Russian lubes producer Gazprom Neft-SMs automotive lubricants sales soared in 2011, boosted by new high-end products for domestic and international ma ...

Despite a plague of refinery outages and a year-end slowdown, U.S. refiners turned out almost 62 million barrels of base oil last year. That’s a ...

Emirates National Oil Co. inaugurated its 105,000 metric tons per year lubricants and grease plant on Monday in Fujairah Port in the United Arab Emira ...

Rosneft and Russian automaker Avtovaz signed a fuels and lubricants procurement contract that could lead to development of new lubricants in Russia. ...

LONDON – With the help of lubricants ally BP Castrol, Ford has created a proprietary engine oil for its innovative 1.0-liter, three-cylinder Eco ...

Brazils Cosan announced last week it is acquiring U.K.-based Comma Oil and Chemicals Ltd., staking a foothold in the European lubricants and specialti ...

Mared Iraqiya, a member of Malia Group, will distribute Shell Lubricants products in Iraq. Iraq is an important market for Shell, said Amr Adel, gene ...

Fuchs Petrolub AG posted 2011 earnings of 183 million (U.S. $240.7 million) on full-year sales revenue of 1.7 billion, up from 2010 earnings of 172 mi ...

Cortec launched a new Middle East joint venture with its regional distributor United Corrosion Technologies to supply corrosion inhibitors in the regi ...

Infineum yesterday said it will begin construction of a new salicylate manufacturing facility at its Jurong Island, Singapore, site in the first quart ...

Pertamina, Indonesias national oil company, has appointed Tengyu Trading (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. to distribute its motor oils to 26 provinces in China. T ...

Hyundai Oilbank yesterday said it and Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd. plan to form a joint venture to build and operate a 13,000 barrels per day base oil pla ...

The opening of Shells Russian blending plant has been delayed again, to mid-2012. Shell previously pushed back the completion date for the 180,000 me ...

South Korean base oil refiners SK Lubricants and S-Oil reported strong increases in operating income and revenues for the quarter ending Dec. 31, comp ...

Raloy Lubricants and railroad company Kansas City Southern de Mexico recently opened the Diamond International transload center, a storage terminal th ...

Laugfs Lubricants Ltd. of Sri Lanka plans to set up its own blending plant in Hambantota port, on the southeastern end of the island nation. The anno ...

OSTFILDERN, Germany – European lubricant blenders have long benefited from the regions surplus of base oils. Not only has the excess supply made ...

Petroplus Holdings AG will file for insolvency, and the refiner was granted administration orders in the United Kingdom. Petroplus said Friday it woul ...

MOSCOW – Lukoil and Russian Railways formed a joint venture and will invest 1 billion rubles (U.S. $316 million) in a grease production plant ex ...

Avista Oil AG of Germany acquired a majority stake in Universal Environmental Services, which is building a new rerefinery in Georgia. Terms were not ...