Russian oil major Lukoil recently signed lubricants supply contracts with a number of business and government customers in northern Russia, Sweden, Ro ...

Indonesian motorcycle retailer PT Mitra Pinasthika Mulia plans to use proceeds from a recent stock offering to build a new blending plant for its lubr ...

Hiap Huat Holdings opened its third and largest waste oil recycling plant last week. Located in Pulau Indah, Malaysia, the plant has the capacity to m ...

BP and Caltex will sever their Australian joint venture, the Australasian Lubricant Manufacturing Co., which supplies nearly half of the country's lub ...

Lubricating Specialties Co. President Sydney Thwaites and Vintage Capital Partners II, L.P. have acquired full ownership of the independent blender, a ...

Metalworking fluids manufacturer Metalloid Corp. opened a new 54,000 square foot facility in Jacksonville, Texas, that includes laboratory, office and ...

The European Commission on Jan. 15 approved Lukoils acquisition of Austrian energy group OMVs non-retail lubricants business, including a 35,000 tons ...

A booming automotive market has pulled Brazils lubricant demand to sixth largest in the world, according to an IHS report published late last year. Br ...

Lube Report Asia has launched, bringing breaking news of Asia’s vibrant lube industry to your inbox every Tuesday. Check out the current issue a ...

Base stock sellers and buyers in China now have a platform where they can comingle in search of mutually beneficial deals. Since last month, base stoc ...

Saudi Aramco has agreed to buy most of Hanjin Energys stake in S-Oil, according to several reports, giving the Saudi oil company a controlling share i ...

Gulf Oil Ltd. said late last year that it has entered three more markets - Kazakhstan, South Sudan and Croatia. The Indian lubricants and fuels suppli ...

WD-40s net income totaled $11.5 million for the quarter ending Nov. 30, up 5 percent from the year-earlier period, while net sales were up slightly at ...

Japans Idemitsu Kosan Co. announced last week the start-up of a new lubricant plant in Haiphong City, Vietnam. Officials said the 31,000 tons per year ...

Shell and Hyundai extended their Russian agreement for lubricants supply, training, technical support and marketing events to a five-year period. Unde ...

The Petroleum Quality Institute of America issued an advisory last week to warn consumers that a sample of Valvolines NextGen SAE 5W-20 failed to meet ...

Investment giant Berkshire Hathaway agreed to divest around $1.4 billion of Phillips 66 common stock in exchange for Phillips 66s flow improver segmen ...

Chinas Hainan Handi Sunshine Petrochemical Co. is preparing to build a base oil plant that will increase its capacity from 300,000 metric tons per yea ...

Japans Idemitsu Kosan Co. announced last week the start-up of a new lubricant plant in Haiphong City, Vietnam. Officials said the 31,000 ton per year ...

Lanka IOC is moving forward with plans to enter lubricant markets in Southeast Asia. A Bahrainian consulting firm said it was retained to help develop ...