North America

Axel Christiernsson AB announced on Monday a multi-million dollar expansion and improvement plan across its three grease plants in the United States, ...

Shell was the largest North American lubricants supplier in 2018, beating out ExxonMobil and Chevron, according to consultancy Kline & Co., which ...

Perrysburg, Ohio-based Master Fluid Solutions announced on Oct. 7 the acquisition of German metalworking fluids manufacturer Wilhelm Dietz GmbH, sayin ...

Energy demand will stay flat in North America and increase by 37 percent in Latin America between 2017 and 2040, according to a new forecast by ExxonM ...

A United States appeals court lifted a hold Monday on Crystallex International Corp.s efforts to seize shares of refiner Citgo as part of a grievance ...

The Environmental Protection Agency issued significant new use rules on Sept. 18 under the Toxic Substances Control Act that approve pre-manufacture n ...

U.S. Base Oil Production Slips

September 18, 2019

During the first half of 2019, the United States base oil production purred like a contented kitten as Asian countries production roared like a hungry ...

U.S. Base Oils: A Balanced Act

September 17, 2019

The breakneck pace of U.S. base oil production slowed in the first half of 2019, creating a more balanced market.

The United States federal government notified California last week that it had begun an antitrust probe of the states recent agreement with four autom ...

U.S. distributors and manufacturers of wax and wax products are bracing for the impact of new tariffs on Chinese imports, which went into effect Sept. ...

Shell Lubricants and Comercial Importadora, S. de R.L. de C.V. - known as CISA - recently announced a new joint venture partnership in Mexico that inc ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP reported a smaller net loss and decreased sales for the second quarter, while Cosans Moove lubricants segment e ...

Four automakers reached an agreement last week with California on a voluntary framework for annual emissions reductions that would speed the transitio ...

The average age of light vehicles in the United States rose more than 10 percent, from 10.6 years in 2010 to 11.7 years in 2018, and is projected to e ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency proposed Friday to ban the use of 2,4,6-Tris(tert-butyl)phenol as a lubricant additive on grounds th ...

Sales by oil change and lubrication shops in the United States reached $6.3 billion in 2018, up 4 percent from 2017, according to a report jointly pub ...

Chevron announced it has agreed for its Richmond, California, base oil plant to begin making API Group III oils that Finnish refiner Neste Corp. will ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. sold its year-old investment in Biosynthetic Technologies in March, according to Calumets first quarter earni ...

The United States wind power capacity grew 8 percent in 2018 to more than 96,400 megawatts, and demand from non-utility buyers grew a record amount, t ...

Industry observers say a new linear alpha olefins unit that ExxonMobil expects to open in 2022 in Baytown, Texas, should reduce its reliance on compet ...