Tianhe Chemicals reported Thursday that the auditor of its 2014 financial results resigned after failing to reach a resolution with directors over que ...

With some predicting lubricant consumption in Indonesia will continue to decline, suppliers are vying to grab sales volume by introducing niche 10W en ...

Hainan Handi Sunshine Petrochemical Ltd., one of Chinas leading independent base oils suppliers, announced Sept. 14 that it has entered the finished l ...

ExxonMobil announced last week that it will expand its lubricant blending plant in Singapore to allow production of Mobil 1 engine oils.

Pertamina has expanded its production of viscosity modifiers to a second location - this one at its plant in East Java, Indonesia.

Despite an economic slowdown, suppliers see openings in Southeast Asias largest lubricant market. An insiders look at its vehicles, owners and product ...

Demand keeps shifting toward Groups II and III in Russia and Eastern Europe, but a check on refiners reveals a cautious investment mood.

Russian base oil exports fell 20 percent in 2014 because of growing competition at home and abroad, increased production costs and falling demand in E ...

After years in the doldrums, the rerefined base oils market is garnering an increasingly sizeable market share in the Middle East despite suffering fr ...

Observers agree that Africa will adopt higher grade engine oils in the near future because of the increasing presence of modern hardware on the contin ...

Russian Tatneft pushed the restart of its polyalphaolefins plant in the Republic of Tatarstan to the spring of 2016 as the company experiences procure ...

Tanzanias government introduced a 10 percent per gallon duty on base oils imported into Tanzania, with an additional 1.5 percent railway levy duty. Th ...

While the United States remains the largest country market for finished lubricants, its overall growth is underwhelming, according to a webinar presen ...

Malaysian oleochemicals company IOI Group agreed last week to purchase Germanys Cremer Oleo GmbH for 89.4 million (U.S. $101.3 million).

Scientists at Australias Edith Cowan University have developed a real-time sensor to detect when an engine oil has degraded and needs changing.

Thailand's lubricant market shrank slightly in 2014 but is poised to resume growing thanks to continued expansion of its auto manufacturing industry, ...

Naco Synthetics and Chinese coal company Luan Group opened a polyalphaolefin plant late last month, a Shanxi province facility that uses coal-to-liqui ...

U.S. output of lubricant base oils rose 10 percent in the first six months of this year, versus the same period a year earlier, according to data rele ...

Bulgarian lube maker Prista Oil is upgrading the blending technology at its Ruse lubricants blending plant in Bulgaria, and hopes to persuade others t ...

Total Lubmarine, the marine lubricants arm of French energy giant Total, said its shipping activity in Chinas Tianjin port has resumed following the a ...