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

Mark Lord of Aztec Oils is on a crusade to stop one company dumping cheap lubricants in the U.K. and damaging business.

HydroGraph Clean Power Inc. announced today it will collaborate with Gulf Cryo LLC to produce, distribute and sell of HydroGraph’s graphene in the M ...

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 ...

Shell completed the sale last week of an oil products storage facility in the Jebal Ali Free Zone area of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Used to store l ...

Vanol Opens Plant in Dubai

October 19, 2021

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 ...

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 ...

Financially troubled GP Global announced last week that it has hired a restructuring officer to oversee its quest for capital infusion along with a re ...

GP Global Group disclosed Monday that it is seeking new investors to help it weather a financial crunch caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and related ec ...

India-based Siddharth Grease & Lubes Pvt.’s subsidiary opened a lubricant and grease manufacturing plant in the United Arab Emirates to supply m ...

Authorities in Ajman, United Arab Emirates, confiscated 100,000 packs of fake engine oil after a sweep last week on a counterfeit operation in the tin ...

Fears that the market for aviation lubricants and greases in the Middle East is unravelling as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic are exaggerated, anal ...

Wider use of synthetic engine oils and a shift to electric vehicles could reduce the threat of environmental contamination from waste oil in the Middl ...

Compared to previous engine oil standards, Asia, Middle East and Africa regions may see a quicker rollout of ILSAC GF-6 following its launch in North ...

Higher insurance premiums could put upward pressure on prices for API Group II and III base stocks from the Middle East Gulf after last weeks decision ...

Plummeting automotive sales in the Middle East are stoking fears of a knock-on effect on the regional lubricants market.

Iranian companies are shipping API Group I base oils direct to customers, sidestepping ports in the United Arab Emirates as the United States tightens ...

Eni, OMV Buy Stakes in Adnoc

January 29, 2019

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. signed agreements Sunday selling a combined 35 percent stake in itself to Eni and OMV for a total of $5.8 billion. The comp ...

The Middle East has become a prominent producer and net exporter of API Group II and Group III base oil, using its glut of over 2 million tons of mate ...