Shelves loaded with several thousands tons of packaged motor oil collapsed in a St. Petersburg, Russia, warehouse on July 15, causing an oil spill abo ...

In a bid to compete with imports, Russia’s biggest lubricants marketer LLK-International recently made quite a few supply contracts with the cou ...

A dramatic increase in export numbers reported by Belarus for base oils and lubricants in the first quarter of 2012 has many observers of the Russian ...

MOSCOW – Russias inability to produce high quality base oils and lube additives is problematic, but the bigger issue it faces today is the lack ...

Gazprom Neft opened its new 70,000 metric tons per year lubricants blending plant in Omsk, Western Siberia, and expects an additional 110,000 t/y upgr ...

Spains Repsol YPF changed its name to Repsol S.A. after Argentinas nationalization of YPF, and indicated a base oil expansion project at its Cartagena ...

Neftgazsbyt acquired a 51.9 percent stake in the Mendeleev-Rusoil fuel refinery and lubricants plant from Slavneft for an undisclosed amount. The sal ...

The production of PAOs in Russia could resume by 2014 once a major petrochemical company completes recently authorized modernization to its alpha olef ...

Todays economic forecast may be cloudy, but the past two years were good for Germany’s grease industry, with sales reaching pre-recession levels ...

Russias Ministry of Economic Development yesterday said the government will review exempting base oil from the new export duty, which one analyst says ...

ADM Capital and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) jointly paid 48 million (U.S. $61 million) for a 30 percent stake in Bulga ...

MOSCOW — Almost all vertically integrated oil companies in Russia have plans to upgrade their base oil plants, but Rosneft claims a leadership r ...

U.S. lubricants and chemicals producer Ashland Inc. and Russias TNK-BP signed a five-year agreement to distribute Valvoline passenger car products in ...

Oil Refinery Modrica has begun expansion of its API Group III base oil plant and construction of a new lubricant blending plant, the company said last ...

Shell Russia is setting its sights on Ukraines lubricants market once its 180,000 tons per year blending plant in Torzhok begins full production, the ...

MOSCOW – Russian production of high quality API Groups II and III base oils is predicted to reach 1.7 million tons per year by 2020, meeting dom ...

BASF commissioned a new oxidized polyethylene waxes manufacturing plant at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany. The low-density polyethylene wax that fo ...

STUTTGART, Germany – Mercedes-Benz has adopted a wide-ranging upgrade of service-fill engine oil specifications for its passenger cars and heavy ...

German lubricant producer Rowe Mineraloelwerk GmbH is building a second blending plant to accommodate the growth of its business. The facility – ...

MOSCOW – Russias grease production is expected to grow at an annual rate of 5 to 7 percent after 2014, when new plants will be launched, a resea ...