MOSCOW — Almost all vertically integrated oil companies in Russia have plans to upgrade their base oil plants, but Rosneft claims a leadership r ...

South Korean base oil refiners SK Lubricants and S-Oil both reported drops in operating income while claiming revenue increases for the first quarter, ...

Irans Pars Oil is preparing to open a second grease plant at its refinery near Tehran. Officials said the new plant, which will have capacity of 2,000 ...

U.S. lubricants and chemicals producer Ashland Inc. and Russias TNK-BP signed a five-year agreement to distribute Valvoline passenger car products in ...

Spanish refiner Repsol and Spains government blasted Argentinas decision to nationalize oil and gas company YPF SA, which would put 51 percent of Reps ...

Base oil capacity in the United States totaled 217,300 barrels per day on Jan. 1, unchanged from 2011, according to American Fuel & Petrochemical ...

Oil Refinery Modrica has begun expansion of its API Group III base oil plant and construction of a new lubricant blending plant, the company said last ...

Shell Russia is setting its sights on Ukraines lubricants market once its 180,000 tons per year blending plant in Torzhok begins full production, the ...

MOSCOW – Russian production of high quality API Groups II and III base oils is predicted to reach 1.7 million tons per year by 2020, meeting dom ...

BASF commissioned a new oxidized polyethylene waxes manufacturing plant at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany. The low-density polyethylene wax that fo ...

STUTTGART, Germany – Mercedes-Benz has adopted a wide-ranging upgrade of service-fill engine oil specifications for its passenger cars and heavy ...

German lubricant producer Rowe Mineraloelwerk GmbH is building a second blending plant to accommodate the growth of its business. The facility – ...

MOSCOW – Russias grease production is expected to grow at an annual rate of 5 to 7 percent after 2014, when new plants will be launched, a resea ...

Russian lubes producer Gazprom Neft-SM plans to break ground on a 15,000 metric ton per year lubricant blending plant in Finland in early 2013. The c ...

Russias Gazprom will produce Texaco-branded marine oils in Russia for U.S. oil major Chevron, Gazprom Neft said yesterday. Under the agreement, Gazp ...

Philippine law enforcement officials confiscated 8,878 bottles of counterfeit Castrol lubricants worth U.S. $37,000 during a raid, the nations state-r ...

Total temporarily cut base oil production at its Gonfreville, France, refinery on March 10, citing a weak market and economy, a company spokesperson c ...

U.S. demand for synthetic lubricants and functional fluids will grow more than 8 percent annually to $7.4 billion in 2015, boosted by modern equipment ...

OSHA yesterday released the final rule revising its Hazard Communication Standard, to align with the United Nations global chemical labeling system. ...

Hup Soon and AP Oil yesterday announced a 50-50 joint venture in Singapore to develop and produce lubricants under a new brand name, to be sold global ...