Europe

Gazprom Neft Lubricants signed a marine oil supply deal and has started to offer marine lubes in bulk quantities at a key Baltic Sea passenger port in ...

MOSCOW – Russias lubricant demand will stagnate through 2020, due to the countrys economy contraction triggered by international sanctions, decl ...

Reviving Russias Grease Market

November 18, 2014

Russian grease maker Intesmo has pledged to reduce the countrys reliance on imported greases and to step up aggressively in regional and European mark ...

Belarus slashed export taxes by 8 percent for some petrochemical products – including base oils and lubricants – sold outside of the custo ...

Europe Wakes Up to Ilboc

November 2, 2014

Lubes'n'Greases visits the new API Group II/III base oil plant built by Spain's Repsol and South Korea's SK, just as its first shipments are poised to ...

Russian lubricant marketer Lukoil expanded its lube sales in the South Caucasus and is confident it can expand production and establish more distribut ...

Russias Gazprom Neft Lubricants started to ship lubricants to Moldova, a poor, underdeveloped country in Eastern Europe, the company said last week. G ...

Lubrizol invested $20 million in its additive blending operations in Le Havre, France, saying it will help the company cope with increased complexity ...

The customs agency for Russias Far East has in recent months intercepted substantial volumes of counterfeit motor oils imported from South Korea.

The Russian additives market amounted to around 56,000 tons in 2013 and was ruled by imported products. The countrys lubricant suppliers use these pro ...

Last Word

October 21, 2014

Boris Kamchev reports on the opening of the SK-Repsol Cartagena plant.

Matrica, a 50-50 joint venture between Eni subsidiary Versalis and Novamont, welcomed European stakeholders on Friday to its newly-built Italian biore ...

Lukoils refinery, lubricant blending plant and other production facilities in Ploiesti, Romania, were shut down the past few days by authorities probi ...

Russian state-owned oil major Rosneft and petrochemicals company Sibur signed a five-year lubricants development and supply deal. Under the five-year ...

Russian industrial oils producer Orgkhim plans to build an extender process oils plant in Singapore or Malaysia, the company told Lube Report Asia on ...

Cartagena Opens for Business

September 24, 2014

ALICANTE, Spain – Repsol and SK Lubricants are ready to launch commercial production at their new API Group III base oil plant in Cartagena, Spa ...

Base Oil Report

September 17, 2014

Ray Masson discusses the future of API Group II base stocks in Europe.

Russias Gazprom Neft Lubricants and Rosmorport, a major icebreaker fleet operator, signed a marine oils supply deal as part of a long-term strategy to ...

RSC Bio Expands in Europe

September 17, 2014

RSC Bio Solutions opened a warehouse in Rotterdam, Netherlands, to distribute its biobased lubricants to European customers, particularly in the marin ...

The European Unions 2008 waste framework directive emphasizes recycling and rerefining of waste oil. The regions rerefiners expect the regulation to d ...