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Russian Chemical Co. bought exclusive rights to manufacture and market Rikos products, one of the countrys oldest grease brands, the company told Lube ...

SINGAPORE – Demand for higher quality lubricants is rising fast in China, the worlds largest lubricants market. At the same time, nearly every c ...

State-run Petrleo de Venezuela S.A. announced it will produce 6,500 barrels per day of API Group II base oil at its Amuay refinery with an estimated 2 ...

ExxonMobil opened a new Asia Pacific oil analysis laboratory at the companys Shanghai Technology Center in China. Signum, ExxonMobils oil analysis pr ...

Russian lubricant marketer Lukoil launched its key European brand Genesis in Russia last week, reaffirming its grip on the countrys automotive lubes m ...

ExxonMobil yesterday said it plans to expand API Group II base stock production capacity at its Singapore refinery by early 2015. The company manufac ...

The European Lubricating Grease Institute and the European Committee for Standardization both want to create a standard for greases to reduce noise an ...

The U.S. federal court of Charleston, S.C., sentenced former Delfin Group USA president Markos Baghdasarian to three years in prison for exporting lub ...

Amet Packaging Inc. has acquired assets of Oden Corp., adding to its pool of packaging companies and extending its reach into the lubes and greases pa ...

Indias Snarled Logistics

June 12, 2013

MUMBAI, India – Indias logistics industry is highly unorganized and fragmented, and costs are high, posing challenges for the worlds third large ...

Mag Lubricants new 60,000 tons per year blending plant in Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates, is fully operational following a $50 million investment fro ...

MUMBAI, India – India will feel the greatest demographic and social pressures in coming decades, as young people spiral up consumption, shops tu ...

Kenyas Energy Regulatory Commission recently invited the Kenyan public to submit written comments on proposed regulations that would require all busin ...

Obsolete refinery technology prompted Forte Invest to shut down the API Group I base oil plant in Orsk, Russia, in early 2013, but base oil production ...

Heritage Crystal-Clean recently settled on $50,000 of Indiana state fines after routine inspections uncovered waste management violations. The Indian ...

Martin Midstream Partners announced last week that it expects to close on its acquisition of NL Grease by the end of July 2013. The Kilgore, Texas-ba ...

Puralube is investing 40 million to build a third rerefinery at its Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park in Troeglitz, Germany, bringing its API Group I ...

MUMBAI, India – Executives from Fuchs and Total offered international perspectives on doing business in India at last months ICIS Indian Base Oi ...

MOSCOW – The Russian government recently adopted a waste oil treatment regulation for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, an ...

As a result of growing passenger car sales, Russias motor oil market saw a steady increase in sales during the first half of 2012 compared to a year e ...