Plants & Facilities

Heritage Crystal Clean on Jan. 26 announced startup of the second phase of its rerefinery in Indianapolis and its plants first production of API Group ...

NexLube Takes Next Step

February 1, 2012

NexLube Tampa expects its rerefinery and blending plant project in Florida, scheduled to open in 2013, will produce white oils as well as three API Gr ...

More Base Oil for Pakistan

February 1, 2012

National Refinery Ltd. expects to start up a refinery expansion in Pakistan by 2016 that will produce 4,500 barrels day of base oil and 40,000 barrels ...

Laugfs Lubricants Ltd. of Sri Lanka plans to set up its own blending plant in Hambantota port, on the southeastern end of the island nation. The anno ...

Lubrimetal of Italy will invest $1.9 million over the next three years developing a manufacturing facility in North Carolina for production of wet and ...

MOSCOW – Lukoil and Russian Railways formed a joint venture and will invest 1 billion rubles (U.S. $316 million) in a grease production plant ex ...

Opet-Fuchs will build a blending plant in Turkey expected to open in 2013, with initial capacity of 50,000 metric tons per year. The joint venture, es ...

Oryx Expands in West Africa

January 18, 2012

Oryx Oil and Gas has opened its second lubricant blending plant in Africa. The new 18,000-metric-ton facility is located in the Togo port city of Lome ...

Petroplus Holdings AG is closing its Petit Couronne, France, refinery this month, including its 7,300 barrels per day base oil plant, to cut costs. P ...

A federal judge in Louisiana sentenced the city of Pineville to a $15,000 fine and one year unsupervised probation Jan. 4 for the illegal discharge of ...

Mobil lubricants marketer MAL Pakistan is building an Rs 300 million (U.S. $3.3 million) lube oil blending plant in Karachi, Pakistan. The projects f ...

Henkel last week informed the 89 employees at Acheson Colloids Port Huron, Mich., plant that the site will close at the end of 2010, due to severe und ...

OAO LukOil and local government officials took part in an official opening last week for the second stage of a motor oil packaging terminal at the Per ...

Prista Expands Grease Plant

November 24, 2004

Bulgarian lubricants maker Prista Oil significantly expanded grease production at its plant near the nations capital, the company told Lube Report. Th ...

BioAmber is nearing completion of its plant in Sarnia, Ontario, where it will produce 30,000 metric tons per year of succinic acid, and a portion will ...