Led by strong vehicle sales, Russian automotive lubricants demand is expected to grow around 3 percent annually, reaching 765,000 metric tons by 2017, ...

Kamaz, Russias biggest truck manufacturer, is now promoting Kamaz-branded heavy-duty motor oils developed with LLK International, the countrys biggest ...

Russian oil major Lukoil is building a 100,000 metric tons per year lubricants blending plant in Kazakhstan. According to an official Kazakh governme ...

Russian lube marketer Gazprom Neft-SM forged a technical and marketing partnership with the Chinese automaker Lifan, the energy giant said last week. ...

Slavneft-Yanos reported its Yaroslavl refinery processed 15.3 million tons of crude oil in 2012, 3.4 percent more than in 2011. But base oil productio ...

Rosneft, one of Russia’s biggest lubricants marketers, increased its supply of automotive lubricants in 2012 and recently introduced two key pro ...

MOSCOW-Russias fast growing vehicle market is causing significant changes in the country’s motor oil sales, stricter compliance by lube manufact ...

Russian lubricants marketer Gazprom Neft-SM expanded its sales network to Germany, Ukraine, Turkey and Iraq, the company said last week. Earlier this ...

Lukoil filed for arbitration in its 2008 acquisition of a lubricants blending plant and other assets in Turkey, fearing it might lose ground in the co ...

Lukoil is developing a 270,000 tons per year blending plant at its Volgograd refinery, trying to firmly hold its grip on the domestic and internationa ...

Shelves loaded with several thousands tons of packaged motor oil collapsed in a St. Petersburg, Russia, warehouse on July 15, causing an oil spill abo ...

In a bid to compete with imports, Russia’s biggest lubricants marketer LLK-International recently made quite a few supply contracts with the cou ...

A dramatic increase in export numbers reported by Belarus for base oils and lubricants in the first quarter of 2012 has many observers of the Russian ...

MOSCOW – Russias inability to produce high quality base oils and lube additives is problematic, but the bigger issue it faces today is the lack ...

Gazprom Neft opened its new 70,000 metric tons per year lubricants blending plant in Omsk, Western Siberia, and expects an additional 110,000 t/y upgr ...

Neftgazsbyt acquired a 51.9 percent stake in the Mendeleev-Rusoil fuel refinery and lubricants plant from Slavneft for an undisclosed amount. The sal ...

The production of PAOs in Russia could resume by 2014 once a major petrochemical company completes recently authorized modernization to its alpha olef ...

Russias Ministry of Economic Development yesterday said the government will review exempting base oil from the new export duty, which one analyst says ...

MOSCOW — Almost all vertically integrated oil companies in Russia have plans to upgrade their base oil plants, but Rosneft claims a leadership r ...

U.S. lubricants and chemicals producer Ashland Inc. and Russias TNK-BP signed a five-year agreement to distribute Valvoline passenger car products in ...