The outlook of lubricant marketers and distributors in Russia improved significantly from December to March, according to the latest survey conducted ...

Two units that are key to an upgrade project reach Gazprom Neft’s base oil plant in Omsk, Russia, last week culminating a complex and multi-phase jo ...

A finished lubricant blending facility was installed late last year at the site of Russia’s only polyalphaolefin plant and promptly leased to Taif L ...

Ukraine Railways is facing difficulties obtaining finished lubricants after some marketers failed to fulfill call-off contracts and other pre-qualifie ...

Rosneft increased its sales of packaged lubricants sales by 13% in 2020 and expanded distribution in Russia and abroad, the company announced last wee ...

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

A survey of Russian motorists found genuine engine oils of two Japanese automakers and French independent Motul’s brand ranked highest for customer ...

Belarus has decided effectively to bypass Latvia and Lithuania as its main reloading ports for petrochemical exports, including base oils and lubrican ...

A group of 20 employees at Lukoil’s Volgograd refinery – which has a lubricant blending plant – was accused last week of stealing motor oil thro ...

Lukoil last week commissioned a new API Group II base oil plant at its refinery in Volgograd, Russia. The 10 billion ruble (U.S. $132 million) investm ...

The novel coronavirus pandemic took its toll around the world, putting pressure on economies and shutting down demand for many products, including lub ...

Russian oil major Gazprom Neft started construction last week on a modernization of an obsolete base oil plant at its refinery in Omsk, Western Siberi ...

Naftan wants to upgrade base oil production at its refinery in Novopolotsk, Belarus, by increasing output of API Group III stocks by 2026, according t ...

A December survey of lubricant suppliers in Russia showed their outlook on their business took a downturn from September, suggesting that the market w ...

For the lubricants industry in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 2020 was dominated by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic while also seeing many o ...

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

Russia base oil exports are expected to drop 12% this year, a European trader forecasts, because of a drop in demand caused by COVID-19 lockdowns in E ...

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

The government of a sparsely populated Russian district is promoting development of a tiny waste oil rerefinery as part of an effort to ensure that us ...

Russian oil major Tatneft’s Taneco refinery overhauled several units as part of a project aimed at enabling it to make 6 centistoke API Group III b ...