ExxonMobil on Tuesday announced the startup of two new chemical production units at its Baytown, Texas manufacturing facility, including a linear alph ...

Fuchs Group opened a 20,000 metric tons per year lubricants blending plant in Vietnam to serve growing demand in the region and to speed its response ...

Petronas announced Wednesday that it has agreed with Pertamina to explore the possibility of the companies building a base oil plant at Pertamina’s ...

Gazprom Neft’s new 220,000 metric tons per year Group II and III base oil production in Omsk is scheduled to start streaming by the end of September ...

A waste oil rerefinery and lubricant manufacturing complex will be constructed in Mersin province in southeastern Turkey, the local government said in ...

Jax Lubricants has completed construction of a new headquarters and a factory expansion that increases its lubricants and greases production capacity, ...

The Curacao government has received interest from at least 15 companies to operate the Isla Refinery, the director of the search said to a local outle ...

Aiming to offer replacements for foreign products, Chaoshui Technology Co. last week formally opened a metalworking fluid production facility with cap ...

BASF will expand its capacity to produce medium-molecular weight polyisobutenes at its Verbund petrochemical refinery in Ludwigshafen, Germany, in res ...

Chinese lubricant blender Shengbaolu Petrochemical Co., known as Sarlboro, recently completed construction of and commissioned its second blending pla ...

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

A public-private partnership to build a rerefinery capable of producing base oils was announced recently during an event in St. Petersburg, Russia. Th ...

Additech, a lubricant additive joint venture between the Russian and Belarus oil majors Lukoil and Naftan, expanded its production capacity to 40,000 ...

Sentuo Group is scheduled to begin commissioning its new refinery in Tema, Ghana, next month, bringing sub-Saharan Africa a step closer to again havin ...

The march of China companies stepping into the polyalphaolefin business continues, as acrylic acid producer Satellite Chemical recently disclosed plan ...

Russia’s only polyalphaolefins complex now can also produce polyalkylene glycols and complex esters, after completing an expansion that included a r ...

BP and Shell have decided not to repair their damaged Sapref joint venture, signaling that the Durban, South Africa, refinery – which includes the l ...

A competition court in Brazil today approved Grepar Participacoes’ acquisition of the Lubnor refinery from Petrobras – a decision intended as the ...

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

Luberef has contracted to increase the amount of feedstock supplied to its base oil plant in Yanbu’al Bahr, Saudi Arabia – a change that will boos ...