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Chevron Oronite announced yesterday that it will install carboxylate capacity at its lubricant additive plant in Singapore.

Ukraines Alternative Fuels and Renewable Energy Association established a committee to provide technology standards and a platform for cooperation by ...

Industry observers say biolubricants are unlikely to take off in Asia unless governments provide incentives or mandates for their use. Malaysia appear ...

Asia-Pacifics energy demand in 2040 will jump 61 percent from what it was in 2010, according to a recent ExxonMobil report.

Russia's Gazprom Neft Lubricants expanded its presence in Southeast Asia by signing a memorandum of cooperation and a supply deal with key Taiwanese a ...

Focus on Mexico

January 6, 2015

Reform of the country's energy sector in 2014 opened the door for new business opportunities and players, but also ushered in a climate of uncertainty ...

Base Oil Report

January 6, 2015

Gabriela Wheeler watches as U.S. base oil prices flee from the advancing supply overhang.

MADRID – Despite its recovering economy, Spains robust capacity for producing base oils and finished lubes far exceeds the countrys demand. With ...

Lubricant producers in Nigeria believe that declining oil prices will not impact finished lubricant prices in the country, saying devaluation of the l ...

Lukoil Expands in Middle East

December 31, 2014

United Arab Emirates-based car dealer Al Habtoor Motors and Russian lube maker Lukoil signed a partnership deal that will expand Lukoils lubricants di ...

Shandong Yuangen Petrochemical announced it is setting up operations to produce its Yuangen brand of lubricants in Singapore for distribution througho ...

Base Oils from Bitumen

December 30, 2014

Sichuan province-based Zhonghai Jinxiang Co. plans to build a facility that will make base oils for industrial lubricants using feedstock from an exis ...

Total announced that it will build a grease plant at its lubricant factory in Tianjin, China. The new plant will have capacity to make 5,000 metric to ...

FAJARDO, Puerto Rico-With feedstock costs rising and demand for used oil-derived products sinking, the used oil market is upside down, said recycling ...

Gazprom Neft Lubricants launched an automated factory fill facility at a Mercedes-Benz heavy duty vehicle assembling plant in Tatarstan, Russia. The f ...

Chevron notified U.S. customers Dec. 19 that prices for Chevron brand finished lubricants, gear oils and greases will generally decrease by up to 3.5 ...

Nynas announced last week the opening of a 32,000 cubic meter storage depot in Singapore, part of a plan to grow its naphthenic base oil business in t ...

Rosneft and heavyweights from several Russian industries have entered lubricant and oil product supply agreements in reaction to the countrys economic ...

Sinopec Expands in Cameroon

December 17, 2014

Sinopec plans to increase its activities in Cameroon – including production and sale of lubricants – through the creation of a new subsidi ...

Transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec said it plans to appoint a contractor early in 2015 to develop the front-end engineering design of its planned rere ...