BP reported a triple-digit increase in fourth-quarter profitability for its Castrol lubricants business and a slight improvement for the full year 202 ...

Turkmenistan’s only base oil plant has been running at less than half of its 150,000 metric tons per year capacity due to a halted project to modern ...

SKF opened a research and development and manufacturing site for lubrication management equipment in Taicang, China, last month. It is one of several ...

Operating income was down for the fourth quarter and full year for both SK Enmove’s and S-Oil’s base oil and lubricants businesses, while Hyundai ...

Sales of four-wheel automobiles in Southeast Asia decreased 2% in 2023, while sales of motorcycles and scooters rose 4%, according to Asean Automotive ...

The United States exported 74% more in November than the same month last year and also imported 36% more base oil, according to government agency data ...

Brazil’s base oil imports volume surged 48% in December, compared to the same month last year, while the full-year 2023 total was up 9% from 2022’ ...

Afton Chemical suffered drops in sales and operating profit for the fourth quarter plus a dip in sales for the full year of 2023 but achieved a health ...

Aminol, one of the largest lubricant marketers in Azerbaijan, produced 46,000 metric tons of finished products in 2023, most of which shipped to forei ...

Lukoil’s refinery in Volgograd, Russia, site of a major lubricant manufacturing complex, was struck last weekend by a drone purportedly launched by ...

Vickers Oils announced it has built a lubricant blending plant in the Leeds, United Kingdom, area dedicated to production of food-grade lubricants. Of ...

SK Enmove and Hyundai Motor Group entered an agreement last week to jointly develop refrigerants for heating and cooling the passenger compartment in ...

Hongrun Petrochemical Technology Co. has commissioned a white oil project that includes an API Group III plant at its oil refinery in Weifang, Shandon ...

Japan’s finished lubricant demand edged up 1% in 2023, while its lubricants production declined 6%, according to data released Jan. 31 by a governme ...

BASF and Lubrizol struck a deal last week for the latter to produce and distribute several products from two lines of industrial lubricants under BASF ...

Renewable base stock supplier Novvi emerged from voluntary bankruptcy last week with a new ownership structure and a capital infusion aimed at helping ...

United States base oil production declined 8% in November, compared to the same month last year. November’s output totaled 4.3 million barrels, comp ...

Italian refiner Eni stated Monday that the base oil plant at its Livorno, Italy, fuels refinery will close permanently when the site converts to refin ...

TotalEnergies and waste management firm Veolia have formed a partnership to recycle used automotive lubricant containers in the United Arab Emirates. ...

Shell last week announced plans to convert a fuels refinery in Wesseling, Germany, to produce API Group III base oils. The company will cease fuels pr ...