Shell on Friday announced the opening of its new 30,000 metric tons per year grease plant in Zhuhai, in Chinas Guangdong province. The grease plant, ...

Lubricating Specialties Co. has completed the startup phase of its new blending and packaging facility in Azusa, Calif. The company also promoted Sydn ...

Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd. and Hyundai Oilbank yesterday confirmed plans for a new 650,000 metric tons per year API Group II base oil plant in Daesan, S ...

China National Offshore Oil Co. recently signed a contract to license Chevron Lummus Globals technology for a 400,000 metric tons per year API Group I ...

Sea Horse Petrochemicals, one of Turkeys biggest lubricant marketers, recently broke ground on a new 600,000 tons per year blending plant, boasting it ...

Additive maker R.T. Vanderbilt Co. yesterday announced a new organization structure, and that it plans to complete the $30 million expansion of its Mu ...

Oxea has expanded production capacity for carboxylic acids, and it will increase hydrogenation capacity to offer a broader range of higher alcohols. T ...

Gulf Western Oil is investing more than AU $10 million (U.S. $9.8 million) to construct a lubricants blending facility in Australia that will have 60 ...

Freudenberg North America anticipates hiring more employees and investing in capital expenditures over the next two years in New Hampshire, including ...

SINGAPORE – The worlds largest single-unit API Group III base oil plant, SK Lubricants 26,000 barrel per day joint venture with JX Energy, start ...

Independent lubricant blender Fuchs Petrolub plans a A.$5 million expansion in Australia of its Sunshine facility and a major redevelopment of its New ...

ExxonMobil plans to expand the corporate campus it is building north of Houston to accommodate an additional 2,000-plus employees presently working at ...

Spains Repsol YPF changed its name to Repsol S.A. after Argentinas nationalization of YPF, and indicated a base oil expansion project at its Cartagena ...

Specialty hydrocarbon producer Calumet will expand its Indianapolis corporate headquarters and in the process create 48 new positions by 2015. With ...

Capital expenditures at Lubrizol Additives will likely top $300 million this year and $250 million in 2013, the company’s president told a recen ...

HollyFrontier may add API Group III base oil production using black wax crude oil at its Woods Cross, Utah, refinery, and the project would take three ...

National Refinery Ltd. expects to start up a refinery expansion in Pakistan by 2016 that will produce 4,500 barrels day of base oil and 40,000 barrels ...

MOSCOW – Lukoil and Russian Railways formed a joint venture and will invest 1 billion rubles (U.S. $316 million) in a grease production plant ex ...

Opet-Fuchs will build a blending plant in Turkey expected to open in 2013, with initial capacity of 50,000 metric tons per year. The joint venture, es ...

Oryx Oil and Gas has opened its second lubricant blending plant in Africa. The new 18,000-metric-ton facility is located in the Togo port city of Lome ...