Asia

New Lubes JV in Singapore

March 21, 2012

Hup Soon and AP Oil yesterday announced a 50-50 joint venture in Singapore to develop and produce lubricants under a new brand name, to be sold global ...

Infineum yesterday said it will begin construction of a new salicylate manufacturing facility at its Jurong Island, Singapore, site in the first quart ...

Pertamina Targets China

February 15, 2012

Pertamina, Indonesias national oil company, has appointed Tengyu Trading (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. to distribute its motor oils to 26 provinces in China. T ...

Hyundai Oilbank yesterday said it and Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd. plan to form a joint venture to build and operate a 13,000 barrels per day base oil pla ...

Profits Up for SK, S-Oil

February 8, 2012

South Korean base oil refiners SK Lubricants and S-Oil reported strong increases in operating income and revenues for the quarter ending Dec. 31, comp ...

Laugfs Lubricants Ltd. of Sri Lanka plans to set up its own blending plant in Hambantota port, on the southeastern end of the island nation. The anno ...

Shell Lubricants Technology formed a two-year research and development partnership with a laboratory at Chinas Tsinghua University, to focus on lubric ...

SK Thinks Big in China

May 12, 2010

SK Lubricants plans to begin building a lubricant blending plant with 80,000 metric tons per year capacity in Tianjin, China, this month with completi ...

Chinas estimated 2007 finished lubricants market of 5.3 million metric tons valued at $10.6 billion was second only to the United States in volume, co ...

Grease production in China saw a dramatic 71.5 percent increase from 2005 to 2006, according to NLGIs latest grease production survey, leading a world ...