In an effort to discourage tax-dodging mixing with diesel, Israeli officials signed an order last week to impose an excise tax on lubricants and solve ...

Vanol FZE is preparing to unveil a lubricant blending plant in Dubai with capacity of 75,000 metric tons per year, a launch pad for its plan to enter ...

Dorf Ketal Chemicals and TriBonds Chemical Co. announced today the formation of a joint venture that will manufacture lubricant additive components an ...

Iranian regulators recently authorized a 41% hike in prices for gasoline and diesel automotive engine oils. The country’s Consumer and Producer Prot ...

Egypt’s Misr Petroleum has reached an agreement for the company’s joint venture with Emirates National Oil Co. to produce finished lubricants at M ...

Saudi Arabia’s main business association formed a committee this month to promote reforms for the nation’s finished lubricant and base oil markets ...

Lubricating grease production in Europe fell 7% in 2020, according to the latest survey by the United States-based National Lubricating Grease Institu ...

German independent lubricants blender Fuchs Petrolub SE announced on March 12 a joint venture in Egypt with longtime partner Alhamrani Group of Saudi ...

Perhaps more than other regions, base oil supply in Europe and the Middle East has been severely constrained since the end of 2020. Industry insiders ...

Luberef launched an initiative to encourage lubricant blenders to locate at a site adjacent to its base oil plant in Yanbu’ al Bahr, Saudi Arabia, t ...

A joint venture of United States-based Colonial Chemical Inc. announced on Jan. 20 that it broke ground on a specialty chemicals factory that will be ...

Italmatch Chemicals Group acquired Israel Chemicals’ RecoPhos Project Technology, boosting the group’s development of a process for production of ...

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 ...

The end of the worst part of the COVID-19 pandemic may be in sight, but it could still be some time before the Middle East oil industry recovers from ...

Although COVID-19 impacted the economies of Africa and the Middle East in three key ways – the cost of coping with the pandemic, suppressed oil pric ...

Lubricant demand within the Gulf Cooperation Council is expected to grow at a moderate pace in the coming years, as member countries diversify their e ...

Discouraging imports of low-grade blended lubricants and curtailing sales of straight mineral oils promoted as finished products are two key ways Nige ...

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. said Monday that it will now guarantee that its base stocks meet specified parameters for viscosity index and tendency to e ...

A district judge in Sodertorn, Sweden, on Thursday approved Nynas AB’s petition to extend its court-administered reorganization process for another ...

The European Union’s energy demand is forecast to decline by as much as 30% by 2050, depending on how quickly policy measures and societal behavior ...