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 ...

Grease production in Russia rose 51 percent in 2019, continuing a four-year growth trend that has been boosted by a government-sponsored drive to repl ...

The share of vehicles in Russia that use American Petroleum Institute’s API SM or API SN motor oil categories increased in the last couple of years ...

Russian’s vehicle market is enduring a difficult period, with steep sales declines projected for 2020 as a quarantine intended to contain Covid-19 d ...

Tatneft has finished building a lubricants blending plant at the site of its Taneco refinery in Nizhnekamsk, Russia, and plans to start operations in ...

Russian passenger car motor oil demand reached 267,000 metric tons in 2019, up almost 2 percent compared to the previous year, according to a Moscow-b ...

Lukoil invested U.S. $6.1 million since 2018 to increase production capacity and improve efficiency at its lubricant production sites in Russia. The m ...

Lukoil joint venture Intesmos grease production was flat in 2019 compared to the year before, while another of its joint ventures, LLK-Naftan, increas ...