Saudi Aramco announced Jan. 18 that Houston-based Aramco Trading Americas LLC will be the sole supplier and “offtaker” of Motiva Enterprises – o ...

Auto sales in the United States declined 8% to 13.7 million units in 2022, the lowest full-year sales total since 2011, according to data released by ...

The posted price decreases implemented earlier this month seemed to have elicited the response that suppliers had hoped for as orders have picked up, ...

Leaders of Mexico, the United States and Canada all have called for private businesses from the latter two companies to participate in the former’s ...

TCL Specialties LLC, a subsidiary of India’s Thirumalai Chemicals Ltd., will break ground this month on two manufacturing facilities in West Virgini ...

In another twist of the Isla Refinery saga, Curacao government officials confirmed the preferred bidder seeking to operate the facility provided sever ...

The dust has begun to settle after a busy week of posted price announcements, although a couple of price reductions will be going into effect this wee ...

Over the last few days, a vast majority of paraffinic producers and rerefiners communicated posted price decreases, shortly after SK Lubricants Americ ...

The United States imported 88% more base oil in October than in the same month in 2021, while exports for the month were flat, according to data relea ...

Base oil production in the United States dropped to 4.4 million barrels, the third straight month that the volume was below 5 million barrels, and 16% ...

The freezing winter storm that forced a number of United States refineries, natural gas wells and utility companies to close last week may have had a ...

A powerful winter storm sweeping across the United States over the last week forced several refineries and gas production sites to shut down temporari ...

Shell, through its subsidiary Pennzoil-Quaker State, acquired the parent company of Allied Reliability Inc., an industrial services and maintenance pr ...

United States President Joe Biden’s administration published a final rule last week tightening caps on heavy-duty truck emissions of nitrous oxides. ...

In model year 2021, the average estimated real-world carbon dioxide emission rate for all new vehicles sold in the United States fell by 2 grams per m ...

The calendar year is winding down, but one company livened the base oil market a bit this week with an unusually late announcement of price cuts. SK L ...

A seasonal slowdown in demand, the release of hurricane-related product provisions, and the return to production of a number of plants following outpu ...

Shell announced that its Pennzoil-Quaker State Co. purchased a 49% interest in Blue Tide Environmental LLC, which plans to bring a Group II rerefinery ...

Oleochemical producer Oleon acquired a blending plant in Conroe, Texas, the company announced this week. Oleon’s esters are used in lubricants, incl ...

Market participants agreed that it was difficult to forecast product needs for upcoming months as recent trends have not been consistent with those se ...