A major Chinese supplier of lubricant packaging equipment has established a subsidiary to help clients use QR codes to battle counterfeiting. The step ...

U.S. base oil refiners worked in high gear during the first half of 2018, producing nearly 34 million barrels of base stocks - the highest total in at ...

Gazpromneft-Lubricants reported that it sold 319,000 metric tons of base oils and finished lubricants during the first half of 2018, a 20 percent incr ...

Worries about the Middle East finished lubricants market have dominated recent news headlines, but according to one industry veteran, the outlook for ...

Chinese coal giant Shanxi LuAn Group issued a statement Saturday denying a recent report that its 50-50 joint venture with Shanghai-based Naco Lubrica ...

Xinxiang Richful Lube Additive Co., a Chinese additives supplier, plans to focus more on emerging markets because of the U.S. governments recent decis ...

Japans Mitsui Chemicals plans to build a second plant in Japan for the production of its ethylene alpha olefin viscosity modifiers, according to a pre ...

Rosnefts sales of what it calls premium lubricants rose by 17 percent to 70,000 metric tons in 2017 thanks to stepped-up marketing in the corporate an ...

The South African Competition Commission last week qualified a bid by a group backed by Swiss mining company Glencore to acquire 75 percent of Chevron ...

Slack wax from Russia and Uzbekistan is in high demand and selling for higher prices in Europe due to the holiday season in Poland and technical issue ...

Australian lubricant suppliers are unusually buoyant these days, talking about a pick-up in sales and demand in a market thats been in the doldrums fo ...

As the quality of lubricants in China continues to rise, competition among suppliers - especially of industrial lubes - is intensifying and pushing co ...

The outlook for the process oil market in India remains upbeat, driven by demand from the power sector as well as the cosmetics and pharmaceutical ind ...

Master Fluid Solutions has invested in a new metalworking fluids blending plant in Taicang, China, the company announced on Wednesday. The new facilit ...

Ever-increasing demand on insufficient infrastructure widens the gap between generation capacity and consumption of electricity. Lubricant-thirsty pri ...

Sanctions drafted by the United States senate aim to punish Russian oil companies and banks, but Russian sources insist they will not harm the country ...

In most markets, base oil prices have risen significantly in the past two years, but in Nigeria, they have headed in the opposite direction. Local lub ...

Vietnams declining automotive sales may hinder lubricant market growth. To stay competitive, patience to develop a reliable lubricant distribution net ...

Russian authorities adopted a bill that will increase export tariffs for motor oils, fuels and other distillates by 4 percent in 2021.

The coal-to-liquids base oil operations that Shanxi Luan Group is opening in Changzhi, China, this year includes a plant with capacity to make 3,000 m ...