Malaysia has decided to mandate Euro 4 fuel standards by September 2015 and to progress to Euro 5 by 2020. Meanwhile, a requirement for fuels to conta ...

Sister companies Klueber Lubrication and Chem-Trend will expand their manufacturing facilities in Qingpu, China, parent Freudenberg Chemical Specialit ...

Hanjin Energy last week wrapped up the sale of its 28.4 percent stake in S-Oil Corp. to Saudi Aramco for 1.98 trillion won (U.S. $1.83 billion).

BERLIN – Russian base oil producers envision modernizing their plants to add 1.6 million metric tons per year of API Group II and III capacity b ...

Four more major oil companies notified U.S. customers of finished lubricant price cuts effective from mid-January through mid-February, as the recent ...

The United Kingdom Lubricants Associations program for verifying lubricant quality suspended the membership of Ferguson & Menzies last month afte ...

Shell recently opened a gas-to-liquid base oil hub in Jebel Ali in the United Arab Emirates, making its first delivery in late December. It is the com ...

Automobile sales in China rose 6.9 percent to 23.5 million in 2014 - another record for the worlds largest auto market.

Idemitsu Kosan Co. repudiated a news report suggesting that it has agreed to purchase fellow Japanese major Showa Shell Sekiyu, but it acknowledged th ...

Global base oil demand is expected to remain depressed until the end of the decade. According to a London-based consultancy, this will lead to further ...

Spains capacity for producing base oils and finished lubes add up to a surplus that will far exceed the countrys demand. With that pattern set to cont ...

A seemingly never-ending series of economic crises have taken the European lubricants market on a roller coaster ride. Fuchs Petrolubs Apu Gosalia loo ...

Applications for Group II base oils are on the upswing in Europe and other parts of the world. A critical question is whether these base oils will gai ...

Klines Naira Aslanian covers the prospects for biolube growth in Europe.

The Hamina, Finland, rerefinery formerly owned by L&T Recoil Oy and EcoStream is back in operation under new owner STR Tecoil Ltd. We are up and ...

ExxonMobil and Phillips 66 each informed customers this week of finished lubricant price cuts that will take effect in early February. Along with redu ...

Aegean Marine Petroleum Network announced Jan. 8 that it will begin supplying and marketing marine lubricants and fuels in Germany this month. Operati ...

Japans Mitsui & Co. Ltd. will invest U.S. $44 million in Malaysian-owned oleochemical manufacturer Taiko Palm-Oleo (Zhangjiagang) Co. Ltd., located in ...

Indonesias state-owned Pertamina Lubricants has acquired 75 percent of Thai blender Amaco Production Co., an Amaco official told Lube Report Asia.

Chinas central government yesterday announced another round of tax increases for lubricants and other petroleum products - the third such increase in ...