Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd. and Hyundai Oilbank yesterday confirmed plans for a new 650,000 metric tons per year API Group II base oil plant in Daesan, S ...

China National Offshore Oil Co. recently signed a contract to license Chevron Lummus Globals technology for a 400,000 metric tons per year API Group I ...

The troubles over the Mizushima plant continue to build for Japanese petroleum company JX Nippon. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) ...

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. widened a recall on Dec. 20 for an oil leak issue on vehicles sold in Japan to about 1.7 million vehicles, prompting a rebuke ...

Shell is expected to announce plans tomorrow for a new lubricants blending plant in Tianjin, in northern China. A Dow Jones Newswires report yesterda ...

SINGAPORE – Taiwan currently exports more than 300,000 tons per year of base oil to China duty-free, but South Korea and Japan are eying free tr ...

South Koreas Hyundai Engineering Co. was awarded a contract to develop a 200,000 tons per year API Group II and III base oil plant in Kazakhstan, acco ...

SINGAPORE – Shell Lubricants is committed to investing in Asia, with a focus on China, and its strong regional supply chain – including se ...

Afton Chemical plans to invest more than $100 million to construct a new chemical additive manufacturing facility on Jurong Island, Singapore, that wi ...

SINGAPORE – The worlds largest single-unit API Group III base oil plant, SK Lubricants 26,000 barrel per day joint venture with JX Energy, start ...

Castrol India reported that its second quarter income fell to 1.21 billion rupees (U.S. $21.9 million), a decrease of 15.16 percent from last years se ...

SINGAPORE – Sinopecs API Group II/III base oil capacity, 410,000 metric tons per year today, will soar to 1 million t/y by 2015 to help meet Chi ...

The European Council repealed an anti-dumping duty on furfuraldehyde from China, saying in recent years the EUs industry had fully recovered while pri ...

Petronas Lubricants International has global ambitions and a new base oil futurist to help it succeed. Joe Rousmaniere, until recently the chief exec ...

Independent lubricant blender Fuchs Petrolub plans a A.$5 million expansion in Australia of its Sunshine facility and a major redevelopment of its New ...

Evonik Oil Additives plans to build a new plant in the Asia-Pacific region to almost double current lubricant additives capacity there by 2015. The c ...

Infineum announced plans to build a new lubricant additive manufacturing complex in China, subject to approval by its Board of Directors. The size of ...

MOSCOW – Driven by strong demand for premium products, China imported a record 2.7 million tons of base oil last year, continuing a six-year tre ...

South Korean base oil refiners SK Lubricants and S-Oil both reported drops in operating income while claiming revenue increases for the first quarter, ...

Philippine law enforcement officials confiscated 8,878 bottles of counterfeit Castrol lubricants worth U.S. $37,000 during a raid, the nations state-r ...