Sichuan province-based Zhonghai Jinxiang Co. plans to build a facility that will make base oils for industrial lubricants using feedstock from an exis ...

Total announced that it will build a grease plant at its lubricant factory in Tianjin, China. The new plant will have capacity to make 5,000 metric to ...

Nynas announced last week the opening of a 32,000 cubic meter storage depot in Singapore, part of a plan to grow its naphthenic base oil business in t ...

Sinopec plans to increase its activities in Cameroon – including production and sale of lubricants – through the creation of a new subsidi ...

Allegheny Petroleum Products last week opened a blending plant in Houston that will initially produce fuel additives and soon industrial lubricants. B ...

Lubrizol Corp. said it is wrapping up $65 million in investments aimed at expanding and improving efficiency at its lubricant additive blending plant ...

Tatneft started commercial production of API Group II and III base oils at its refinery in Nizhnekamsk, Russia, the company told Lube Report last week ...

Chinese base stock supplier Hainan Handi Sunshine Petrochemical Co. must delay plans to expand its refinery on Yangpu Peninsula due to land disputes w ...

Chevron Lubricants Lanka PLC inaugurated a 45 million liter blending plant and warehouse complex in Sapugaskanda, Sri Lanka, last week.

Undaunted by a global supply glut, petrochemical producer Hengli Petrochemical Refinery Co. has decided to enter the base oil market, undertaking to b ...

Union workers began a 72-hour strike Monday at Totals refinery in Gonfreville, France, over the companys plans to modernize its specialties offerings ...

The opening of the first waste oil rerefinery in Central Asia has been delayed for administrative reasons, Bulgarian lube maker Prista Oil told Lube R ...

Chemicals producer Cetex is nearing completion of a two-phase expansion of methyl ethyl ketone capacity at its chemical plant in Chennai, India. MEK i ...

Total plans to shut down API Group I production at its base oil plant in Gonfreville, France, to focus on production of higher quality base oils for u ...

SKF inaugurated its expanded lubrication systems manufacturing facility in the Czech Republic on Nov. 19. The expansion created an additional 200 jobs ...

Working to emerge from a financial crisis, Chinese lubricant marketer DongHao Oil Group is receiving financial support from distributors and planning ...

Mumbai-based transformer oils supplier Apar Industries Ltd. said its subsidiary in Singapore, Petroleum Specialities Pte. Ltd., will construct a facil ...

ExxonMobil Chemical completed testing to confirm the 50,000 metric tons per year capacity for its new metallocene polyalphaolefin synthetic lubricant ...

Lubricants and metalworking fluids manufacturer and distributor Eastern Oil Co. completed a 10,000 square foot facility expansion and renovation proje ...

Transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec has settled with its insurers on a $20 million claim following the fire damage its Canton, Ohio, rerefinery incurre ...