Local and international brands are competing for a share of Tanzanias thriving lubricant market. Heres a look at the prospects and challenges in the s ...

LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigerian lubricant blenders proposed a unified body to enforce standards and meet the demands of original equipment manufacture ...

Chevron U.S.A. Inc.s Brazilian affiliate has established the companys first API Group II base oil supply hub in South America. Located at Rio de Janei ...

VOLGOGRAD, Russia – Russian grease maker Intesmo pledged to reduce Russias reliance on imported grease and to also export its grease products du ...

Tianhe Chemicals has been suspended from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange after Anonymous Analytics accused it last week of fraud.

As Indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi bolsters national energy projects, the countrys transformer oil manufacturers expect a significant hike in dema ...

Newly formed Sinopec Lubricant Co. has yet to set a date for its anticipated initial public stock offering, but observers expect Sinopec to announce t ...

Caltex Australia announced yesterday that it will invest AU $5 million to construct and expand lubricant storage facilities at multiple locations. Off ...

A recent IPO infused the native Chinese additive company with $654 million, a key milepost on its path to becoming a billion dollar global contender.

LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. will partner with a local blender to enter the finished lubricants market in October, an NNPC ...

Russian state-owned oil giant Rosneft signed a partnership with the countrys largest auto maker, Avtovaz, which includes factory fill, industrial lube ...

Investments in oleochemicals projects in Malaysia have more than doubled during the first five months of 2014, the Malaysian Investment Development Au ...

Lubricants sales have dropped approximately 40 percent in north and central India, partly due to monsoon flooding during July and August, according to ...

Lukoil said it will halt construction of its blending plant in Kazakhstan due to the countrys restrictions on base oil imports and lubricant exports.

Russias Gazprom Neft Lubricants and Rostselmash, a major manufacturer of agricultural machinery, introduced a line of new lube products. Branded as Ro ...

North Korean leader Kim Jonguns recent highly publicized visit to a blending plant brought rare attention to the nations lubricant industry.

Major Japanese lubricant companies, Idemitsu Kosan Co. and JX Nippon & Energy Corp., are following Japanese automobile manufacturers expansions in Tha ...

Malaysia will postpone its B5 biodiesel mandate for the whole country to the end of the year, according to the Ministry of Plantation Industries and C ...

The worlds fifth-largest additives supplier, Tianhe Chemicals, is building a facility that will output API Group II and III base oil.

Industrial Finance Finland STR Ltd. purchased the Hamina, Finland, rerefinery formerly owned by bankrupt Finnish rerefiner L&T Recoil Oy, and pla ...