BP’s lubricants business posted a steep drop in profit for the first quarter, which it attributed primarily to Covid-19 pandemic impacts, while inde ...

German industrial giants Fuchs Petrolub and BASF carried out a joint study on the cradle-to-grave environmental impact of mineral oil hydraulic fluids ...

French lubricant demand dropped 5.2 percent in 2019 as the European Union’s carbon dioxide emission reduction targets put pressure on the automotive ...

Russian’s vehicle market is enduring a difficult period, with steep sales declines projected for 2020 as a quarantine intended to contain Covid-19 d ...

Tatneft has finished building a lubricants blending plant at the site of its Taneco refinery in Nizhnekamsk, Russia, and plans to start operations in ...

More than a quarter of Polish motorists do not know what type or brand of oil is used in their vehicle, according to a new marketing study on motor oi ...

Poland consumed more than 226,000 metric tons of lubricants in 2019, down 3.5 percent from the year before, and the slight decrease is attributed to w ...

Russian passenger car motor oil demand reached 267,000 metric tons in 2019, up almost 2 percent compared to the previous year, according to a Moscow-b ...

Lukoil invested U.S. $6.1 million since 2018 to increase production capacity and improve efficiency at its lubricant production sites in Russia. The m ...

Europe installed a record 3,623 megawatts of new offshore wind capacity in 2019, according to statistics released Feb. 6 by WindEurope. However, the a ...

BPs lubricants business reported higher profits for the fourth quarter and lower profits for the full year, attributing the full-year decline mainly t ...

Lukoil joint venture Intesmos grease production was flat in 2019 compared to the year before, while another of its joint ventures, LLK-Naftan, increas ...

When lubrication is concerned, standards need to evolve to match advances in technology. In Russia, some grease manufacturers are still making lubrica ...

Eighty-four percent of motorists in Russia are men, while just 16 percent are women, and men usually handle engine oil changes, whether by doing it th ...

The world's two leading engine oil specification groups have developed a closer working relationship in recent years, which will enable new developmen ...

Seventy-two percent of waste oil generated in Spain in 2018 was refined into base stocks, according to a recent annual progress report by Sigaus, a no ...

Nynas AB, one of the worlds largest suppliers of naphthenic base stocks, filed for reorganization protection in a Swedish court Friday after banks ref ...

Russian base oil export volumes are off an estimated 1 percent this year after a sharp 12 percent decline in 2018, an industry insider estimates. An o ...

The European Commission last week adopted a quota for API Group II base oil imports, determining that volumes above 400,000 metric tons per year will ...

API Group I rationalization continues to occur in Europe, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States - with more expected in the Middle East - ...