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Stronger Economy Pumps Turkish Market
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Stronger Economy Pumps Turkish Market

March 12, 2025

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

Tupras Unit Back On Stream

Tupras Unit Back On Stream

January 13, 2025

A crude unit damaged by fire in November last year will restart in early February, Turkish refiner Tupras announced on l ...

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Drone Damages Volgograd Refinery

May 14, 2024

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

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Russian Base Oil Exports Keep Falling

March 19, 2024

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

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Petrol Ofisi Expands Blending Plant

November 21, 2023

Energy company Petrol Ofisi announced recently that it is expanding its lubricant blending plant in Kocaeli, Turkey, inc ...

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Rerefinery and Lube Factory Planned in Turkey

August 29, 2023

A waste oil rerefinery and lubricant manufacturing complex will be constructed in Mersin province in southeastern Turkey ...

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Two Blending Plants Announced in Turkey

May 2, 2023

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

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Small Rerefinery Being Built in Turkey

April 18, 2023

A public-private partnership for waste oil collection and construction of a base oil rerefinery was announced recently b ...

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Waste Oil Collection Increases in Turkey

March 21, 2023

Turkey collected more waste lubricants in 2022 compared to the year before thanks to an increase in amounts gathered by ...

Waste Oil Collection Declines in Turkey

Waste Oil Collection Declines in Turkey

January 31, 2023

Of the waste automotive lubricants generated in Turkey in 2021, just 11% was collected for further use, according to a r ...

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Turkish Lube Consumption Up 14% in 2021

January 24, 2023

Lubricant consumption in Turkey increased 14% in 2021 as the country’s economy rebounded from early impacts of the COV ...

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Turkey’s Lube Demand Stalled in 2020

October 26, 2021

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

Turkey Ramps Up Rerefined Oil Mandates

Turkey Ramps Up Rerefined Oil Mandates

April 27, 2021

Turkish lubricant marketers are preparing for new government regulations that mandate including rerefined base stocks in ...

Turkey Gains Group II

Turkey Gains Group II

February 1, 2021

Picture a refinery and you probably think of the endless industrial landscape of the Texas Gulf Coast, not the rolling h ...

Turkish Lubes Market on the Ropes

Turkish Lubes Market on the Ropes

September 2, 2020

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

Turkish Refinery Set to Reopen

Turkish Refinery Set to Reopen

June 8, 2020

Turkey’s only base oil plant is likely to resume production once Tupras restarts its Izmir refinery on July 1. Operati ...