Croda International Plc plans to build a new production facility at its Chocques manufacturing site in northern France to increase capacity at the sit ...

Russian lube maker Rosneft more than doubled the output of its blending plant in its Angarsk refinery located in eastern Siberia. The company upgraded ...

Spanish multinational oil and gas company Cepsa opened a fully automated lubricants warehouse in San Roque, Cadiz province, to improve logistics. The ...

When Royal Dutch Shell and Fuchs Petrolub opened Russias first foreign-owned lubricant factories, in 2012 and 2013, respectively, both companies wante ...

Compulsory Stockholding Obligation tickets enable European suppliers to profit from surplus stock.

Balkan lubricant markets have shrunk significantly in the last several years due to faltering economies and an influx of imported products.

The Russian government has sought to sell off state-owned assets since last December due to continuing economic problems, including lubricant producer ...

Slavneft, a joint venture between Gazprom Neft and Rosneft, delayed the start-up of its Group III base oil plant now under construction in Yaroslavl, ...

LONDON – Prospects are improving in West African lubricant markets, especially Ghana and Nigeria, according to two speakers at the ICIS World Ba ...

Citing tough market conditions, Hydrodec Group sold its United Kingdom operations – including its waste oil collection business and a proposed r ...

LONDON – As the most developed lubricant market on its continent, South Africa is surging ahead with demand for higher-quality base stocks and s ...

LONDON-As of last month, restrictions on the sale and transfer of base oils in Turkey were lifted, allowing these stocks to be stored and distributed ...

Russias new passenger car and light commercial vehicle sales dropped by 43 percent last year because of the unfavorable economy, and the decrease coul ...

A shortage of United States dollars in Nigeria has discouraged base oil and additive purchases by local lubricant blenders, creating an artificial sca ...

The volume of commerce moving through and within Turkey is growing at a rapid pace. That means more truck traffic, more demand for engine oils that tr ...

Nyco announced yesterday that it has begun producing its first line of additives from a new unit at its Tournai, Belgium, synthetic lubes and ester ba ...

Ukrainian lubricant manufacturer Agrinol and East Petronics Ltd. of the United Arab Emirates plan to open blending plants in Georgia and Latvia. The c ...

Engine oil demand in Russia rose 2.4 percent in 2014, according to a newly released study from market researcher RPI. The Moscow-based company said th ...

Joe Beeton reviews the European market for synthetics.

Royal Dutch Shells Russian subsidiary has started to export lubricants made at its blending plant in Torzhok, the company told Lube Report. So far, we ...