The U.K. and U.S. governments separately announced new sanctions packages this month targeting Russia’s largest oil companies, Lukoil and Rosneft, i ...

Demand for motorcycle and quad oils is the sole bright spot in Russia’s otherwise stagnant automotive lubricant market, according to Moscow-based co ...

Ukrainian drones struck Rosneft’s Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery on the night of Oct. 18–19, according to a statement from the General Staff of the ...

Bashneft’s refinery in Ufa, Russia, was attacked by Ukrainian drones Saturday, causing undetermined damage to another Russian refinery that produces ...

Ukrainian drones damaged stalled base oil production at Rosneft's Novokuibyshevsk refinery.

New car and light commercial vehicle sales in Russia fell by 27% year-on-year in the first half of 2025 to 546,430 units.

The story of copper as an additive is a good one. The story of how a startup took that technology from the pages of Soviet-era tribology papers and tu ...

Lubricant production in post-Soviet states has grown over the past three years, driven by Western sanctions against Russia, the exit of international ...

Russia’s finished lubricant market held steady at around 1.8 million tons in 2024, as domestic producers focused on improving efficiency and product ...

Russia’s domestic grease market is still lucrative despite sanctions and escalating raw materials costs.

Gazpromneft-Lubricants starts white oils production in Russia.

A recent survey in Russia indicates motorists are reducing the intervals at which they replace their passenger car engine oils – results that a cons ...

The United States Treasury has come down harder on Russian energy exports, targeting the so-called “shadow fleet” of Russian crude and product tan ...

Gazpromneft’s Singapore subsidiary, Gazpromneft Marine Lubricants, will close down after a final general meeting of board members and creditors on N ...

Russian new passenger car sales surged to 617,000 units in the first five months of 2024, marking an 81% rebound from slumping sales in the same perio ...

Russian company Industrial Projects expressed intentions last week to build a lubricant blending plant in the Rostov oblast, according to a May 20 new ...

Lukoil’s refinery in Volgograd, Russia, was struck again Sunday by a drone attack that caused a fire and reportedly damaged a key unit.

Lukoil’s base oil and finished lubricant production both fell significantly in 2023, impacted by  a decline in marine oil sales.

A ground-up mixture of drained plastic motor oil canisters can be used as a construction additive in road pavement materials typically made of bitumen ...