Expansions & Upgrades

Challenge the Status Quo: Operations Excellence for Plant Design and Operation
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Challenge the Status Quo: Operations Excellence for Plant Design and Operation

August 1, 2024

An industry veteran describes how lubricant blenders can challenge conventional thinking to better satisfy their needs n ...

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Saneg Targets Group I to Europe

June 11, 2024

Uzbekistan’s Saneg said it aims to increase its base oil sales by directly targeting the European market, asserting it ...

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Kluber Expands India Lubes Plant

May 24, 2024

Kluber Lubrication announced it will expand its factory in Mysore, India, to increase the amount of specialty lubricants ...

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Oronite to Boost China Output

May 24, 2024

Chevron Oronite announced Wednesday its final investment decision to expand its lubricant additive facility in Ningbo, i ...

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Novel Sets Up Blending in the U.S.

March 20, 2024

Novel Reliable Technologies announced it is expanding its presence in North America with blending and warehouse capabili ...

India’s Base Oil Supply Base Set to Jump

India’s Base Oil Supply Base Set to Jump

January 5, 2024

India’s total base oil production capacity is set to jump in the next few years due to expansions by state-owned oil c ...

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Lanxess Completes Sulfur Carrier Expansion

December 19, 2023

Lanxess completed an expansion at its Mannheim, Germany, factory of production capacity for sustainable light-color sulf ...

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Sintec Expands Grease Plant

December 5, 2023

Russian lubricant producer Sintec Group recently doubled the size of its grease plant, increasing production capacity to ...

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Petrol Ofisi Expands Blending Plant

November 21, 2023

Energy company Petrol Ofisi announced recently that it is expanding its lubricant blending plant in Kocaeli, Turkey, inc ...

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ExxonMobil Launches LAO Production

September 20, 2023

ExxonMobil on Tuesday announced the startup of two new chemical production units at its Baytown, Texas manufacturing fac ...

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PIB Expansion Planned at Ludwigshafen

August 8, 2023

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

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Belarus Additives Joint Venture Expands

July 18, 2023

Additech, a lubricant additive joint venture between the Russian and Belarus oil majors Lukoil and Naftan, expanded its ...

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Haldia Base Oil Expansion Due by December

June 16, 2023

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

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Luberef Boosting Yanbu Output

June 13, 2023

Luberef has contracted to increase the amount of feedstock supplied to its base oil plant in Yanbu’al Bahr, Saudi Arab ...

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BASF Increases Alkoxylation Capacity in Europe

June 13, 2023

BASF is gradually adding alkoxylation capacity – in part to produce chemicals with uses in lubricants – at its plant ...

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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 ...