Chevron Belgium NV and toll blender VLS-Group renewed their contract, including an increase of volumes to be handled via VLS-Groups toll manufacturing ...

Demand keeps shifting toward Groups II and III in Russia and Eastern Europe, but a check on refiners reveals a cautious investment mood.

Russian base oil exports fell 20 percent in 2014 because of growing competition at home and abroad, increased production costs and falling demand in E ...

Russian Tatneft pushed the restart of its polyalphaolefins plant in the Republic of Tatarstan to the spring of 2016 as the company experiences procure ...

Bulgarian lube maker Prista Oil is upgrading the blending technology at its Ruse lubricants blending plant in Bulgaria, and hopes to persuade others t ...

The Russian government further lowered its lubricant export tax, due to low average crude oil prices on international markets in July and August. The ...

Russian Gazpromneft Lubricants sealed a factory-fill agreement with Kazakh car and machinery maker Agromash Holding. Under the deal, Gazprom is signif ...

Petro-Canada Lubricants announced Aug. 5 it is expanding its distribution in Europe to improve the availability of bulk products. Now our customers wi ...

Ukrainian authorities thwarted an organized group in the Rivne Oblast that had allegedly been making and selling fake motor oils under the labels of p ...

MOSCOW-Russian oil major Tatneft and subsidiary Nizhnekamskneftekhim announced plans to restart polyalphaolefins production at its plant in Nizhnekams ...

Quaker Chemical Corp. acquired Spanish industrial lubes and grease company Verkol last week for $32.4 million. Quaker, of Conshohocken, Pa., said that ...

Fuchs Petrolub acquired Sweden-based Statoil Fuel & Retail Lubricants AB for an undisclosed amount. SFR Lubricants is part of Couche-Tard Luxembou ...

The Russian government imposed a new petrochemical industry taxation rule that envisions gradual decrease on an annual basis of the export tax for cru ...

A Hydrodec subsidiary leased a 9-acre site in northwest United Kingdom for use in the first phase of its planned 75 million liters per year API Group ...

Rafinerija ulja Modrica recently launched a new blending plant in Modrica, northern Bosnia and Herzegovina. The 13 million (U.S. $14.2 million) blendi ...

The increased use of biodiesel has exacerbated the effect of fuel dilution of the lubricant. Fuel dilution can increase oxidation, reduce viscosity, c ...

The deadline for GHS conversion in the United States and Europe has passed, but some companies have not made the transition yet. If youre in this posi ...

Russian chemical producer Orgkhim will break ground on its extender process oils plant in Malaysia by the end of this year, the company told Lube Repo ...

In its first public comments about the decision to close its Nizhny Novgorod base oil plant, Lukoil said it shut the facility because of dwindling dem ...

MOSCOW – Russia earlier this year implemented a federal law mandating treatment and recycling of various wastes, including used lubricants. Russ ...