Turkey’s only base oil plant is likely to resume production once Tupras restarts its Izmir refinery on July 1. Operations at the refinery, which inc ...

A French Senate inquiry last week blasted local and regional governments’ response to the September 2019 blaze at a Lubrizol lubricant additive fact ...

Pertamina disclosed last week that Saudi Aramco has withdrawn from discussions about a plan to jointly expand the Indonesian energy company’s refine ...

As China slowly reopens its economy, domestic lube suppliers see survival at the top of the agenda and are using promotional events and new distributi ...

One of Azerbaijan’s few lubricant producers is a three-year-old start-up that is using just a fraction of its manufacturing capacity. But Technol of ...

Registrations for sales of new passenger cars, trucks and buses fell 29 percent in April, compared to a year earlier, according to data released on Ma ...

The economic crises created by the Covid-19 pandemic will probably trigger an overdue consolidation of global base oil capacity, an official from Solo ...

India’s Manikaran Power Ltd. and Australian mining company Neometals are conducting a feasibility study for what would be India’s first lithium re ...

Rerefiners in North America are feeling the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in the form of reduced demand for their base oil and finished lubes, alon ...

The Malaysian state of Sabah allowed palm oil plantations and mills to reopen last month after setting conditions aimed at preventing the spread of Co ...

GP Petroleums Ltd. and Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. announced the reopening of blending plants in India, after receiving permission from local autho ...

Shipments of castor oil derivatives are flowing from India once again, easing availability of popular grease additives after supplies were constrained ...

Several major and independent lubricant marketers have reduced prices on finished products in the United States in recent weeks. Industry insiders sai ...

Tatneft has finished building a lubricants blending plant at the site of its Taneco refinery in Nizhnekamsk, Russia, and plans to start operations in ...

Industry observers believe the Covid-19 pandemic could reduce lubricant demand at least as much as the Great Recession of 2008 did, though they expect ...

Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns in Asia have resulted in increased demand for food-grade lubricants, industry insiders said.

Southwest Dingsheng Energy plans to build a base oil rerefinery in Xi Feng County, Guizhou province. A local government environmental assessment was r ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. will close a lubricants plant in New Jersey and furlough manufacturing employees at a Missouri synthetic lubr ...

Three lubricant industry associations in the United States petitioned India’s government last week to approve the export of castor oil derivatives s ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused automakers around the world to temporarily close factories, and this will reduce demand for factory fill lubricants a ...