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Castrol India recorded a 21 percent gain in profits for its most recent quarter, Balmer Lawries lube segment made profit after being in the red last y ...

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange has told Tianhe Chemicals that it must hire a forensic accountant to address questions about its 2014 finances before tra ...

A recently signed law in Nigeria, the Standards Organization of Nigeria Act of 2015, puts more teeth in the governments ability to crack down on subst ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Despite uncertainty over crude oil prices, there are grounds for optimism in the base oils market, according to an ...

Russian police confiscated nearly 6,000 liters of counterfeit motor oil in a raid in Nizhny Novgorod as part of a bigger anti-counterfeiting crackdown ...

Gulf Petrochem Group inaugurated its new storage terminal in the United Arab Emirates. The terminal can house all classes of petroleum products includ ...

Tianhe Chemicals is in the midst of building two lubricant additive factories that it plans to open next year, in Dubai and Singapore.

Gunvor Group plans to shut down a crude distillation unit and API Group I base oil plant at Kuwait Petroleum Internationals refinery in Rotterdam, Net ...

Fire last week at distributor Tekhnorynok Avtomasels warehouse in Bryansk injured none, but caused possibly several million rubles in damage, accordin ...

Safety-Kleens parent Clean Harbors has carved out its base oils and lubricants business under the new name Kleen Performance Products. All of rerefine ...

South Koreas grace period for companies that failed to perform a mandated assessment of chemicals they supply will expire Nov. 21.

SK Profit Up, Sales Down

October 27, 2015

SK Lubricants' third quarter sales dropped 5 percent year over year, but its operating profit rose 13 percent as weaker crude oil prices yielded bette ...

Idemitsu Kosan Co. has completed an expansion that increases the capacity of its Tianjin, China, lubricant blending plant to 110,000 metric tons per y ...

Castrol Expands in China

October 27, 2015

Castrol has begun an expansion of its lubricant blending plant in the Eastern China port city of Taicang.

Automotive

October 21, 2015

Steve Swedberg gives us a glimpse into the future of car engines (hint: its turbocharged!).

ROVINJ, Croatia – Lubricant demand in the former Yugoslavia slumped by 29 percent over the past 10 years, battered by low industrial output and ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The Middle East is being buffeted by economic, market and supply changes that promise to alter the way the its lub ...

BOCA RATON, Fla. – Congress may finally pass reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act next week, American Chemistry Council lobbyist Rudy Unde ...

CPC and Shell Lubricants decided not to relocate base oil and lubricant blending operations that were closed in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, a source close to t ...

Shell said it is within weeks of opening its first lubricant blending plant in Indonesia - a facility north of Jakarta with capacity of 120,000 metric ...