Sub-Saharan Africa is forecast for slow but steady growth in the next few years. But the continents inadequate infrastructure remains a daunting chall ...

Petro-Canada Lubricants announced Aug. 5 it is expanding its distribution in Europe to improve the availability of bulk products. Now our customers wi ...

Ukrainian authorities thwarted an organized group in the Rivne Oblast that had allegedly been making and selling fake motor oils under the labels of p ...

Tide Water Oil Co. (India) is gearing up to enter South African and Sudanese markets with its Veedol automotive lubricants, license sales of its produ ...

A Nigerian union of tanker drivers recently raised charges for transportation of base oils, causing a tiff between drivers and lubricant blenders. Unt ...

Cost increases at MJL Bangladesh Ltd. caused a 36 percent drop in profits for the first half of 2015 despite higher sales, while Indias GP Petroleums ...

Shell has agreed to sell its 75 percent stake in Tongyi Lubricants to United States-based equity firm The Carlyle Group and Tongyis founder and joint ...

Indias Tide Water Oil Co. is gearing up to enter South African and Sudanese markets, license sales of its products in Bangladesh, and to relaunch its ...

MOSCOW-Russian oil major Tatneft and subsidiary Nizhnekamskneftekhim announced plans to restart polyalphaolefins production at its plant in Nizhnekams ...

Quaker Chemical Corp. acquired Spanish industrial lubes and grease company Verkol last week for $32.4 million. Quaker, of Conshohocken, Pa., said that ...

Fuchs Petrolub acquired Sweden-based Statoil Fuel & Retail Lubricants AB for an undisclosed amount. SFR Lubricants is part of Couche-Tard Luxembou ...

Royal Dutch Shell said it has not yet left the Pandacan Oil Depot in Manila, despite the passing of a deadline set by local government.

Castrol India filed record profit in its second quarter, up 49 percent at Rs 281.8 crores (U.S. $44 million) compared to 188.8 crores in the three mon ...

Japanese petroleum major Idemitsu Kosan will purchase Royal Dutch Shells 33.2 percent stake in Showa Shell Sekiyu KK with an aim of merging with SSSKK ...

Hainan Handi Sunshine Petrochemical Ltd. is moving forward again with a previously stalled plan to build another base oil plant at the site of its exi ...

The Russian government imposed a new petrochemical industry taxation rule that envisions gradual decrease on an annual basis of the export tax for cru ...

The American Chemistry Council launched a U.S. specialty chemical market volume index designed to provide a timely source of market trends for 28 mark ...

A Hydrodec subsidiary leased a 9-acre site in northwest United Kingdom for use in the first phase of its planned 75 million liters per year API Group ...

Liquid natural gas is an increasingly popular source of fuel in China for long-haul buses and trucks, and this means they will require different types ...

SK Innovation on Thursday retracted its application to conduct an initial public stock offering for its base oil and lubricants subsidiary, SK Lubrica ...