The major additive companies pulled out of Russia last year. Which countries are now helping Russia to meet demand for additives and finished lubes?

Russian automotive chemicals producer Suprotec announced plans for a grease and metalworking fluids manufacturing venture in the St. Petersburg area, ...

Western motor oil brands continue to lose shares of sales in and around Moscow, while domestic and Korean brands have taken up slack since last summer ...

Gazprom Neft’s new 220,000 metric tons per year Group II and III base oil production in Omsk is scheduled to start streaming by the end of September ...

Approximately 500,000 metric tons of waste lubricants are collected in Russia each year, but the vast majority is reused as fuel, according to governm ...

Russia imported 282,000 tons of motor oils in 2022, and more than half of that was shipped from Asia, according to a new study, reflecting the ongoing ...

Exorbitant prices for car parts and accessories are discouraging Russian motorists from visiting large stations for service, including oil changes, an ...

The Eurasian Economic Union of former Soviet republics updated its technical regulation for lubricants, oils and special fluids, the organization’s ...

Russia imported 227,000 passenger cars in the first half of 2023 – more than tripling the amount in the same period last year – and around 75% cam ...

Additech, a lubricant additive joint venture between the Russian and Belarus oil majors Lukoil and Naftan, expanded its production capacity to 40,000 ...

After it sold a refinery in Italy, a Romanian official speculated recently that Russian oil major Lukoil could sell its assets in Romania, too, due to ...

Russia’s only polyalphaolefins complex now can also produce polyalkylene glycols and complex esters, after completing an expansion that included a r ...

A Russian motorist group complained to the central government last week that the country faces a growing shortage of automotive engine oils and qualit ...

Russia’s lubricant market stagnated in 2022, hampered by lower industrial output in sectors such as automobiles, machine building and metallurgy tha ...

Russia’s only polyalphaolefins complex now can also produce polyalkylene glycols and complex esters, after completing an expansion that included a r ...

Base oil production by Lukoil fell 7% last year, while its finished lube output increased 2%, partly driven by its acquisition of Shell’s former bus ...

Finished lubricant imports to Russia underwent large shifts last year in the countries of origin due to fallout over the nation’s invasion of Ukrain ...

Russian demand for automotive engine oils stagnated at around 414,000 metric tons in 2022, with the lion’s share bought and stockpiled for future us ...

New car and light commercial vehicle sales in Russia plunged almost 60% in 2022 as the war in Ukraine ramped up economic sanctions against the country ...

French oil major TotalEnergies handed over management of its Russia lubricant business to a Russian entity, and the transaction includes its 40,000 me ...