A consultant told an industry conference in Mumbai, India, Wednesday that lubricant companies can benefit from crude oil price volatility if they carr ...

New emissions standards loom for China and India, and both markets could encounter problems related to availability of compliant fuels and engine oil ...

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. expects to commission in 2022 a 270,000 metric tons per year base oil plant that will mostly produce API Group III stocks at its ...

Sasol Ltd. opened its alkoxylation plant in Nanjing, China, last week, expanding its production of surfactants, some of which are used to make lubrica ...

The worlds largest auto market is on the verge of implementing the worlds strictest emission regulations. This could have a major impact on the develo ...

Japans introduction of an ultra-low viscosity passenger car motor oil specification, GLV-1, in October will drive demand for base oils with a higher v ...

Balmer Lawrie & Co. opened a new industrial packaging plant that manufactures steel drums last month in Vadodara, in the Indian state of Gujarat, to s ...

Japans domestic lubricant sales volumes fell by more than 10 percent in 2018, but exports increased by 30 percent, according to data released recently ...

Diesel engine oils of obsolete API CF-4 service category and below still dominate Asias major commercial vehicle markets - China, India and Indonesia ...

Malaysian company Hyrax Oil plans to open a lubricant blending plant next week at an oil terminal in Muthurajawela, Sri Lanka.

A new coal-to-liquids plant in Chinas Shanxi province is making Group III+ bright stock - a feat that may be a first, say industry analysts.

Lubricating grease production in China appears to have continued its decline in 2018, according to the National Lubricating Grease Institutes yearly s ...

Japan's Idemitsu Kosan Co. began construction of a lubricant blending plant in Huizhou, Guangdong province, China, the company announced Wednesday.

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. and Apar Industries each reported healthy increases in profit for their fourth quarter, due to a jump in sales. Meanwhi ...

A lubricant blender in Chinas Hubei province recently opened an engine oil filter factory and claims to be the only company in the country to manufact ...

Balmer Lawrie & Co. reported an increase in consolidated operating profit, Tide Water Oil Co.s consolidated net profit declined, and Continental Petro ...

KH Neochems new refrigeration lubricant additive plant, expected to open early next year in Mie prefecture, western Japan, will increase the companys ...

Overall lubricant production in China has flattened in recent years, but output of automotive lubes continues to expand, and imports are still swellin ...

Indias GP Petroleums reported about a 35 percent year-on-year jump in its fourth-quarter net profit as lower expenses and other income more than offse ...

China is in the midst of what may be the biggest, fastest swell of base oil capacity the world has ever seen.