Many players from the international lubricants industry are attending the Lube Expo get-together this week in Dusseldorf, Germany, and while that lead ...

Tupras, Turkey’s sole producer of virgin API Group I base oils, reported second-quarter earnings ahead of forecasts, supported by stronger productio ...

Mobil Oil Turk, Exxon’s Turkish unit, has earmarked U.S. $2 million for new production capacity, renewable energy and increasing workforce in antici ...

A crude unit damaged by fire in November last year will restart in early February, Turkish refiner Tupras announced on late last week. The 151,000-bar ...

Lukoil’s refinery in Volgograd, Russia, was struck again Sunday by a drone attack that caused a fire and reportedly damaged a key unit.

Russian base oil exports by sea dropped by 10% in 2023 to 260,000 metric tons, as the European Union imposed an embargo on Russian petroleum product i ...

Energy company Petrol Ofisi announced recently that it is expanding its lubricant blending plant in Kocaeli, Turkey, increasing production capacity fr ...

A waste oil rerefinery and lubricant manufacturing complex will be constructed in Mersin province in southeastern Turkey, the local government said in ...

Petronobel Mineral Oils San and Tic A.S. announced plans last week to build a lubricant blending plant in an industrial zone near Istanbul. Another co ...

A public-private partnership for waste oil collection and construction of a base oil rerefinery was announced recently by the local government of the ...

Turkey collected more waste lubricants in 2022 compared to the year before thanks to an increase in amounts gathered by Tayras, the nation’s largest ...

Of the waste automotive lubricants generated in Turkey in 2021, just 11% was collected for further use, according to a report by a national oil associ ...

Lubricant consumption in Turkey increased 14% in 2021 as the country’s economy rebounded from early impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a ...

Turkey produced and imported 754,000 metric tons of finished lubricants in 2020, the same level as in 2019 according to estimates by LLK-International ...

Turkish lubricant marketers are preparing for new government regulations that mandate including rerefined base stocks in the manufacture of finished l ...

Picture a refinery and you probably think of the endless industrial landscape of the Texas Gulf Coast, not the rolling hills and pine forests of Anato ...

Local economic uncertainty and a global pandemic delivered a one-two punch to Turkey’s lubricants industry this year.

Turkey’s only base oil plant is likely to resume production once Tupras restarts its Izmir refinery on July 1. Operations at the refinery, which inc ...