The Houston ship channel reopened yesterday, returning to full operations for the first time since a fire at Intercontinental Terminal Co.s Deer Park, ...

Shandong Weifang Shida Changsheng Energy Technology Co. opened Chinas newest base oil plant recently - an API Group II facility in the city of Weifang ...

Tatneft plans to open a 200,000 tons per year lubricants blending plant at its Taneco refinery site in Nizhnekamsk, Russia, according to the companys ...

A refinery in Ballsh, Albania, and its associated API Group I base oil plant has been idled since January because of irregular crude oil supply.

ExxonMobil is not finished building new Group II capacity nor with expanding its operations in Singapore. Not by a long shot.

Flooding along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers has forced Midwest lubricant companies to fall back on contingency plans for shipping as railways b ...

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

Russian refining joint venture Slavneft reported that the API Group III portion of its Yaroslavl base oil plant ramped up to full production of 100,00 ...

Lanxess completed a 15 percent expansion to its global production capacity of corrosion inhibition additives, which are used in a number of products - ...

ExxonMobil announced Thursday that its new base stock plant in Rotterdam has begun commercial production, marking the opening of Europes first large-s ...

Castrol India Ltd. plans to expand its Silvassa blending plant by 50 percent by 2021 to adapt to the changing landscape of the Indian lubricant indust ...

Hill Corp. recently finished building a used oil rerefinery and a small grease unit at its lubricant blending plant in Shymkent, in southern Kazakhsta ...

Biskra, Algeria-based Sarl Sopremac opened a lube oil blending plant in Algeria that has already begun production of multigrade motor oils and industr ...

Russian chemical producer Orgkhim expanded its process oil production in Uren, Nizhny Novgorod, from 110,000 tons per year to 130,000 t/y by adding a ...

BASF increased lubricant antioxidant capacity at its Puebla, Mexico, site to keep up with growing demand for additives that lengthen the life of lubri ...

Oxea released additional details yesterday about its previously discussed plan to increase production capacity of carboxylic acids, which are used for ...

Shepherd Chemical Co., a producer of metal-based lubricant additives, announced a multi-million dollar expansion that could double capacity at its Mir ...

Feiya Chemical Co. has opened a factory in Chinas Jiangsu province to produce lubricant antioxidants on behalf of BASF. The plant was built under a te ...

Kraton Corp. last month lifted its force majeure declaration for its North American tall oil fatty acid and distilled tall oil product lines. The comp ...

An upgrade of Indonesias base-oil-producing Cilacap refinery has been delayed due to ongoing negotiations for the formation of a joint venture between ...