Freezing temperatures and heavy snow blanketed large swaths of the United States and Canada this week, knocking out power, disrupting transportation a ...

Co-developed by Tongyi Lubricants, the group standard “Technical Specification for Green Design Product Assessment of Degradable Lubricants for Hydr ...

Liz Cisneros, base oils technology manager at Motiva Enterprises, has been appointed chair of the American Petroleum Institute (API) Base Oil Intercha ...

ExxonMobil has begun construction on a major expansion of API Group III base oil production at its Baytown complex in Texas. The expansion is aimed at ...

The South Coast Air Quality Management District is proposing to phase out the use of p-chlorobenzotrifluoride and tert-butyl acetate in metalworking f ...

Base oil activity proceeded at a moderate pace this week, partly dampened by the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday on Jan. 19, with suppliers not ...

ILSAC GF-8 engine oil development teams are continuing work on the next passenger car engine oil category for North America, with a target market intr ...

The European Union’s 18th package of sanctions on Russia will have little effect on base oil markets or revenues, according to a senior base oil tra ...

With few definite indications whether lubricant demand will strengthen in the next few weeks, Asian buyers have taken a wait-and-see approach and were ...

The geography, quality and scale of global base oil supply has fundamentally changed over the past two decades. Global production capacity has swollen ...

The sustainability movement is viewed as a big opportunity for businesses offering biolubricants — a stimulator of government policy and business an ...

Are we close to the long-anticipated point where chemical safety laws and market expectations become incompatible at an accessible cost? Lubricant for ...

Gleanings from the Industry The process of making lubricants is basically the same regardless of location: Blend base oils with chemical additives ...

HF Sinclair Corp. completed the acquisition of Industrial Oils Unlimited, closing a U.S.$38 million transaction first announced in December 2025. The ...

January is generally considered a transitional month in that both buyers and sellers assess inventories and product needs for the coming months, with ...

Trading in Asia’s base oils market was expected to pick up the pace against a background of growing geopolitical tensions on several fronts. Some of ...

In an open letter from the Union of the European Lubricant Industry (UEIL) to the European Commission, the union’s president, Mattia Adani, warns th ...

Ingevity has completed the sale of its North Charleston, South Carolina crude tall oil refinery and most of its Performance Chemicals Industrial Speci ...

Saudi Arabian base oil refiner Luberef and national oil company Saudi Aramco are evaluating the feasibility of an API Group III base oil manufacturing ...