Lubricant demand in China has jumped so much in recent years that some now deem it the worlds biggest market, surpassing the United States. The countr ...

Tide Water Oil Co., Sah Petroleums and Apar Industries Ltd.s oils segment all reported significant drops in profitability for the quarter ended Dec. 3 ...

Huntsman Corp. will double capacity at its polyetheramines plant in Jurong Island, Singapore, to 50,000 tons per year by mid-2016.

SK Lubricants posted a fourth-quarter operating profit of 71.4 billion South Korean won (U.S. $65 million), up 26.4 percent from 56.5 billion won in 2 ...

Sasol will delay the final investment decision on a 96,000 barrels per day gas-to-liquids plant in Louisiana as part of a plan to conserve cash in res ...

Russian automotive lubricants consumption is poised to grow around 3 percent annually, reaching as much as 563,000 tons in 2020, a study by consultanc ...

CleanOil Investment and Hong Kong conglomerate Jebsen Group announced last week the formation of a joint venture to build a used lubricant rerefinery ...

Taiwans CPC Corp. entered a joint venture with Hexing Chemical and Uni-Shine Chemical Corp. to build a lubricant blending plant in Dong Nai Province, ...

South Koreas SK Lubricants revenue rose marginally in 2014, but its operating profit shot up dramatically from 2013. Indias Gulf Oil Lubricants also m ...

Imports and exports didn't always play a vital role in the U.S. base oil and lubricants markets. But these volumes have more than doubled since 2002 - ...

Colas Group plans to stop base oil production at its plant in Dunkerque, France, around the end of March, a company source confirmed to Lube Report. T ...

Russian oil major Lukoil started an expansion of its lube manufacturing plant in Vienna to bolster its logistics and supply base in Central and Wester ...

Shells first lubricant blending plant in Indonesia will be fully operational by 2016, a company spokesman told Lube Report Asia.

Automobile production in Japan increased 1.5 percent in 2014, as stronger domestic sales offset a significant drop in exports, the Japanese Automobile ...

S-Oils base oil business posted operating income of 258 billion won (U.S. $234 million) for 2014, a 66 percent surge from 2013.

Malaysian conglomerate UMW Group aims to penetrate Southeast Asian markets with its new line of lubricants and is targeting overall lube sales of 100 ...

Vivo Energy, owner of Shells former downstream operations in Ghana, is striving to regain its license to operate there after losing it for failure to ...

Trucking fleet operators are conservative about switching to lighter engine oils, but one of the countrys largest – Ryder Systems Inc. – h ...

Russian lube marketer Gazprom Neft Lubricants announced the opening of its first G-Energy Service-branded auto service center in Russia, part of its b ...

It is no secret that building an extensive sales network is essential for achieving significant sales in China, a massive yet highly fragmented market ...