Brazils National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels raised the minimum performance levels for lubricants sold in Brazil, effective from the ...

MOSCOW – Ukraine consumed 136 million liters and Kazakhstan consumed 42 million liters of engine oils for on-road vehicles in 2015, according to ...

Shell notified U.S. customers this week that prices for its finished lubricants will generally increase by up to 5 percent effective Feb. 20. The comp ...

A turf spat between government agencies has lubricant blenders in Nigeria doing double the paperwork and paying double the fees. Nigerian lube compani ...

In August, GTS Group, a Liaocheng, Shandong province-based chemical producer and the owner of the lube brand Ogistar, delisted itself from the London ...

Japan removed hydraulic fluids, mainly silahydrocarbon oils, from the Export Trade Control Order list of goods, opening the way for exports to begin J ...

Chinas economy may have slowed, but its passenger car population is growing as fast as ever - good news for lubricant suppliers in a market that has s ...

Having resolved internal control concerns raised by its auditors recently concluded review, Tianhe Chemicals Group said it is ready to resume trading ...

Though demand for finished lubricants in Brazil has steadily declined since its peak in 2013, the country can expect modest growth during late 2017, s ...

Russian lube maker Gazpromneft-Lubricants sold 900 tons of finished lubes in Georgia in 2016, or 20 percent more than the year before. The South Cauca ...

After opening its first overseas facility in Vietnam in October to supply clients in Southeast Asia, Dongguan-based metalworking fluids maker Amer wil ...

With Indonesias lubricant manufacturing capacity twice as high as domestic demand, and with imports from within the Asean Economic Community increasin ...

A new supplier is offering reduced prices to try to win Group III base oil customers in India. Industry insiders say such practices could accelerate t ...

Russian oil major Rosneft produced 779,000 metric tons of base oils, finished lubricants and additives combined in 2015, 6 percent more than the year ...

Japan-based Moresco is expanding its market in Asia with a new subsidiary in India this month to manufacture and sell industrial lubricants, the compa ...

A local lubricant and grease association was recently founded in Tianjin, China, a city near Beijing that has attracted a growing number of blenders.

Many Chinese lubricant suppliers spend considerable time trying to figure out how to develop a successful brand in the country's highly homogeneous ma ...

Key drivers for growth of automotive lubricant consumption in Nigeria and South Africa include rising prominence of the middle class population, a sub ...

Shell announced last week that its joint venture Pearl gas-to-liquids plant in Qatar is operating at a reduced rate of production due to unforeseen ma ...

MOSCOW – Russian base oil producers are aiming to add around 1 million metric tons per year of API Group II and III capacity by 2020, according ...