Plants & Facilities

Local government in Tianjin, China, suspended port traffic following Wednesdays deadly warehouse explosions at the northeast China industrial zone, wh ...

Indias Tide Water Oil Co. is gearing up to enter South African and Sudanese markets, license sales of its products in Bangladesh, and to relaunch its ...

Malaysias Emery Oleochemicals plans to expand its biolubricant business globally with partnerships, acquisitions and expansion of existing sites in Ma ...

MOSCOW-Russian oil major Tatneft and subsidiary Nizhnekamskneftekhim announced plans to restart polyalphaolefins production at its plant in Nizhnekams ...

Royal Dutch Shell said it has not yet left the Pandacan Oil Depot in Manila, despite the passing of a deadline set by local government.

Hainan Handi Sunshine Petrochemical Ltd. is moving forward again with a previously stalled plan to build another base oil plant at the site of its exi ...

A Hydrodec subsidiary leased a 9-acre site in northwest United Kingdom for use in the first phase of its planned 75 million liters per year API Group ...

The global base oil market is mired in a surplus that grows larger with every expansion and new plant opening. So when Hrnd decided to expand its East ...

Rafinerija ulja Modrica recently launched a new blending plant in Modrica, northern Bosnia and Herzegovina. The 13 million (U.S. $14.2 million) blendi ...

Solvay recently began producing specialty surfactants at its new alkoxylation plant in Singapore, which it said is the largest of its kind in Asia.

Fire broke out Monday at distributor Santie Oils Sikeston, Mo., location, causing possibly several million dollars in damage. All employees were evacu ...

Ukrainian lube maker Aviks Group recently launched a 9,000 metric tons per year grease production plant near Lipetsk, Russia, the company confirmed to ...

Industrial lubricants manufacturer Isel Inc. of Florida recently opened a new distribution hub in Columbus, Ohio. We do production via micro-batch, so ...

Russian chemical producer Orgkhim will break ground on its extender process oils plant in Malaysia by the end of this year, the company told Lube Repo ...

In its first public comments about the decision to close its Nizhny Novgorod base oil plant, Lukoil said it shut the facility because of dwindling dem ...

Ineos Oligomers will build a unit at its La Porte, Texas, polyalphaolefin plant that will produce 20,000 metric tons per year of high-viscosity PAO up ...

Luberefs Yanbual Bahr, Saudi Arabia, refinery expansion – which will add 700,000 metric tons per year of API Group II base oil and increased bri ...

Total announced the opening Friday of a 310,000 metric ton per year blending plant in Singapore - the French energy giants largest lubricant productio ...

Calumet Specialty Products and MDU Resources Group marked the completion of their Dakota Prairie diesel fuels refinery this week, noting that its outp ...

Laugfs Lubricants Ltd. will launch a 17,000 metric tons per year blending plant near Colombo, Sri Lanka, in July.