Uzbekistan oil and gas company Saneg acquired CGC Lubricants Italy S.p.A., an Italian lube maker, to expand its footprint on the European markets and ...

Indonesia requested World Trade Organization dispute consultations with the European Union over its imposition of anti-dumping duties on imports of fa ...

API Group I base oil prices have tumbled in Europe on the back of exceptionally aggressive export pricing from Eni in Livorno, Italy. The site could c ...

BP reported a triple-digit increase in fourth-quarter profitability for its Castrol lubricants business and a slight improvement for the full year 202 ...

Lukoil’s refinery in Volgograd, Russia, site of a major lubricant manufacturing complex, was struck last weekend by a drone purportedly launched by ...

Vickers Oils announced it has built a lubricant blending plant in the Leeds, United Kingdom, area dedicated to production of food-grade lubricants. Of ...

The Middle East conflict deepened the past week as the United States attacked multiple sites in Syria and Iraq that it claimed were home to militias i ...

Italian refiner Eni stated Monday that the base oil plant at its Livorno, Italy, fuels refinery will close permanently when the site converts to refin ...

TotalEnergies and waste management firm Veolia have formed a partnership to recycle used automotive lubricant containers in the United Arab Emirates. ...

The Middle East situation intensified further the past week as the United States directly accused Iran of being responsible for proxy attacks in Jorda ...

Shell last week announced plans to convert a fuels refinery in Wesseling, Germany, to produce API Group III base oils. The company will cease fuels pr ...

The United States last month gave regulators new authority to target domestic and international institutions involved in evading bans on exports to Ru ...

Passenger car registrations in the European Union rose 14% to 10.5 million units in 2023, despite December marking the first month of contraction afte ...

Solvay last month completed the spin-off of its specialty chemicals business, which has been named Syensqo and supplies a range of lubricant additives ...

The effects of ships avoiding the Red Sea are becoming more apparent as the days go by, with governments and operating companies realizing the complic ...

Sales of new passenger cars in Russia rebounded by 69% in 2023 to 1.1 million units, boosted by a hefty uptake of Chinese models, the Moscow-based ana ...

The European Union built a record 17 gigawatts of wind energy generating capacity in 2023, a 13% increase from 2022, but the pace remains well behind ...

Researchers with a technical foundation and a university in Norway said their efforts to develop new knowledge on the interaction between lubricants, ...

The main news topic this week is the escalation of attacks against merchant shipping in the Red Sea corridor, and retaliatory strikes against the Hout ...

European, Middle Eastern and African base oil markets are gradually returning to everyday business as players head back to desks following the winter ...