Plants & Facilities

Vickers Opening Food-grade Lube Plant

Vickers Opening Food-grade Lube Plant

February 6, 2024

Vickers Oils announced it has built a lubricant blending plant in the Leeds, United Kingdom, area dedicated to productio ...

Hongrun White Oil Project includes Group III Plant

Hongrun White Oil Project includes Group III Plant

February 2, 2024

Hongrun Petrochemical Technology Co. has commissioned a white oil project that includes an API Group III plant at its oi ...

Eni to Shutter Livorno Base Oil Plant

Eni to Shutter Livorno Base Oil Plant

January 30, 2024

Italian refiner Eni stated Monday that the base oil plant at its Livorno, Italy, fuels refinery will close permanently w ...

Shell to Produce Group III in Germany

Shell to Produce Group III in Germany

January 30, 2024

Shell last week announced plans to convert a fuels refinery in Wesseling, Germany, to produce API Group III base oils. T ...

Sinopec Lubricants Progresses on Tianjin Facility

Sinopec Lubricants Progresses on Tianjin Facility

January 19, 2024

Sinopec’s finished lubricant arm has completed the main parts of the first phase of an expansion and upgrade of its fa ...

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Richful Announces Project Delays

January 12, 2024

Richful Lube Additive Co. last month announced delays for two major projects – the upgrading of a lubricant additives ...

Agreement Aims to Restart Curacao Refinery

Agreement Aims to Restart Curacao Refinery

January 10, 2024

Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. and the owner of Refineria Isla have reached an agreement resolving a debt dispute and re-es ...

India’s Base Oil Supply Base Set to Jump

India’s Base Oil Supply Base Set to Jump

January 5, 2024

India’s total base oil production capacity is set to jump in the next few years due to expansions by state-owned oil c ...

VMPAvto Opens Small Blending Plant

VMPAvto Opens Small Blending Plant

January 2, 2024

Russian lubricant maker VMPAvto, recently opened a small factory in Saint Petersburg’s heavily industrialized Kirovsky ...

Base Oils Said Unaffected by Porvoo Conversion

Base Oils Said Unaffected by Porvoo Conversion

January 2, 2024

Neste announced it will convert its Porvoo, Finland, crude oil refinery to process renewable feedstocks, but that change ...

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Richful Receives Warning from Securities Bureau

December 29, 2023

Richful Lube Additive Co. disclosed this week that it received a warning from securities officials who concluded that so ...

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Base Oil Capacity: Plants

December 28, 2023

The world’s 12 largest base oil refineries account for more than a quarter of the world’s base oil capacity. With th ...

Graphene Manufacturer Opens Australia Plant

Graphene Manufacturer Opens Australia Plant

December 22, 2023

Graphene Manufacturing Group Ltd. commissioned a natural gas-to-graphene production plant in Richlands, Australia, that ...

Lanxess Completes Sulfur Carrier Expansion

Lanxess Completes Sulfur Carrier Expansion

December 19, 2023

Lanxess completed an expansion at its Mannheim, Germany, factory of production capacity for sustainable light-color sulf ...

UMW Moves to Bigger Plant

UMW Moves to Bigger Plant

December 8, 2023

Independent toll blender UMW Lubetech Sdn. has increased its production capacity by more than two-thirds to 60 million l ...

Sintec Expands Grease Plant

Sintec Expands Grease Plant

December 5, 2023

Russian lubricant producer Sintec Group recently doubled the size of its grease plant, increasing production capacity to ...

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Arteco Builds Coolants Factory in China

December 1, 2023

Citing opportunity in the booming electric vehicle market, Belgium-based Arteco announced recently that it is building a ...

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BASF-YPC Makes Ethanolamines in China

November 24, 2023

Sinopec and BASF recently inaugurated the downstream expansion of their petrochemicals joint venture in Nanjing, China ...