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 ...

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

Gazprom Neft is continuing with a project to add API Group II and III capacity to it refinery in Omsk, Russia, but the site has already begun making l ...

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

Russia last week relaxed a ban on exports of base oils, lubricants and other petroleum products to Ukraine, stepping back from sanctions that had been ...

An increasing number of Russian lubricant market participants report that demand is rebounding from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to ...

Lukoil’s LLK International and Total’s subsidiary in Russia both suffered setbacks due to the country’s COVID-19 lockdown earlier this year, but ...

RZD, Russia’s state railway monopoly, began shipping lubricants and other petrochemicals via express freight shuttles as part of an ongoing effort t ...

Russian specialty chemical producer Vyazemsky Plant for Synthetic Products expanded its capacity to manufacture fatty acid esters, a feedstock for a v ...

Stihl, a German agricultural equipment maker, recently started a campaign to fight entities that counterfeit its genuine machine lubricants and other ...

Shell intends to increase the production capacity of its 180,000 tons per year blending plant in Torzhok by 50 percent by 2023, a company official sai ...

Rosneft’s domestic lubricant sales grew almost 10% to 712,000 tons in 2019, up from 650,000 tons the year before as expanded distribution channels p ...

Russian lubricant maker Lukoil boosted production at its stand alone lubricant blending plants by 5 percent to 138,000 metric tons in 2019, thanks to ...

Russian lubricant manufacturers are slashing investment, staff and marketing projects during the Covid-19 pandemic in favor of digital incentives, acc ...