Asia

Balmer Lawrie & Co.s greases and lubricants segment moved from the red to black with its performance for the quarter ended June 30, while Savita Oil T ...

Cost increases at MJL Bangladesh Ltd. caused a 36 percent drop in profits for the first half of 2015 despite higher sales, while Indias GP Petroleums ...

Shell has agreed to sell its 75 percent stake in Tongyi Lubricants to United States-based equity firm The Carlyle Group and Tongyis founder and joint ...

Indias Tide Water Oil Co. is gearing up to enter South African and Sudanese markets, license sales of its products in Bangladesh, and to relaunch its ...

Castrol India filed record profit in its second quarter, up 49 percent at Rs 281.8 crores (U.S. $44 million) compared to 188.8 crores in the three mon ...

Japanese petroleum major Idemitsu Kosan will purchase Royal Dutch Shells 33.2 percent stake in Showa Shell Sekiyu KK with an aim of merging with SSSKK ...

Hainan Handi Sunshine Petrochemical Ltd. is moving forward again with a previously stalled plan to build another base oil plant at the site of its exi ...

Liquid natural gas is an increasingly popular source of fuel in China for long-haul buses and trucks, and this means they will require different types ...

SK Shelves IPO Again

July 28, 2015

SK Innovation on Thursday retracted its application to conduct an initial public stock offering for its base oil and lubricants subsidiary, SK Lubrica ...

S-Oils base oil business posted higher second quarter operating income thanks to healthy Group III prices, but SK Lubricants had a lower operating pro ...

GTS Gained Big in 2014

July 21, 2015

GTS Chemical reported that revenue and gross profit for its lubricant division jumped 68 percent and 61 percent, respectively, in the second half of 2 ...

China offers great opportunity for progress in the recycling of used lubricants - both in terms of the volume recycled and the quality of products pro ...

Japanese chemical producer Koei Chemical Co. has sold its pentaerythritol, di-pentaerythritol and sodium formate businesses to Swedens Perstorp for an ...

Shell Lubricants recently launched a lifetime engine warranty in India for motorists using Shell Helix Ultra engine oil. Shell claims the offer is unm ...

The China Securities Regulatory Commission approved an initial public offering application from Qingdao, Shandong province-based lubricant producer Co ...

Japan is Asias third-largest producer of base oils, and its supply base includes three facilities that make approximately 180,000 metric tons per year ...

A German testing company found that oil change intervals in China are shorter than in other markets and significantly shorter than they need to be.

Shell opened a new blending plant Tianjin, China, Thursday, the latest in a series of investments by the company in the nations large and growing lubr ...

Royal Dutch Shell is narrowing the number of bidders for its majority stake in Shell Tongyi (Beijing) Petroleum, part of its lubricant business in Chi ...

GP, Repsol Ally in India

June 23, 2015

GP Petroleums Ltd. tied up with Repsol to produce and supply the Spanish oil majors lubricants in India.