Europe

The year started with weak demand for new passenger cars in the European Union, with registrations across the bloc declining 3.9% year on year in Janu ...

German waste oil rerefiner Puraglobe closed its finished lubricant blending plant in Tampa, Florida, last year and exited the site, releasing an ...

U.K.-based energy major BP reported a profit of $7.5 billion for 2025, underscoring resilient core earnings from fossil fuels despite softer crude pri ...

An email seen by Lube Report indicates that U.K. trade remedy duties on certain lubricants may be unenforceable in Northern Ireland because of the uni ...

Germany-based Fuchs SE will take full control of its lubricants joint venture with Opet in Turkey, the company announced. Upon closing, expected by th ...

Russia is awash with Chinese cars, yet sales are falling, dealerships are closing and hundreds of thousands of new vehicles remain unsold. That parado ...

Lukoil Sells Foreign Assets

February 4, 2026

Russian energy company Lukoil entered a nonexclusive deal with United States-based equity firm Carlyle to sell Lukoil International GmbH, the unit tha ...

United Kingdom-based lubricant additive manufacturer Infineum signed a supply agreement with Chinese additive component producer Rianlon for the Asia- ...

A tidal wave of mineral base oil capacity is surging onto a global market that already has a supply overhang. Exporters are especially likely to feel ...

Electric vehicle manufacturers have a big wishlist for the next generation of driveline fluids — copper compatibility, copper protection, improved ...

The European Union’s 18th package of sanctions on Russia will have little effect on base oil markets or revenues, according to a senior base oil tra ...

The geography, quality and scale of global base oil supply has fundamentally changed over the past two decades. Global production capacity has swollen ...

The sustainability movement is viewed as a big opportunity for businesses offering biolubricants — a stimulator of government policy and business an ...

Are we close to the long-anticipated point where chemical safety laws and market expectations become incompatible at an accessible cost? Lubricant for ...

In an open letter from the Union of the European Lubricant Industry (UEIL) to the European Commission, the union’s president, Mattia Adani, warns th ...

Valencia, Spain — Regulatory pressure, tariffs and sanctions, evolving lubricant specifications and rising defense and infrastructure spending are r ...

The Technical Association of the European Lubricants Industry (ATIEL) has issued an updated version of its engine oil Code of Practice that, for the f ...

Valencia, Spain – Europe and Asia are rapidly reshaping the rerefined base oil market, emerging as the dominant global hubs as sustainability mandat ...

The European Commission published its automotive package, outlining initial measures aimed at aligning the bloc’s decarbonization goals with competi ...