The state of Oregon issued $30,400 in fines to a quick lube and a plumber for intentionally discharging an oily mixture into a creek in late 2012. Bot ...

Russian oil major Gazprom Neft posted a 10 percent increase in combined base oil and lubricant production in 2013 compared to the previous year and in ...

Northern Oils has proposed a lubricants blending plant in Moray, on a harbor in northeast Scotland. The distributor claims it would be the countrys fi ...

Base stock production in Japan rose 3.6 percent in 2013 to 2.5 million kiloliters, according to data released recently by the countrys Ministry of Eco ...

The Japanese Automotive Standards Organization is working on a two-year schedule to update specifications for both two- and four-stroke motorcycle eng ...

The practice of selling counterfeit lubricants appears to be alive and well in China. Authorities say supply chains of criminals are widening and that ...

JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp., a Japanese petroleum giant, signed a memorandum of understanding to set up a joint venture with Indian lubricant manufac ...

Gabriela Wheeler finds only lukewarm demand in the U.S. base oil market.

Warren Oil is suing Smittys Supply Inc. for trade dress and trademark infringement on its automatic transmission fluid sold in Bolivia, alleging that ...

Petronas faces new duties of 3.7 percent on base oil exports to the European Union after adjustments to the EUs trade policy caused Malaysia to lose p ...

SK Lubricants and Pertamina plan to expand their API Group III base oil plant in Dumai, Indonesia by 50 percent next year. An official with the South ...

Competition appears to be heating up in South Korea's lubricant market with Hyundai Oilbank's entry into the scene. The refiner is still ramping up it ...

Consumers in the Indian state of Delhi pay a significant price for a 21 percent value added tax that the government assesses on lubricants. Lubricant ...

Russian oil major Lukoil started supplying marine lubricants in bulk quantities to a key Black Sea port in southwest Russia. Lukoil Marine Lubricants ...

LONDON – SK Lubricants, unlike most other industry players, predicts an API Group III base oil deficit by 2017, and will expand Group III+ outpu ...

The bazaar may be an ancient part of commerce in India, but the countrys lubricant industry appears to be discovering it once again. Insiders say supp ...

Chinese demand for machine tools will grow more than 9 percent annually for the next four years, according to forecasts by a United States industry re ...

Shell agreed last week to sell downstream operations in Australia to Swiss energy trader Vitol. The transaction includes lubricant sales activities bu ...

Russian lube maker Gazprom Neft Lubricants has signed a factory-fill and lubricant supply deal with Rostselmash, a major manufacturer of agricultural ...

Russias automotive gear oil consumption could surge 27 percent to 79,400 metric tons by 2018, largely due to a boost in passenger car sales, a market ...