Lubricant prices in many markets have risen in recent months, largely due to the past years run-up in crude oil costs. In Japan, oil marketers are rai ...

Russian industrial lubricants and grease marketer Titan built a new plant in Novocherkassk, introduced a new filling line and entered new markets, a c ...

Lukoil opened a new modernized loading center for lubricants and bitumen products at its refinery in Volgograd, Russia, the company announced earlier ...

When margins are tight and currency is scarce, base oil traders often look for ways to cut costs. One place to look is flexitanks, liquid transport co ...

As the Middle Easts largest lubricants market, Iran is a major buyer and supplier of oil products. But what effects will the U.S. exit of the nuclear ...

The EUs Ecolabel standard for lubricants is being updated. While it has raised some concerns among those in the lubricants industry, its aim to protec ...

A rapidly expanding population and an aspirational middle class that wants mobility offer a highlight to lubricant marketers in India amid a less than ...

Trafigura Group Pte. Ltd. closed last month on the purchase of most of Pampa Energias downstream assets in Argentina. The transaction includes a lubri ...

Total recently completed an upgrade of its lubricant blending plant in Durban, South Africa, including construction of laboratory, part of a plan to b ...

Avista Oil AG and a United Kingdom-based used oil collector formed a joint venture to build a rerefinery in Denmark at the site of an Avista facility ...

A group of major Chinese vehicle makers and energy giants are working on the nations first lubricant specification for diesel truck engines.

Venezuelas economic and political crisis has hammered its vaunted petroleum industry, and the nations lubricant market is suffering along with it.

On both sides of the Atlantic, metal removal fluid suppliers and their customers are relieved by the European Unions extension of regulatory exemption ...

Rosneft is developing fire-resistant turbine oils for Russias nuclear power plants, a product now imported from the United States, company and governm ...

Russian rerefiner efforts to collect used oil are being hindered by the popularity of burning it for fuel and by the inability of authorities to imple ...

China Shenhua and Shanghai Naco Synthetics last week commemorated the opening of a joint venture research center designed to develop coal-to-liquids a ...

Entering into Indias automotive lubricant market may seem like a no-brainer due to the countrys position as one of the globes largest markets, but the ...

Indias Savita Oil Technologies Ltd. - a supplier of transformer oils, white oils, lubricants and other products - reported a net profit of Rs 40.3 cro ...

Ray Masson walks us through a new blending plant business model in the Middle East.

Emeka Umejei explores the spread of Group II base oils in Africa.