Russias base oil production is sorely in need of upgrading, but many improvement projects are behind schedule or on hold for lack of funding.

Anuj Kumar forecasts the Western European base oil market.

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Nynas is now operating the base oil plant and associated production units at the former Shell refinery in Harburg, Germany. The takeover of the base o ...

U.S. oil major Chevron opened its first lubricant store last week in Baku, Azerbaijan, and also plans to open a chain of lube express shops there. Bak ...

Azmol, one of the former Soviet Unions largest lubricant makers, went bankrupt under a recent commercial court rule, according to Voice of Ukraine, th ...

Polish lube marketer Orlen Oil started the liquidation process of its Czech product distribution subsidiary, the company told Lube Report on Tuesday. ...

Europe's Waxes: Up to Snuff? Production is sputtering, even as the region's appetite for petroleum waxes grows. Will the next API Group I refinery clo ...

BRUSSELS-The $1 trillion economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China all have different development drivers and potential for growth, but consultancy ...

MOSCOW – The Kremlins hefty spending on Russias defense industry and heavy investments in infrastructural and security projects ahead of the 201 ...

German motor oil and aftermarket additive manufacturer Liqui Moly will invest nearly 20 million (U.S. $27.4 million) in development and production by ...

Russian lube marketer Gazpromneft Lubricants signed a strategic partnership deal with the Russian Association of Auto Dealers.The agreement announced ...

Ray Masson forecasts the prospects for surviving Group I suppliers.

Russian authorities went ahead with plans to move a Moscow-based specialty lubricants plant, despite protests by industry sources and marketers that i ...

The Moscow Arbitration Court for commercial disputes agreed that Vostok-Logistik imported Shell lubricants without authorization into Russia, a Shell ...

Gazprom Neft Lubricants and Russian car maker Derways sealed a five-year partnership agreement for supply, development and marketing of new lubricant ...

BRUSSELS – REACH is accomplishing most of its objectives thus far, according to the European Commission, but changes must be made to reduce the ...

Shell expects to double its lubricants production in Russia in 2014 and to start exporting to Belarus, Ukraine and other neighboring countries, the co ...

MOSCOW – Russias sluggish economic growth, projected at just 1.3 percent for 2013, is delaying the countrys base oil modernization projects, an ...

Hydrodec Group will collaborate with Essar Oil UK on a joint venture oil rerefining center at Stanlow, U.K., including a rerefinery with API Group II+ ...