A new Chinese-run refinery expected to start up by Oct. 20 in Kyrgyzstan will produce base oil by 2014, the countrys energy minister said. The $300 m ...

South Korean refiner Hyundai Oilbank plans to produce 180,000 barrels of Xteer brand engine oil by 2014 to sell at home and abroad, according to a Sep ...

Chemtura Corp. has begun the commissioning process of its new polyalphaolefin plant in Ankerweg, Netherlands, and almost simultaneously has started up ...

Evonik Oil Additives will expand its Singapore oil additives plant, with completion scheduled for early 2015, in response to Asia driving above-averag ...

Fuchs completed an A $4.5 million (U.S. $4.1 million) warehouse facility in Melbourne, Australia, the first phase of an A $6 million plan to increase ...

Lubrizol yesterday announced the opening of its additives manufacturing facility in Zhuhai Gaolan Port Economic Zone in southern China. The plant in ...

Earlier this month, Japan-based petroleum company Idemitsu Kosan announced that its lubricants subsidiary in China, Idemitsu Lube China, will open a n ...

SINGAPORE – In this period of unprecedented change in the base stock industry, base stock optimization is essential to cut costs and complexity. ...

Singapore Lube Park – a joint venture among Shell, Sinopec and Total – yesterday announced it will build and operate facilities in southwe ...

SINGAPORE – My bet is on China, one expert opined, making this is a great moment for Western producers to supply the country’s growing dem ...

SINGAPORE – Demand for higher quality lubricants is rising fast in China, the worlds largest lubricants market. At the same time, nearly every c ...

ExxonMobil opened a new Asia Pacific oil analysis laboratory at the companys Shanghai Technology Center in China. Signum, ExxonMobils oil analysis pr ...

ExxonMobil yesterday said it plans to expand API Group II base stock production capacity at its Singapore refinery by early 2015. The company manufac ...

MUMBAI, India – Indias logistics industry is highly unorganized and fragmented, and costs are high, posing challenges for the worlds third large ...

MUMBAI, India – India will feel the greatest demographic and social pressures in coming decades, as young people spiral up consumption, shops tu ...

MUMBAI, India – Executives from Fuchs and Total offered international perspectives on doing business in India at last months ICIS Indian Base Oi ...

MUMBAI, India – India will become the worlds second largest commercial vehicle market by 2015, and combined passenger car and commercial vehicle ...

Vietnams VN Oil has picked Chemical Engineering Partners of California to construct the countrys first used oil rerefinery, with capacity to process 6 ...

Additives manufacturer Chevron Oronite last week said it is achieving milestones in four major capital projects – two in Singapore and two in Fr ...

Valvoline Cummins Ltd. has opened a plant in India with capacity to manufacture and package 120 million liters of lubricants per year, with possible e ...