Shell plans to open a new lubricants technical center in Shanghai, China, in 2014, driven by the companys growing lubricants business in the country. ...

Idemitsu Kosan of Japan projects that 85 percent of new income in its functional products division – which includes chemicals and agri-bio produ ...

The United Nations Security Council recently strengthened sanctions against North Korea, adding perfluorinated lubricants to its list of prohibited it ...

JX Nippon remains committed to its investment in China, despite the protracted political rift between the governments in Beijing and Tokyo over the di ...

Lubrizols CPI Engineering Services is partnering with Oxea Chemicals to manufacture synthetic refrigeration lubricants in Nanjing, China. Oxea has als ...

Petron Malaysia Refining and Marketing exited the lubricants sector as of March 1, citing the costs of introducing a new brand of lubricants in the Ma ...

Gulf Oil Corp. Ltd. may demerge its lubricants business into a separately listed company, according to a Feb. 8 filing with the National Stock Exchang ...

Russian oil major Lukoil is building a 100,000 metric tons per year lubricants blending plant in Kazakhstan. According to an official Kazakh governme ...

Intertek has added a robotic sample-handling system to its lubricant testing and oil condition monitoring lab in Singapore. The robotic sample handli ...

Russian lube marketer Gazprom Neft-SM forged a technical and marketing partnership with the Chinese automaker Lifan, the energy giant said last week. ...

Chem-Trend and Kluber Lubrication India, business units of Freudenberg Group, are building a regional technical center in Mysore, India, for their spe ...

Shell on Friday announced the opening of its new 30,000 metric tons per year grease plant in Zhuhai, in Chinas Guangdong province. The grease plant, ...

Raaj Unocal Lubricants will manufacture and market co-branded engine oils exclusively for Hindustan Motors vehicles under an agreement signed in Kolka ...

Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd. and Hyundai Oilbank yesterday confirmed plans for a new 650,000 metric tons per year API Group II base oil plant in Daesan, S ...

China National Offshore Oil Co. recently signed a contract to license Chevron Lummus Globals technology for a 400,000 metric tons per year API Group I ...

The troubles over the Mizushima plant continue to build for Japanese petroleum company JX Nippon. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) ...

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. widened a recall on Dec. 20 for an oil leak issue on vehicles sold in Japan to about 1.7 million vehicles, prompting a rebuke ...

Shell is expected to announce plans tomorrow for a new lubricants blending plant in Tianjin, in northern China. A Dow Jones Newswires report yesterda ...

SINGAPORE – Taiwan currently exports more than 300,000 tons per year of base oil to China duty-free, but South Korea and Japan are eying free tr ...

South Koreas Hyundai Engineering Co. was awarded a contract to develop a 200,000 tons per year API Group II and III base oil plant in Kazakhstan, acco ...