increase the production capacity of its 180,000 tons per year blending plant in Torzhok by 50 percent by 2023, a company official sai ...

Negotiations between Refineria di Korsou and Klesch Group collapsed last week, leaving the tiny island nation once again searching for an operator to ...

ExxonMobil has decided to build its first lubricant blending plant in India, a Rs 760 crore facility in Maharashtra, according to the chief minister o ...

Order volumes for every lubricants market sector, from base oils and additives to finished lubes, dropped by 40% in April and May due to the economic ...

Two energy start-up companies – Houston-based Oil Group Investments and Rio de Janeiro’s EnP – have agreed to study the feasibility of developin ...

India-based Siddharth Grease & Lubes Pvt.’s subsidiary opened a lubricant and grease manufacturing plant in the United Arab Emirates to supply m ...

Chinese refiner Shandong Qinghe Chemical Technology Co. Ltd. is testing its newly completed 600,000 metric tons per year API Group III base oil plant ...

Chinese additives maker Kangtai Lubricant Additives Co. started construction in June on a 50,000 metric tons per year additive manufacturing plant in ...

Caitlin Jacobs gives an overview of global base oil capacity in 2020 and previews how the picture may change after the pandemic has run its course thr ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused serious damage to lubricants markets around the world, but the bigger problem could be the length of time it takes th ...

The lubricant industry has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, and demand could remain depressed at least into 2022, threatening the survival of m ...

A joint venture between Uzbekneftegaz and Russian energy giant Gazprom says it is moving forward with a previously announced revamp of a refinery in F ...

Chinese fuel supplier Bohui canceled plans to build an API Group II base oil plant but has built a facility that produces paraffin wax, according to a ...