The Uz-Prista Recycling joint venture opened its first base oil rerefinery in Uzbekistan last week during a ceremony attended by company and governmen ...

Pakistani lubricant supplier Hi-Tech Lubricants Ltd. reported a 110 percent rise in its third-quarter net profit, thanks to higher other income and lo ...

Afton Chemical opened a lubricant additives factory in Singapore last week, joining the ongoing march of lubricant and additive suppliers to Asia and ...

BP announced Thursday that it had sold an 11.5 percent share of Castrol India, leaving it with a 59.5 percent stake. The United Kingdom-based oil majo ...

Boris Kamchev reports on Russias flagging lubricants market.

The Nigerian lubricant market has an estimated local consumption in excess of 540 million liters per year, but is plagued by lack of standardization. ...

The outlook for the European rerefining industry is resoundingly positive, judging from several presentations at a recent industry conference, despite ...

The Eurasian Interstate Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification recently introduced a new standard for heavy-duty motor oils that wil ...

Abu Dhabis state-owned petroleum products distribution firm will open a lubricants and greases plant by 2022 at Khalifa Ports Khalifa Industrial Zone ...

Hyrax Oil, of Malaysia, will construct a blending plant in Sri Lanka to supply lubricants for national oil company Ceylon Petroleum Corp. as part of a ...

Fuchs Petrolub is building a new lubricants blending plant in Suzhou, Chinas Wujiang district to replace a smaller existing plant in Shanghai. The new ...

Most car companies rely on lube producers for their factory-fill engine oils, but one Chinese automaker is committed to making its own. In late April, ...

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. reported a 38 percent jump in its fourth quarter net profit, thanks to sales growth across all key segments.

Q8Oils, the downstream arm of Kuwait Petroleum International, last week opened its expanded and upgraded 111,000-metric tons per year lube blending pl ...

Banners and hoardings – the public placement of billboards or large print advertisements – are one of the leading channels in Africa for l ...

Japan's JX Nippon Oil & Energy will purchase 8 percent of state-owned petroleum company Vietnam National Petroleum Group, known as Petrolimex.

Like passenger cars and trucks, motorcycles in Asia are facing growing pressure for fuel economy and emissions controls, and this, combined with consu ...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – Takreer, the refining arm of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. has started commercial production of base oils at the ...

More than 75 percent of the worlds lubricating grease is thickened with lithium hydroxide or lithium complex soap - but over 90 percent of the grease ...

Japanese metalworking fluids manufacturer Yushiro Chemical Industry Co. expects to complete construction of two plants in China in the second half of ...