Plants & Facilities

Petrol Ofisi Expands Blending Plant

Petrol Ofisi Expands Blending Plant

November 21, 2023

Energy company Petrol Ofisi announced recently that it is expanding its lubricant blending plant in Kocaeli, Turkey, inc ...

Ingevity to Close Crude Tall Oil Fatty Acid Plant

Ingevity to Close Crude Tall Oil Fatty Acid Plant

November 8, 2023

Ingevity announced last week that it will close by mid-2024 its Deridder, Louisiana, processing plant, which produces cr ...

Eneos Shutters Wakayama Refinery

Eneos Shutters Wakayama Refinery

October 26, 2023

Eneos Corp. this month permanently closed its crude oil refinery in Arida city, Wakayama prefecture, Japan, including it ...

Azmol-BP Shifts to Georgia, Uzbekistan

Azmol-BP Shifts to Georgia, Uzbekistan

October 17, 2023

Lubricant maker Azmol-British Petrochemicals has transferred its production activities to Georgia and Uzbekistan after l ...

Lukoil Plans Additives, Lubricants Plants

Lukoil Plans Additives, Lubricants Plants

October 3, 2023

Lukoil’s lubricant arm intends to build two production facilities at its refining complex in Volgograd, Russia – one ...

Suprotec Plans Grease, Metalworking Fluid Plant

Suprotec Plans Grease, Metalworking Fluid Plant

September 26, 2023

Russian automotive chemicals producer Suprotec announced plans for a grease and metalworking fluids manufacturing ventur ...

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McDonch Opening Lube Plant in China

September 22, 2023

McDonch Petrochemical Co. announced on Sept. 1 it will soon open the first phase of a blending plant in Tianjin, China, ...

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ExxonMobil Launches LAO Production

September 20, 2023

ExxonMobil on Tuesday announced the startup of two new chemical production units at its Baytown, Texas manufacturing fac ...

Fuchs Opens Vietnam Blending Plant

Fuchs Opens Vietnam Blending Plant

September 15, 2023

Fuchs Group opened a 20,000 metric tons per year lubricants blending plant in Vietnam to serve growing demand in the reg ...

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Petronas and Pertamina Mull Base Oil Venture

September 15, 2023

Petronas announced Wednesday that it has agreed with Pertamina to explore the possibility of the companies building a ba ...

Omsk to Stream Group II, III in September

Omsk to Stream Group II, III in September

September 6, 2023

Gazprom Neft’s new 220,000 metric tons per year Group II and III base oil production in Omsk is scheduled to start str ...

Rerefinery and Lube Factory Planned in Turkey

Rerefinery and Lube Factory Planned in Turkey

August 29, 2023

A waste oil rerefinery and lubricant manufacturing complex will be constructed in Mersin province in southeastern Turkey ...

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Jax Opens New Headquarters in Wisconsin

August 23, 2023

Jax Lubricants has completed construction of a new headquarters and a factory expansion that increases its lubricants an ...

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Conditions Eased for Potential Isla Operator

August 16, 2023

The Curacao government has received interest from at least 15 companies to operate the Isla Refinery, the director of th ...

Chaoshui Opens Metalworking Fluid Production

Chaoshui Opens Metalworking Fluid Production

August 11, 2023

Aiming to offer replacements for foreign products, Chaoshui Technology Co. last week formally opened a metalworking flui ...

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PIB Expansion Planned at Ludwigshafen

August 8, 2023

BASF will expand its capacity to produce medium-molecular weight polyisobutenes at its Verbund petrochemical refinery in ...

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Chinese Blender Commissions Second Plant

July 28, 2023

Chinese lubricant blender Shengbaolu Petrochemical Co., known as Sarlboro, recently completed construction of and commis ...

Chevron Expands Group III Output in Richmond

Chevron Expands Group III Output in Richmond

July 26, 2023

Chevron said Sunday that it began making 4 centiStoke API Group III base stocks this month at its refinery in Richmond, ...