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Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. said Monday that it will now guarantee that its base stocks meet specified parameters for viscosity index and tendency to e ...

The global motorcycle oils market is projected to grow by a compound annual rate of 1.5% to 2% during the next four years, according to a forecast tha ...

French lubricant company Condat SA last week finalized the acquisition of Kemno, a specialist lubricant and coolant company based in Milan. The takeov ...

The co-owners of lubricant marketer Prista Oil have been charged by Bulgarian authorities with waste mismanagement and corruption, but they deny the c ...

Fuchs Petrolub SE announced the purchase of Welponer SpA, an Italian lubricant distributor with annual revenue of €4 million, the company’s fourth ...

Lukoil’s LLK International and Total’s subsidiary in Russia both suffered setbacks due to the country’s COVID-19 lockdown earlier this year, but ...

Total Acquires Lubrilog

September 29, 2020

French energy major Total announced last week that it had acquired Lubrilog SAS, thereby strengthening Total’s presence across several industrial lu ...

Lubricant demand in France rebounded after bottoming out in April and in June actually ran ahead of sales from the same month of 2019, according to da ...

Neste Divests Stake in Nynas

September 22, 2020

A district judge in Sodertorn, Sweden, on Thursday approved Nynas AB’s petition to extend its court-administered reorganization process for another ...

An appeals court in Serbia is expected to hand out a final verdict soon to the owner of lube marketer Fam’s former operator in a decade-old embezzl ...

BP Sales Rebound in Poland

September 15, 2020

BP Polska, the British oil major’s subsidiary in Poland, said recently that its lubricant sales in the country have begun rebounding after a drop-of ...

The European Union’s energy demand is forecast to decline by as much as 30% by 2050, depending on how quickly policy measures and societal behavior ...

Global demand for general industrial lubricants will decline 13 percent for this year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, consultancy Kline & Co. proje ...

Lubricant demand in Spain fell 21% during the first six months of 2020, compared to the same period of 2019, according to the Spain Lubricants Associa ...

RZD, Russia’s state railway monopoly, began shipping lubricants and other petrochemicals via express freight shuttles as part of an ongoing effort t ...

Local economic uncertainty and a global pandemic delivered a one-two punch to Turkey’s lubricants industry this year.

Spain’s lubricants consumption began fading last fall and then declined sharply earlier this year due to the impacts of COVID-19 – dropping more t ...

Rubis Acquires Tepsa

August 31, 2020

Rubis Terminal recently acquired Tepsa, a Spanish company that provides storage for bulk base oil, lubricants and other petroleum products. Terms were ...

France’s public health agency is conducting a survey to assess health and quality of life impacts of a September 2019 fire at a Lubrizol lubricant a ...

Global lubricant sales by French energy giant Total S.A. jumped more than 20% in 2019, according to a report that the company published recently.