Russian police shut down a business in an old warehouse in Togliatti, Samara Oblast, last week that allegedly manufactured counterfeit motor oils of p ...

The global transformer oil market will grow at a compound annual rate of nearly 9 percent from 2016 to 2020, with mineral-based oils continuing to dom ...

Gazprom Neft announced last week that it will begin a major revamp of its refinery in Omsk, Russia – a project that will provide feedstock for a ...

Russian passenger car and light commercial vehicle sales are expected to plunge 16 percent to about 1.35 million units in 2016, the countrys automobil ...

Gazprom Neft acquired Rospolychem Group, a Russian manufacturer of specialty oils such as aviation lubricants and rolling oils whose customers include ...

MOSCOW – Russias consumption of engine oils for on-road vehicles stagnated in 2015, but vehicle usage rates are rising as is the proportion of o ...

Lukoils output of base oils slumped 28.7 percent in 2015 and its sales of finished lubricants dipped 1.8 percent, according to its annual report, but ...

One person was killed and four others injured by an explosion last week at a metalworking fluids and chemicals complex operated by Ivhimprom in Ivanov ...

Russian police raided a facility in southern Moscow that allegedly was producing counterfeit motor oils, according to the citys ministry of internal a ...

Russias combined base oil and lubricants production grew just 2 percent in 2015 compared to the year before, as the country entered into its second co ...

The Eurasian Interstate Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification recently introduced a new standard for heavy-duty motor oils that wil ...

Gazpromneft-Lubricants combined sales of base oils and lubricants rose by 11 percent to 528,000 tons in 2015, driven by increased domestic and foreign ...

Russias largest base oil refiner, Lukoil, produced around 860,000 metric tons of base oils in 2015, down 10 percent from 973,000 tons the year before. ...

Russian lube maker Rosneft more than doubled the output of its blending plant in its Angarsk refinery located in eastern Siberia. The company upgraded ...

When Royal Dutch Shell and Fuchs Petrolub opened Russias first foreign-owned lubricant factories, in 2012 and 2013, respectively, both companies wante ...

The Russian government has sought to sell off state-owned assets since last December due to continuing economic problems, including lubricant producer ...

Slavneft, a joint venture between Gazprom Neft and Rosneft, delayed the start-up of its Group III base oil plant now under construction in Yaroslavl, ...

LONDON – Prospects are improving in West African lubricant markets, especially Ghana and Nigeria, according to two speakers at the ICIS World Ba ...

LONDON – As the most developed lubricant market on its continent, South Africa is surging ahead with demand for higher-quality base stocks and s ...

Russias new passenger car and light commercial vehicle sales dropped by 43 percent last year because of the unfavorable economy, and the decrease coul ...