Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font unveiled a plan recently to nationalize the country’s lithium industry, declaring that the nation should make t ...

Italy recycled 98% of used lubricating oils collected there last year – the sixth consecutive year that it met or topped that level – according to ...

Kazakhstan’s Hill Group expects to break ground in Lithuania soon on an API Group II base oil rerefinery. The project includes a large blending comp ...

Russia’s lubricant market stagnated in 2022, hampered by lower industrial output in sectors such as automobiles, machine building and metallurgy tha ...

Japan’s lubricants production volume declined 16%, and its domestic lubricants sales volume dropped 46% in April, compared to volumes in the same mo ...

Adverse trends in supply chain and sales, including unstable base oil prices and rupee depreciation, were among market factors cited by Indian compani ...

India rerefiner IFP Petro Products announced last week that it has entered a partnership with Germany-based Avista Oil AG to expand its rerefining and ...

Brazil’s base oil production rose 9% in April, while base oil imports jumped 14%, according to government data released today. Domestic output – m ...

Base oil production in the United States fell 29% in March to its lowest mark since February 2021, according to data released today by the U.S. Energy ...

The United States continues to import most of the API Group III base oil that it consumes, but a Canadian start-up aims to put a dent into that depend ...

Aiming to serve what it describes as a vibrant Algerian transportation market, petroleum products distributor Petro Baraka recently opened a lubricant ...

Georgia imported almost 7,000 metric tons of finished lubricants from January through April of this year, up 7% compared to the same period in 2022, a ...

Nigerian lubricants blender and marketer Conoil reported a 21% decline in gross profit and 51% less sales revenue for the quarter ended March 31, desp ...

Yushiro Chemical reported that its net profit more than tripled for the fiscal year ended March 31, boosted by strong performance in Japan and the Ame ...

Lubricant manufacturer P.S.P. Specialties Public Co. has obtained approval for its application for an initial public stock offering that aims to raise ...

The lubricant segment of Colombian oil and gas company Terpel attained large increases in gross profit in the first quarter in Colombia and Peru, its ...

Police in the Brazilian state of Goias, in a joint operation with government agencies, on May 22 seized more than 4,000 liters of engine oil at a dist ...

France’s finished lubricant consumption fell 13% to 45,297 metric tons in March, pushing demand for the first quarter to a 5% decline, according to ...

Waste oil collector Slicker Recycling Ltd. acquired competitor Oil Monster for an undisclosed sum in mid-May. The purchase further strengthens Slicker ...

Russia’s only polyalphaolefins complex now can also produce polyalkylene glycols and complex esters, after completing an expansion that included a r ...