The Russian automotive lubricants market is expected to grow 11 percent by 2017, driven by increased passenger car sales and a fleet that is slated to ...

Mineral base oil capacities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa total nearly 16.8 million metric tons per year, a slight increase over a year ago. A ...

Dick Beercheck describes the regulatory conditions affecting the Turkish lubricants industry.

ISTANBUL – Turkey stands at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. But a question remains whether the country can exploit its geographic advantage a ...

Russia will soon introduce a complex export tax formula for different grades of base oil, responding to a request by three Russian oil majors to lower ...

Boris Kamchev reviews the lubricants market in Turkey.

DUBROVNIK, Croatia – The food-grade lubricants industry can help address concerns about mineral oil hydrocarbons getting into food by developing ...

Tatneft and Nizhnekamskneftekhim expressed readiness to resume polyalphaolefin and finished oil production at their joint ventures idled plant in Nizh ...

MUMBAI, India – Lukoil tabled plans to upgrade its base oil plants, in deference to a growing oversupply of API Group III oils. Given the curren ...

For a variety of reasons, Russia is failing to meet its internal demands for white oils. One company calls this an opportunity and is looking for part ...

Tatnefts 190,000 ton per year API Group II/III base oil plant at its new Nizhnekamsk refinery will commission in test mode by September and could star ...

Shell intends to stop API Group I base oil production at its refinery in Pernis, Netherlands, by early 2016, a company spokesperson told Lube Report. ...

Russias Gazprom is trying to build its lubricant business into a larger, more profitable operation. Doing so could be challenging given the scope of i ...

When the Soviet Union broke apart, Ukraines grease industry lost its biggest market and Russia lost its main supplier. Now the industries in both coun ...

Gazprom Neft commissioned the second stage of its lubricant blending production in Omsk, Western Siberia, and confirmed it will soon start constructio ...

While lubricants consumption continues to increase in Ukraine, Turkey and Romania, economic turmoil in those countries – and political feuds in ...

Agrinol has endured the countrys widespread corruption and political unrest to forge a successful business, serving Central Europes lubrication needs.

Brazil, Russia, India and China have little in common, but the economic performance of these countries is of prime importance to the lubricants indust ...

Russian oil major Gazprom Neft posted a 10 percent increase in combined base oil and lubricant production in 2013 compared to the previous year and in ...

Northern Oils has proposed a lubricants blending plant in Moray, on a harbor in northeast Scotland. The distributor claims it would be the countrys fi ...