The big story in this months magazine is the opening of the new ExxonMobil API Group II base oil refinery unit in Rotterdam.

Ray Masson looks at the Middle Easts base oil scene.

The worlds thirst for API Group III base stocks should continue to grow in coming years, as requirements for light-duty automobiles keep increasing an ...

With Brexit only a few weeks away and still no firm withdrawal agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union uncertainties abound about ...

Europes lubricant industry has fallen far behind in the development of base oil interchange and viscosity grade read-across guidelines but is now work ...

Gazpromneft-Lubricants reported that its combined production of base oils and finished lubricants increased 21 percent in 2018 to 703,000 metric tons ...

ExxonMobil announced Thursday that its new base stock plant in Rotterdam has begun commercial production, marking the opening of Europes first large-s ...

Fuchs Petrolub SE posted 288 million (U.S. $327 million) in earnings after tax for 2018, up 7 percent from 269 million in 2017.

Competition rules in the European Union allow automakers to recommend certain brands of replacement parts, including engine oils and other lubricants, ...

Simon Johns asks what will happen to the U.K.s lubricants market after Brexit.

A large majority of European manufacturers - but not those in Russia - are adopting some form of Industry 4.0 technology, yet many believe these techn ...

BPs lubricant business profits decreased 20 percent to $311 million in the fourth quarter, down from $375 million during the year-earlier period.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. signed agreements Sunday selling a combined 35 percent stake in itself to Eni and OMV for a total of $5.8 billion. The comp ...

Commercial vehicle registrations across the European Union grew 3.2 percent to 2.5 million in 2018, its sixth consecutive year of growth, while passen ...

Russian chemical producer Orgkhim expanded its process oil production in Uren, Nizhny Novgorod, from 110,000 tons per year to 130,000 t/y by adding a ...

Shepherd Chemical Co., a producer of metal-based lubricant additives, announced a multi-million dollar expansion that could double capacity at its Mir ...

Those concerned about a future of quickening electric vehicle uptake can cast their eyes to Norway, the leader in battery-powered cars per capita and ...

Europe has at last jumped on the fast-moving Group II bandwagon, one that started in the United States and has moved to Asia.

Simon Johns offers a brief explainer on the delay behind the release of the latest ACEA sequences.

Russia's base oil production increased 3 percent in the first half of 2018, compared to 2017's first half, and the trend was forecasted to continue fo ...