BASF announced plans March 4 to significantly expand its production capacity for 20 specialty amines at its chemical complex in Ludwigshafen, Germany. ...

Gazpromneft-Lubricants is pushing to enter the markets of China and Libya; for the former it plans to open local production by 2019, in the latter it ...

H&R Group yesterday said it patented a process to convert low-value oil refinery by-products into high-quality process oils and other specialties ...

Colas Group will stop making base oil at its refinery in France by the end of this month - joining in a parade of Europeans leaving the Group I arena.

Hydrodec Group recently selected a site in Eastham, U.K. and began front-end engineering and design for its 75 million liters per year API Group II/II ...

ExxonMobil revealed plans Monday to produce API Group II base stocks at its Rotterdam, Netherlands, refinery starting in 2018. Esso Nederland BV, an E ...

Russian oil major Rosneft and Uralvagonzavod have begun cooperating to meet the defense contractor’s lubricant needs in the face of embargoes by ...

Russian automotive lubricants consumption is poised to grow around 3 percent annually, reaching as much as 563,000 tons in 2020, a study by consultanc ...

Colas Group plans to stop base oil production at its plant in Dunkerque, France, around the end of March, a company source confirmed to Lube Report. T ...

Russian oil major Lukoil started an expansion of its lube manufacturing plant in Vienna to bolster its logistics and supply base in Central and Wester ...

Russian lube marketer Gazprom Neft Lubricants announced the opening of its first G-Energy Service-branded auto service center in Russia, part of its b ...

BERLIN – Russian base oil producers envision modernizing their plants to add 1.6 million metric tons per year of API Group II and III capacity b ...

The United Kingdom Lubricants Associations program for verifying lubricant quality suspended the membership of Ferguson & Menzies last month afte ...

Global base oil demand is expected to remain depressed until the end of the decade. According to a London-based consultancy, this will lead to further ...

Spains capacity for producing base oils and finished lubes add up to a surplus that will far exceed the countrys demand. With that pattern set to cont ...

A seemingly never-ending series of economic crises have taken the European lubricants market on a roller coaster ride. Fuchs Petrolubs Apu Gosalia loo ...

Klines Naira Aslanian covers the prospects for biolube growth in Europe.

The Hamina, Finland, rerefinery formerly owned by L&T Recoil Oy and EcoStream is back in operation under new owner STR Tecoil Ltd. We are up and ...

Aegean Marine Petroleum Network announced Jan. 8 that it will begin supplying and marketing marine lubricants and fuels in Germany this month. Operati ...

Ukraines Alternative Fuels and Renewable Energy Association established a committee to provide technology standards and a platform for cooperation by ...