More than 75 percent of the worlds lubricating grease is thickened with lithium hydroxide or lithium complex soap - but over 90 percent of the grease ...

Indias Tide Water Oil agreed last week to a 9.59 million (U.S. $13.8 million) acquisition of Price Thomas Holdings Ltd., which owns United Kingdom-bas ...

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd.s plan to build a blending plant at Chennai, India, is moving ahead once again and is on track to open by late 2017, com ...

Demand for synthetic base stocks in India is growing, but the markets price consciousness means that most of the volume increases in coming years will ...

Indias lubricant market may be lagging developed markets in terms of the quality of finished products and the base stocks that it uses, but it has beg ...

Savita Oil will soon complete a consolidation project that moves all of its lubricant manufacturing and storage operations to one facility in Silvassa ...

Most marketers would agree its not easy to expose a lubricants brand to 4.7 billion people, but Gulf Oil says it can potentially accomplish that by sp ...

If India is one of Asias brightest lubricant markets, then much of its light comes from motorcycle and passenger car engine oil segments. Demand for t ...

Castrol India Ltd.s 2015 year-end and fourth quarter profits jumped 30 percent and 7 percent, respectively, compared to 2014s corresponding periods, w ...

Perstorp announced recently that it may build a world-scale pentaerythritol factory in India to better position itself to supply the chemical for lubr ...

Through the first three-quarters of fiscal 2015-2016, Indias lubricant market appears to have fallen short of expectations. While giving scant credenc ...

The lube businesses of Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd., GP Petroleums Ltd., Balmer Lawrie & Co., and Savita Oil Technologies all recorded double- or tr ...

Tide Water Oil and Apar Industries Ltd.s specialty oils and lubricants business both posted big earnings increases for the three months ended Dec. 31, ...

PetroChina announced an agreement with automaker FAW Group for the supply and joint development of automotive lubricants. The deal calls for the compa ...

After an alliance led by Standard Greases and Specialities failed in its bid to become majority stockholder of Tide Water Oil, Tide Water Chairman Kal ...

The market for lubricants for two-wheelers in India is undergoing refinement as suppliers launch engine oils formulated specifically for scooters.

The head of Tide Water Oil said last week that a surge in the companys stock price had helped it avoid a hostile takeover by Standard Greases and Spec ...

Petronas Lubricants International on Wednesday announced the start of construction of a lubricant blending plant in Mumbai, saying it will use the fac ...

Indias Finance Ministry asked two state-owned insurance companies with stakes in Tide Water Oil not to participate in Standard Greases and Specialitie ...

India announced it will implement Bharat Stage V and VI emissions standards for passenger vehicles three years earlier than previously planned, in 201 ...