Plants & Facilities

Trescorp Alliance Pte., a Singaporean trader of oil and petroleum products, plans to establish a lubricant park in Sohar Port, Oman, a company officia ...

KLK Expands Esters Capacity

October 10, 2017

Malaysias KLK Oleo Sdn increased its ester production capacity by 40 percent with the completion of a new plant in Klang, Malaysia.

Lubrizol opened its new drumming facility and warehouse in Painesville Township, Ohio, as part of the Wickliffe, Ohio-based companys five year, $100 m ...

Indias largest car manufacturer, Maruti Suzuki, has launched the Ecstar brand of lubricants and coolants in the country, a move that may intensify com ...

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

Nynas Bullish on India

September 19, 2017

Nynas AG is upbeat about its growth in India, a local representative confirmed. The Swedish naphthenic base stock producer is looking to expand throug ...

Mendeleev Will Rerefine in 2018

September 13, 2017

Russias historic Mendeleev fuel refinery and lubricant plant resumed operations last month after a two-year production halt, and the embattled enterpr ...

Motiva Declares Force Majeure

September 13, 2017

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 ...

Indonesian lubricant blenders might be turning their sights to Vietnam due mainly to the growth potential of its automobile engine oil market, observe ...

Refineries Move to Reopen

September 6, 2017

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 ...

Gazprom Neft last week commissioned a process oil production unit at its refinery in Omsk, Western Siberia. The U.S. $7 million plant has 17,000 metri ...

JX Nippon Oil & Energy plans to expand lubricants capacity and distribution channels in Thailand, Lube Report Asia learned during an interview last we ...

Competition is set to intensify among Indian white oils suppliers with Indian Oil Corp. Ltd.s entry in the market, as the state-run company is not onl ...

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

Innov Oil completed an expansion at its Singapore lube additives plant - a project aimed at helping it meet growing demand for its olefin copolymer vi ...

State-owned Chinese chemical company Sinochem will sell lubes as early as the end of 2017, said Li Junfeng, deputy general manager at Sinochem Lantian ...

Castrol India Ltd. said Indias transition to the Goods and Services Tax system was a major reason for its 33 percent drop in profit during its second ...

Tianhe Chemicals Group reported Friday that it has finished building a plant that would upgrade base oils to API Group II and III base oil but that it ...

Ineos Oxide, a branch of international chemical company Ineos, plans to construct new units to produce an array of oxo chemical derivatives, the compa ...

Indonesian lubricant blender PT Federal Karyatama opened a plant this month that will replace its two existing factories, CEO Patrick Adhiatmadja told ...