ExxonMobil’s entry into the linear alpha olefin market has been delayed as a large expansion of the company’s Baytown, Texas, petrochemical comple ...

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. said this week that it will build a large maleic anhydride plant at its oil refinery in Panipat, India, part of a broader progra ...

A Malaysian joint venture between BASF and Petronas will double its capacity to make 2-ethylhexanoic acid due to growing demand in applications such a ...

Lanxess said this week that it will expand its output of aminic antioxidants for lubricants at a chemical factory in Taiwan. The German chemical compa ...

ExxonMobil Synthetics today announced plans to expand the production capacity of its metallocene high viscosity polyalphaolefin plant in Baytown, Texa ...

U.S. Base Oil Production Continues on the Path to Recovery The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on United States base oil production during the firs ...

In the Eye of the Storm One of the unrelenting concerns for base oil market participants over the past several months was the fact that both buyers ...

Kazakhstan is working on several new petrochemical refining projects carrying a combined price tag of U.S. $12 billion, and some of them – including ...

Chinese grease producer Hengmei Technology Grease Co. still plans to establish a lubricant blending plant in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province as part ...

The search for a new operator for the Isla Refinery in Willemstad, Curacao, may be on once again as the government’s patience wears thin with its la ...

The United States lubricant industry seemed to largely dodge a major scare as facilities along the Gulf of Mexico coast appeared to have avoided serio ...

From the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic to frequentsevere weather, the past few years have presented noshortage of obstacles for the lubricants in ...

Stalled negotiations are once again threatening Refineria di Korsou’s years-long search to find a new operator for the Isla Refinery in Willemstad, ...

An operator of a chain of automobile maintenance stores announced last week that it has opened one of the largest privately owned lubricant blending p ...

Automobile distributor Ifad Group was recently allotted 30 acres in a Bangladesh industrial park where it plans to build a manufacturing complex that ...

Axel Christiernsson Group announced on July 15 that it is proceeding with an additional expansion and improvement plan across its three grease plants ...

GP Global disclosed recently that it has tabled plans to build a lubricant blending plant in Saronda, India, because of economic uncertainties stemmin ...

France’s Ministry of Ecology last week implemented a system giving increased regulatory scrutiny to industrial sites that have had accidents or a hi ...

The COVID-19 pandemic—and other factors, like severe weather—forced temporary shutdowns in a variety of industries. Because of this downtime, valu ...

Local firefighting officials said last week that a June 14 blaze that heavily damaged a Chemtool grease plant in Rockton, Illinois, was triggered by a ...