Tatnefts 190,000 ton per year API Group II/III base oil plant at its new Nizhnekamsk refinery will commission in test mode by September and could star ...

Shell intends to stop API Group I base oil production at its refinery in Pernis, Netherlands, by early 2016, a company spokesperson told Lube Report. ...

Russias Gazprom is trying to build its lubricant business into a larger, more profitable operation. Doing so could be challenging given the scope of i ...

When the Soviet Union broke apart, Ukraines grease industry lost its biggest market and Russia lost its main supplier. Now the industries in both coun ...

Gazprom Neft commissioned the second stage of its lubricant blending production in Omsk, Western Siberia, and confirmed it will soon start constructio ...

While lubricants consumption continues to increase in Ukraine, Turkey and Romania, economic turmoil in those countries – and political feuds in ...

Agrinol has endured the countrys widespread corruption and political unrest to forge a successful business, serving Central Europes lubrication needs.

Brazil, Russia, India and China have little in common, but the economic performance of these countries is of prime importance to the lubricants indust ...

Russian oil major Gazprom Neft posted a 10 percent increase in combined base oil and lubricant production in 2013 compared to the previous year and in ...

Northern Oils has proposed a lubricants blending plant in Moray, on a harbor in northeast Scotland. The distributor claims it would be the countrys fi ...

Russian oil major Lukoil started supplying marine lubricants in bulk quantities to a key Black Sea port in southwest Russia. Lukoil Marine Lubricants ...

LONDON – SK Lubricants, unlike most other industry players, predicts an API Group III base oil deficit by 2017, and will expand Group III+ outpu ...

Russian lube maker Gazprom Neft Lubricants has signed a factory-fill and lubricant supply deal with Rostselmash, a major manufacturer of agricultural ...

Russias automotive gear oil consumption could surge 27 percent to 79,400 metric tons by 2018, largely due to a boost in passenger car sales, a market ...

Russian oil majors Lukoil, Gazprom Neft and Tatneft appealed to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to slash Russias lubricant export tax to 20 percent of ...

In a sometimes intense session at the 19th Colloquium Tribology at the Technische Akademie Esslingen in Germany last week, representatives from Lubriz ...

SKF plans to build new technical centers in Sweden and the Netherlands to perform advanced product development and testing for lubrication systems and ...

Russian oil major Lukoil recently signed lubricants supply contracts with a number of business and government customers in northern Russia, Sweden, Ro ...

The European Commission on Jan. 15 approved Lukoils acquisition of Austrian energy group OMVs non-retail lubricants business, including a 35,000 tons ...

Shell and Hyundai extended their Russian agreement for lubricants supply, training, technical support and marketing events to a five-year period. Unde ...