Castrol India reported that its second quarter income fell to 1.21 billion rupees (U.S. $21.9 million), a decrease of 15.16 percent from last years se ...

Shelves loaded with several thousands tons of packaged motor oil collapsed in a St. Petersburg, Russia, warehouse on July 15, causing an oil spill abo ...

SINGAPORE – Sinopecs API Group II/III base oil capacity, 410,000 metric tons per year today, will soar to 1 million t/y by 2015 to help meet Chi ...

In a bid to compete with imports, Russia’s biggest lubricants marketer LLK-International recently made quite a few supply contracts with the cou ...

A dramatic increase in export numbers reported by Belarus for base oils and lubricants in the first quarter of 2012 has many observers of the Russian ...

The European Council repealed an anti-dumping duty on furfuraldehyde from China, saying in recent years the EUs industry had fully recovered while pri ...

Petronas Lubricants International has global ambitions and a new base oil futurist to help it succeed. Joe Rousmaniere, until recently the chief exec ...

MOSCOW – Russias inability to produce high quality base oils and lube additives is problematic, but the bigger issue it faces today is the lack ...

Independent lubricant blender Fuchs Petrolub plans a A.$5 million expansion in Australia of its Sunshine facility and a major redevelopment of its New ...

Gazprom Neft opened its new 70,000 metric tons per year lubricants blending plant in Omsk, Western Siberia, and expects an additional 110,000 t/y upgr ...

Spains Repsol YPF changed its name to Repsol S.A. after Argentinas nationalization of YPF, and indicated a base oil expansion project at its Cartagena ...

Evonik Oil Additives plans to build a new plant in the Asia-Pacific region to almost double current lubricant additives capacity there by 2015. The c ...

Neftgazsbyt acquired a 51.9 percent stake in the Mendeleev-Rusoil fuel refinery and lubricants plant from Slavneft for an undisclosed amount. The sal ...

The production of PAOs in Russia could resume by 2014 once a major petrochemical company completes recently authorized modernization to its alpha olef ...

Todays economic forecast may be cloudy, but the past two years were good for Germany’s grease industry, with sales reaching pre-recession levels ...

Bahrains first base oil plant was a large API Group III joint venture that opened late last year. The second is a tiny Group I facility on schedule to ...

Russias Ministry of Economic Development yesterday said the government will review exempting base oil from the new export duty, which one analyst says ...

ADM Capital and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) jointly paid 48 million (U.S. $61 million) for a 30 percent stake in Bulga ...

Infineum announced plans to build a new lubricant additive manufacturing complex in China, subject to approval by its Board of Directors. The size of ...

MOSCOW – Driven by strong demand for premium products, China imported a record 2.7 million tons of base oil last year, continuing a six-year tre ...