Together with the United States, China will shape the passenger car motor oil market through 2040, said George Morvey of consultancy Kline & Co., spea ...

Base oil imports to China were virtually flat at 2.81 million metric tons in 2018, according to data from the nations General Administration of Custom ...

Shandong province aims by 2020 to replace all local diesel vehicles that don't comply with emissions standards newer than China 3 - which was adopted ...

Tariffs imposed on lubricants and lubricant additives traded between the United States and China have made an obvious impact on the markets in both co ...

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd and Continental Petroleum both reported healthy increases in profit for their third quarters, the former thanks to a jum ...

South Koreas four major base oil refiners - SK Lubricants, S-Oil, GS Caltex and Hyundai Shell Base Oil - each reported a deep cut in operating profit ...

Cosmo Oil and Spanish refiner Cepsa are discussing ways of aligning lubricant businesses and may use each other's blending plants to do so.

Hill Corp. recently finished building a used oil rerefinery and a small grease unit at its lubricant blending plant in Shymkent, in southern Kazakhsta ...

Chinese lubricant associations and refiners are testing a price index for API Group II base oils, a first step toward what is intended to be a broader ...

Feiya Chemical Co. has opened a factory in Chinas Jiangsu province to produce lubricant antioxidants on behalf of BASF. The plant was built under a te ...

South Korea's new Act on Safety Control of Consumer Chemical Products and Biocides regulation took effect Jan. 1. Industry sources disagree about whet ...

Chinas automaker association forecasted flat vehicle sales for 2019, an outcome that would be expected to hamper motor oil sales.

China is set to implement several policies that aim to promote electric vehicles by encouraging sales and protecting previous investments in the manuf ...

Uzbekistans national oil and gas company said it met with a Chinese construction firm last month to discuss adding a base oil plant to a large gas-to- ...

Ruisike Co., a subsidiary of Chinese automaker Chery, began construction this month on a used lubricant rerefinery in Fanchang, Anhui province. The fa ...

The China 6 vehicular emissions standard - the strictest in the world, according to the countrys central government - gets an 18-month head start next ...

Hengli Petrochemical Co. announced this month the start-up of a Northeast China refinery that includes a 540,000 metric ton per year API Group II and ...

A lube blending plant in Chhattisgarh, India, has been halted following an explosion that seriously injured one employee. Officials at Parvati Lubrica ...

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. reported a decline in net profit for its second quarter ending Sept. 30, compared to the same period a year earlier.

Locks Oil & Chemical (Zhejiang) Ltd. recently began operations at its new lubricant blending plant in Chinas Haiyan economic development zone. The com ...