Oryx Oil and Gas has opened its second lubricant blending plant in Africa. The new 18,000-metric-ton facility is located in the Togo port city of Lome ...

Petroplus Holdings AG is closing its Petit Couronne, France, refinery this month, including its 7,300 barrels per day base oil plant, to cut costs. P ...

Shell Lubricants Technology formed a two-year research and development partnership with a laboratory at Chinas Tsinghua University, to focus on lubric ...

Advantages and disadvantages abound in Argentina. It is one of the G-20 economies, with an average income classified as “upper-middle.” It ...

Driven by increased sales of foreign branded cars and consumption of higher-quality lubricants, Russias demand for light-vehicle lubricants grew 1.6 p ...

Russia is raising the export duty on petrochemicals, including lubricants, Oct. 1. However, industry insiders dont expect higher international market ...

A Bahrainian petroleum products supplier earlier this year opened an oil rerefinery with capacity to produce 36,000 metric tons per year of base oils. ...

A growing number of Russian car owners have extended their engine oil drain intervals and become do-it-for-me oil change customers since 2007, althoug ...

MOSCOW – Russias lubricant market faces modest recovery in 2010, but due to the economic downturn lubricant demand contracted so heavily in 2009 ...

Russias government has raised export duties on heavy refined petroleum products $5 per metric ton, which could impact motor oil prices, Itar-Tass repo ...

SK Lubricants plans to begin building a lubricant blending plant with 80,000 metric tons per year capacity in Tianjin, China, this month with completi ...

Chinas estimated 2007 finished lubricants market of 5.3 million metric tons valued at $10.6 billion was second only to the United States in volume, co ...

Recent spikes in oil prices and increased environmental regulations have injected renewed interest into alternative base stocks such as synthetics, re ...

Oil products marketer Petroser said last week it is nearing completion of a lubricant blending plant being built in partnership with BP in Western Alg ...

Oleon has started a new distillation tower at its fatty acid plant in Ertvelde, Belgium, a year after a fire destroyed part of the plants main distill ...

Royal Dutch Shell signed a letter of intent last week to sell its refinery in Petit Couronne, France, including its biggest base oil plant in Europe, ...

Grease production in China saw a dramatic 71.5 percent increase from 2005 to 2006, according to NLGIs latest grease production survey, leading a world ...

Veolia Environnement and Total on Nov. 30 announced the creation of Osilub, a joint venture to develop a sustainable used motor oil recycling business ...

EDINBURGH, Scotland- While the United Kingdoms grease market has shriveled and the major oil companies have stopped making grease here, an industry ex ...

Bulgarian lubricants maker Prista Oil significantly expanded grease production at its plant near the nations capital, the company told Lube Report. Th ...