Asia

Shell Big on Asia

August 1, 2012

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The European Council repealed an anti-dumping duty on furfuraldehyde from China, saying in recent years the EUs industry had fully recovered while pri ...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

China Lubes Boom on

May 9, 2012

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 ...

New Lubes JV in Singapore

March 21, 2012

Hup Soon and AP Oil yesterday announced a 50-50 joint venture in Singapore to develop and produce lubricants under a new brand name, to be sold global ...

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

Pertamina Targets China

February 15, 2012

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 ...

Profits Up for SK, S-Oil

February 8, 2012

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 ...

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 ...

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