Lukoil produced 973,000 metric tons of base oils last year, down about 7 percent from 1.05 million tons in 2013, while its finished lubricant producti ...

MOSCOW – Russias automotive lubricant market is expected to grow around 12 percent by 2020, driven by increased passenger car sales that should ...

MOSCOW – Russian production of base oils and lubricants is poised to stagnate to around 2.1 million tons in the next few years as the economies ...

Russian oil major Gazpromneft-Lubricants increased its national sales of motor oils by 24 percent in the first quarter, compared to the year-earlier p ...

Russian motorists are generally aware of what engine oil goes into their vehicles and they follow drain interval recommendations, according to results ...

Russias largest lube producers increasingly are trumpeting the new government policy of import substitution, urging users to switch to locally made pr ...

Russian lubricant demand fell more than 10 percent to 1.5 million metric tons in 2014 due to sluggish industrial output and lower new car sales, a Mos ...

Lukoil plans to permanently shut down its API Group I base oil plant in Nizhny Novgorod early next month, a source close to Lukoil activities told Lub ...

Russian lube maker LLK International landed a supply deal in the countrys Far East region, while Gazpromneft-Lubricants opened its first fast lube cha ...

Gazpromneft-Lubricants is pushing to enter the markets of China and Libya; for the former it plans to open local production by 2019, in the latter it ...

Russian oil major Rosneft and Uralvagonzavod have begun cooperating to meet the defense contractor’s lubricant needs in the face of embargoes by ...

Russian automotive lubricants consumption is poised to grow around 3 percent annually, reaching as much as 563,000 tons in 2020, a study by consultanc ...

Russian oil major Lukoil started an expansion of its lube manufacturing plant in Vienna to bolster its logistics and supply base in Central and Wester ...

Russian lube marketer Gazprom Neft Lubricants announced the opening of its first G-Energy Service-branded auto service center in Russia, part of its b ...

BERLIN – Russian base oil producers envision modernizing their plants to add 1.6 million metric tons per year of API Group II and III capacity b ...

Gazprom Neft Lubricants launched an automated factory fill facility at a Mercedes-Benz heavy duty vehicle assembling plant in Tatarstan, Russia. The f ...

Rosneft and heavyweights from several Russian industries have entered lubricant and oil product supply agreements in reaction to the countrys economic ...

Tatneft started commercial production of API Group II and III base oils at its refinery in Nizhnekamsk, Russia, the company told Lube Report last week ...

Gazprom Neft Lubricants signed a marine oil supply deal and has started to offer marine lubes in bulk quantities at a key Baltic Sea passenger port in ...

MOSCOW – Russias lubricant demand will stagnate through 2020, due to the countrys economy contraction triggered by international sanctions, decl ...