Russia

Long on Promise

April 25, 2014

When the Soviet Union broke apart, Ukraines grease industry lost its biggest market and Russia lost its main supplier. Now the industries in both coun ...

Gazprom Neft commissioned the second stage of its lubricant blending production in Omsk, Western Siberia, and confirmed it will soon start constructio ...

Russian oil major Gazprom Neft posted a 10 percent increase in combined base oil and lubricant production in 2013 compared to the previous year and in ...

Russian oil major Lukoil started supplying marine lubricants in bulk quantities to a key Black Sea port in southwest Russia. Lukoil Marine Lubricants ...

Russian lube maker Gazprom Neft Lubricants has signed a factory-fill and lubricant supply deal with Rostselmash, a major manufacturer of agricultural ...

Russias automotive gear oil consumption could surge 27 percent to 79,400 metric tons by 2018, largely due to a boost in passenger car sales, a market ...

Russian oil majors Lukoil, Gazprom Neft and Tatneft appealed to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to slash Russias lubricant export tax to 20 percent of ...

Lukoil Cuts More Lube Deals

January 29, 2014

Russian oil major Lukoil recently signed lubricants supply contracts with a number of business and government customers in northern Russia, Sweden, Ro ...

The European Commission on Jan. 15 approved Lukoils acquisition of Austrian energy group OMVs non-retail lubricants business, including a 35,000 tons ...

Shell and Hyundai extended their Russian agreement for lubricants supply, training, technical support and marketing events to a five-year period. Unde ...

Azmol Goes out of Business

January 8, 2014

Azmol, one of the former Soviet Unions largest lubricant makers, went bankrupt under a recent commercial court rule, according to Voice of Ukraine, th ...

BRIC Countries Recover

January 1, 2014

BRUSSELS-The $1 trillion economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China all have different development drivers and potential for growth, but consultancy ...

Russian Lube Output Slows

January 1, 2014

MOSCOW – The Kremlins hefty spending on Russias defense industry and heavy investments in infrastructural and security projects ahead of the 201 ...

Russian lube marketer Gazpromneft Lubricants signed a strategic partnership deal with the Russian Association of Auto Dealers.The agreement announced ...

Russian authorities went ahead with plans to move a Moscow-based specialty lubricants plant, despite protests by industry sources and marketers that i ...

Shell Wins Claim in Russia

December 11, 2013

The Moscow Arbitration Court for commercial disputes agreed that Vostok-Logistik imported Shell lubricants without authorization into Russia, a Shell ...

Gazprom, Derways Expand Deal

December 11, 2013

Gazprom Neft Lubricants and Russian car maker Derways sealed a five-year partnership agreement for supply, development and marketing of new lubricant ...

Shell to Boost Lubes in Russia

November 27, 2013

Shell expects to double its lubricants production in Russia in 2014 and to start exporting to Belarus, Ukraine and other neighboring countries, the co ...

MOSCOW – Russias sluggish economic growth, projected at just 1.3 percent for 2013, is delaying the countrys base oil modernization projects, an ...

Gazprom Bunkers in Primorsk

October 16, 2013

Gazpromneft Lubricants is offering marine oil bunkering services at a key Russian port to enhance its maritime product competitiveness and sales, the ...