Boris Kamchev reports on the opening of the SK-Repsol Cartagena plant.

Matrica, a 50-50 joint venture between Eni subsidiary Versalis and Novamont, welcomed European stakeholders on Friday to its newly-built Italian biore ...

Lukoils refinery, lubricant blending plant and other production facilities in Ploiesti, Romania, were shut down the past few days by authorities probi ...

Russian state-owned oil major Rosneft and petrochemicals company Sibur signed a five-year lubricants development and supply deal. Under the five-year ...

Russian industrial oils producer Orgkhim plans to build an extender process oils plant in Singapore or Malaysia, the company told Lube Report Asia on ...

ALICANTE, Spain – Repsol and SK Lubricants are ready to launch commercial production at their new API Group III base oil plant in Cartagena, Spa ...

Ray Masson discusses the future of API Group II base stocks in Europe.

Russias Gazprom Neft Lubricants and Rosmorport, a major icebreaker fleet operator, signed a marine oils supply deal as part of a long-term strategy to ...

RSC Bio Solutions opened a warehouse in Rotterdam, Netherlands, to distribute its biobased lubricants to European customers, particularly in the marin ...

The European Unions 2008 waste framework directive emphasizes recycling and rerefining of waste oil. The regions rerefiners expect the regulation to d ...

VOLGOGRAD, Russia – Russian grease maker Intesmo pledged to reduce Russias reliance on imported grease and to also export its grease products du ...

Russian state-owned oil giant Rosneft signed a partnership with the countrys largest auto maker, Avtovaz, which includes factory fill, industrial lube ...

Lukoil said it will halt construction of its blending plant in Kazakhstan due to the countrys restrictions on base oil imports and lubricant exports.

Russias Gazprom Neft Lubricants and Rostselmash, a major manufacturer of agricultural machinery, introduced a line of new lube products. Branded as Ro ...

Industrial Finance Finland STR Ltd. purchased the Hamina, Finland, rerefinery formerly owned by bankrupt Finnish rerefiner L&T Recoil Oy, and pla ...

Russian grease maker Intesmo, a joint venture between Lukoil and Russian Railways, is ready to launch its new grease plant early next month to supply ...

Total and Kia signed a long-term lubricants supply deal for the Korean automakers car dealer network in Russia. Under the five-year agreement, Total V ...

Lukoils production of base oils and lubricants combined fell 8 percent last year compared to 2012, but it still captured 48 percent of the combined ma ...

Economic and political turmoil in Ukraine, Turkey and Romania could force the regions small to mid-size blenders to look elsewhere for new opportuniti ...

Hydrodec signed engineering, licensing and technology collaboration agreements with Chemical Engineering Partners for a planned U.K. rerefinery capabl ...