Russia

Gazprom Upgrades Moscow Lubes Plant

Gazprom Upgrades Moscow Lubes Plant

March 9, 2021

Gazpromneft-Lubricants boosted the production capacity of its Moscow lubricants blending plant by 50% and introduced a s ...

Japanese OEMs Plugged by Survey

Japanese OEMs Plugged by Survey

March 2, 2021

A survey of Russian motorists found genuine engine oils of two Japanese automakers and French independent Motul’s bran ...

Belarus Alters Route for Base Oil Exports

Belarus Alters Route for Base Oil Exports

February 23, 2021

Belarus has decided effectively to bypass Latvia and Lithuania as its main reloading ports for petrochemical exports, in ...

Embezzlement Ring Alleged at Refinery

Embezzlement Ring Alleged at Refinery

February 16, 2021

A group of 20 employees at Lukoil’s Volgograd refinery – which has a lubricant blending plant – was accused last w ...

Lukoil Streams Group II in Volgograd

Lukoil Streams Group II in Volgograd

February 2, 2021

Lukoil last week commissioned a new API Group II base oil plant at its refinery in Volgograd, Russia. The 10 billion rub ...

Russian Lube Marketers Played Defense

Russian Lube Marketers Played Defense

February 1, 2021

The novel coronavirus pandemic took its toll around the world, putting pressure on economies and shutting down demand fo ...

Gazprom Breaks Ground on Omsk Project

Gazprom Breaks Ground on Omsk Project

January 26, 2021

Russian oil major Gazprom Neft started construction last week on a modernization of an obsolete base oil plant at its re ...

Naftan Aims for More Group III

Naftan Aims for More Group III

January 19, 2021

Naftan wants to upgrade base oil production at its refinery in Novopolotsk, Belarus, by increasing output of API Group I ...

Survey Suggests Setback in Russian Market

Survey Suggests Setback in Russian Market

January 5, 2021

A December survey of lubricant suppliers in Russia showed their outlook on their business took a downturn from September ...

2020: Year of Pandemic and Much More

2020: Year of Pandemic and Much More

December 29, 2020

For the lubricants industry in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 2020 was dominated by the impacts of the COVID-19 pan ...

Small Rerefinery Opens in Russia’s Far East

Small Rerefinery Opens in Russia’s Far East

December 22, 2020

A small API Group I base oil rerefinery opened last week in Amur Oblast in the Russian Far East, the region’s governme ...

Pandemic Cuts Russia Base Oil Exports

Pandemic Cuts Russia Base Oil Exports

December 18, 2020

Russia base oil exports are expected to drop 12% this year, a European trader forecasts, because of a drop in demand cau ...

Russian Survey Highlights Top Oils

Russian Survey Highlights Top Oils

December 15, 2020

Shell, Lukoil and ExxonMobil remained the most popular motor oil brands in Russia in 2020, as they were two years ago, a ...

Russian State Plans Tiny Rerefinery

Russian State Plans Tiny Rerefinery

December 8, 2020

The government of a sparsely populated Russian district is promoting development of a tiny waste oil rerefinery as part ...

Taneco Prepares to Add 6 CentiStoke Oil

Taneco Prepares to Add 6 CentiStoke Oil

December 1, 2020

Russian oil major Tatneft’s Taneco refinery overhauled several units as part of a project aimed at enabling it to mak ...

Gazprom Takes Over Serbia Plant

Gazprom Takes Over Serbia Plant

November 24, 2020

Gazpromneft-Lubricants has taken control of and plans to expand NIS’s blending plant in Novi Sad, Serbia, to boost its ...

Omsk Refinery Makes Calcium Sulfonate

Omsk Refinery Makes Calcium Sulfonate

November 10, 2020

Gazprom Neft is continuing with a project to add API Group II and III capacity to it refinery in Omsk, Russia, but the s ...

Russia Market Forecast to Stay Depressed

Russia Market Forecast to Stay Depressed

October 27, 2020

Russia’s finished lubricant demand will decline 4% to 1.64 million tons in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic’s n ...