Hong Kongs Yips Chemical Holdings Ltd. posted a loss of HK $2.9 million (U.S. $374,000) for its lubricants division in 2014, down from a profit of HK ...

As part of an effort to bolster profits, automobile dealers and manufacturers in Malaysia and Indonesia are expanding aftermarket oil change businesse ...

Russian lube maker LLK International landed a supply deal in the countrys Far East region, while Gazpromneft-Lubricants opened its first fast lube cha ...

The worlds two biggest lubricant suppliers, Shell and ExxonMobil, both decided in recent years, that it was time to scale back operations in Australia ...

The Philippine Supreme Court last week dismissed oil company motions to reconsider or amend a November order for them to vacate a major petroleum prod ...

China National Offshore Oil Co. expects to open a base oil plant in Taizhou, China, by the end of this year, and it has already agreed to supply a sig ...

Russias base oil producers envision modernizing their plants to add 1.6 million metric tons per year of API Group II and III capacity by the early 202 ...

Demand for higher viscosity index oils has risen exponentially in recent years, which spurred a rush to upgrade hydrocracker bottoms at refineries aro ...

Just shy of its two-year anniversary, the United Kingdom Lubricants Associations subsidiary, Verification of Lubricants Standards, had garnered 19 mem ...

Boris Kamchev reviews growth projections for Russian automotive lubes.

Sales revenues at U.S. fast lube facilities jumped 20 percent from a year ago, according to National Oil & Lube News 2015 Tops in the Industry Ra ...

BASF announced plans March 4 to significantly expand its production capacity for 20 specialty amines at its chemical complex in Ludwigshafen, Germany. ...

Gazpromneft-Lubricants is pushing to enter the markets of China and Libya; for the former it plans to open local production by 2019, in the latter it ...

In November, the Supreme Court of the Philippines took decisive action to end a 14-year dispute over the existence of Pandacan Oil Depot. Less than fo ...

Graincorp this month officially opened a liquid terminals facility near Sydney, with base oils distributor Hilditch Pty leasing all 10 of the 1,250 cu ...

Russias Gazpromneft-Lubricants plans to establish distribution channels in China this year and to build a production facility there by 2019, the compa ...

Birch Hill Equity Partners completed its purchase of Newalta Corp.s Industrial Division last week, including its rerefinery in North Vancouver, Canada ...

Lubricants producers in Africa say the fluctuation of the foreign exchange rate to U.S. dollars has mitigated the impact of declining base oil prices ...

H&R Group yesterday said it patented a process to convert low-value oil refinery by-products into high-quality process oils and other specialties ...

BioAmber Inc. noted this week that its 30,000 metric ton per year succinic acid plant in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada – which it says will be the wor ...