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 ...

Ukrainian lubricant manufacturer Agrinol and East Petronics Ltd. of the United Arab Emirates plan to open blending plants in Georgia and Latvia. The c ...

Engine oil demand in Russia rose 2.4 percent in 2014, according to a newly released study from market researcher RPI. The Moscow-based company said th ...

Royal Dutch Shells Russian subsidiary has started to export lubricants made at its blending plant in Torzhok, the company told Lube Report. So far, we ...

Russian police on Friday raided a massive counterfeit motor oil business in Moscow that they said sold fake products in containers designed to look li ...

Russian authorities and a civil organization have uncovered a pattern of illegal production and sale of fake motor oils in the city of Novosibirsk. Se ...

Russo-Belarusian additive maker LLK-Naftan expanded its reach to India where it started to supply lubricant additives, the company told Lube Report. T ...

MOSCOW – Russias Lukoil has built a significant presence in several European lubricant markets and is now working to build up its business in se ...

MOSCOW – Russian lubricant and base oil demand combined fell around 6 percent to 1.6 million metric tons in 2014, and it is highly likely to con ...

Russian owners of the two key Balkan lube makers, Rafinerija ulja Modrica and Naftna Industrija Srbije, are slashing their base oil development progra ...

Russian police confiscated nearly 6,000 liters of counterfeit motor oil in a raid in Nizhny Novgorod as part of a bigger anti-counterfeiting crackdown ...

Fire last week at distributor Tekhnorynok Avtomasels warehouse in Bryansk injured none, but caused possibly several million rubles in damage, accordin ...

Prices for foreign branded engine oils in Russia rose an average of 31 percent during the year ended in August, while domestic brands climbed just 7.5 ...

Russian Tatneft pushed the restart of its polyalphaolefins plant in the Republic of Tatarstan to the spring of 2016 as the company experiences procure ...

The Russian government further lowered its lubricant export tax, due to low average crude oil prices on international markets in July and August. The ...

Russian Gazpromneft Lubricants sealed a factory-fill agreement with Kazakh car and machinery maker Agromash Holding. Under the deal, Gazprom is signif ...

MOSCOW-Russian oil major Tatneft and subsidiary Nizhnekamskneftekhim announced plans to restart polyalphaolefins production at its plant in Nizhnekams ...

The Russian government imposed a new petrochemical industry taxation rule that envisions gradual decrease on an annual basis of the export tax for cru ...