Base oil production at U.S. refineries reached 27.8 million barrels in the first six months of this year, slumping 5 percent from the 29.3 million bar ...

Heartland Automotive Services, the largest U.S. Jiffy Lube franchisee, appointed Jim Marcum as interim CEO and formed a new Southeast division followi ...

ExxonMobil and Chevron informed U.S. customers of finished lubricant price hikes that take effect in early October, following an earlier markup by She ...

Haver Filling Systems is expanding its warehouse in Conyers, Ga., to increase production capacity so it can meet growing demand for its German-enginee ...

The American Petroleum Institute is suing Bullseye Lubricants for alleged counterfeiting, trademark infringement, trademark dilution, false advertisin ...

QualiChem, which manufactures metalworking fluids and water treatment chemicals, announced last week it has expanded its headquarters, laboratory and ...

Motor oil labeling guidelines have been updated once again, this time as the result of a unanimous vote at a National Conference on Weights and Measur ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners recently announced plans to invest up to $40 million to double synthetic lubricants production at its esters facil ...

Rerefiner Evergreen Oil and parent Evergreen Environmental Holdings designated Clean Harbors Inc. as initial winning bidder for Evergreens assets, acc ...

The U.S. federal court of Charleston, S.C., sentenced former Delfin Group USA president Markos Baghdasarian to three years in prison for exporting lub ...

Amet Packaging Inc. has acquired assets of Oden Corp., adding to its pool of packaging companies and extending its reach into the lubes and greases pa ...

Heritage Crystal-Clean recently settled on $50,000 of Indiana state fines after routine inspections uncovered waste management violations. The Indian ...

Martin Midstream Partners announced last week that it expects to close on its acquisition of NL Grease by the end of July 2013. The Kilgore, Texas-ba ...

A Freedonia Group study forecasts U.S. demand for lubricant additives to grow 4.3 percent annually to nearly $3.9 billion in 2017. That compares to a ...

Universal Environmental Services (Avista Oil USA) said it will commission its rerefinery in Peachtree City, Ga., tomorrow, with base oil shipments beg ...

A California bankruptcy court Monday approved a motion by rerefiner Evergreen Oil and parent Evergreen Environmental Holdings to establish procedures ...

Clean Harbors promoted Executive Vice President of Environmental Sales Jerry Correll to president of Safety-Kleen Environmental Services, replacing Ro ...

OSHA estimates that compliance with the GHS ruling will cost more than $110 million and will represent about 27 percent of compliance costs for the ch ...

Falcon Industrial has acquired Benchmark Fluids for an undisclosed amount, a move that Falcon says will expand its customer base and strengthen its me ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will fine Oil Re-Refining Co. $450,000, unless it properly disposes of 150,000 gallons of PCB-contaminated oi ...