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 ...

ExxonMobil is still mum on the cause and effect of a massive fire last week at its large refinery and chemical facility in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but ...

New disruptive technologies have a direct impact on the lubricant industry, but one in particular is grabbing headlines. Industry insiders question wh ...

Traffic through the Houston Ship Channel remains backlogged following a three day chemical fire at Intercontinental Terminal Co.s Deer Park, Texas, te ...

Chevron Phillips Chemical has declared force majeure on its polyalphaolefin and metallocene PAO produced in North America, due to impacts of Hurricane ...

Motiva declared force majeure yesterday on base oils produced at its plant in Port Arthur, Texas, indicating that deliveries of all grades will be dis ...

A week after Hurricane Harvey stopped drenching the U.S. Gulf Coast, there were signs of good news for the lubricants industry as refineries containin ...

Base oil and additive plants along Texas Gulf Coast stand idle as Hurricane Harvey brought record flooding to one of the worlds highest concentrations ...

Avista Oil stopped production at its API Group I base oil rerefinery in Kalundborg, Denmark, last week following a fire on July 24. The investigation ...

Shell announced last week that its joint venture Pearl gas-to-liquids plant in Qatar is operating at a reduced rate of production due to unforeseen ma ...

A fire devastated a motor oil warehouse in Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan, the countrys emergency situation ministry reported. The warehouse ...

One person was killed and four others injured by an explosion last week at a metalworking fluids and chemicals complex operated by Ivhimprom in Ivanov ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. confirmed a worker at its Shreveport, La., facility died from injuries suffered in an incident at the site la ...

Axel Americas manufacturing plant in Rosedale, Mississippi is operating at normal capacity after repairing damage that a Feb. 29 fire caused to new pr ...

A fire erupted at Axel Americas LLCs manufacturing facility in Rosedale, Miss., on Feb. 29, damaging recently installed process equipment. The company ...

Fire last week at distributor Tekhnorynok Avtomasels warehouse in Bryansk injured none, but caused possibly several million rubles in damage, accordin ...

BASF last week announced the discovery of a half-ton WWII-era U.S. bomb at its Ludwigshafen, Germany site, which has multiple plants producing chemica ...

U.S. demand for drilling fluids is expected to increase 5.2 percent per year to $6.8 billion in 2019, driven by growth in the number and depth of well ...

Fire broke out Monday at distributor Santie Oils Sikeston, Mo., location, causing possibly several million dollars in damage. All employees were evacu ...

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