Japans base oil exports surged 21.5 percent last year as production and imports increased and domestic demand continued to shrink, according to figure ...

Chinas lubricant market, which grew more than any other in the world for a decade, is forecast to shrink by an average of 0.4 percent annually over th ...

Panama Petrochem Ltd. and GP Petroleums Ltd. each reported near doubling of their profits for the quarter ended Dec. 31, while Gulf Oil and Savita Oil ...

Valvoline and BP Castrol notified U.S. customers of finished lubricant price increases that take effect in March, citing rising costs for raw material ...

ATIEL, the European lubricants industrys technical association, released a new version of its Code of Practice, which provides guidance for developers ...

Koreas SK Lubricants and S-Oil both recorded higher operating profits in their base oils and lubricants businesses in 2016, though rising crude prices ...

Indonesias Pertamina Lubricants and PT Shell Indonesia have established credit and payment agreements with domestic banks to strengthen distributors c ...

Ever Chemical Industry Co., a Japanese metalworking fluids manufacturer, will start production in Indonesia this year as part of a joint venture with ...

China produced a record 28 million automobiles in 2016, according to official data released last month. The number of units sold hit 28 million as wel ...

Russian base oil exports plunged more than 20 percent to around 700,000 metric tons in the first nine months of 2016, hampered by a supply glut in Eur ...

Chinas energy mix is projected to change out to 2035, with coal consumption declining though still remaining dominant as nuclear and renewables make i ...

Many Chinese lubricant suppliers struggle to find footing in the countrys increasingly overcrowded market. One Xian-based blender said it has found su ...

Singaporean lubricant supplier United Oil Co. will not set up a blending plant in Myanmar as the company discussed last year. Instead, it will supply ...

Lube additive producer Infineum International Ltd. has expanded its operations in Asia with a new subsidiary in India, the worlds third-largest lubric ...

Lubricating Specialties Co. recently acquired the Vistone product line and associated business from Infineum USA L.P. The transaction, which closed De ...

Standard Greases & Specialties Ltd. had intended to gain control of the Andrew Yule Group-managed Tide Water Oil Ltd. upon becoming its largest shareh ...

A large fire broke out Sunday in the base oil plant at TonenGeneral Sekiyu K.K.s refinery in Arida city, Wakayama Prefecture in western Japan. The com ...

The South Korean government has moved to eliminate more than half of all registered domestic lubricants manufacturers in an effort to weed out non-ope ...

South Korean refiner GS Caltex will invest around U.S. $30 million to build a 210,000 metric tons per year lubricants blending facility in Tianjin, Ch ...

Trade flows between the Middle East and Africa are soaring. Better connectivity and the emergence of countries like the United Arab Emirates as major ...