One person died and nine were injured Thursday night in an explosion at S-Oil’s refinery in Onsan, South Korea. The incident, which occurred as work ...

Malaysia’s Petronas Chemicals Group Berhad announced Tuesday it will acquire Sweden-based specialty chemicals company Perstorp Holding AB for €2.3 ...

Moove, Brazil-based Cosan’s lubricants arm, reported higher profits and revenue despite lower sales volume in the first quarter. The São Paulo-base ...

Oil giant Shell signed an agreement to sell its retail and lubricant businesses in Russia to privately owned Lukoil, the largest lubricant marketer an ...

Evonik announced last week that it will exit its Performance Materials business unit, which supplies some intermediate chemicals used to make lubrican ...

The European Automobile Manufacturers Association published this month an update to its ACEA Engine Oil Sequences for heavy-duty engines, providing in ...

A draft standard for lubricants for heavy-duty engines running on natural gas has cleared the project review stage and been formally accepted as a dev ...

Brazil’s base oil output – mostly API Group I oils – declined 6% to 44,000 metric tons in March, while base oil imports remained well below the ...

Shell is negotiating with an unidentified party to sell its lubricant blending plant in Torzhok, Russia, along with its network of fuel stations in th ...

The European Union announced last week firm plans to impose an embargo on Russian oil and refined products, including base oils and lubricants, by the ...

S-Oil reported a slight increase in profits for its base oil and lubricants business for the quarter ending March 31, while fellow South Korean base o ...

Companies in China’s lubricant industry are striving to continue delivering products to clients during stringent government lockdowns – imposed in ...

Japan’s production and exports of lubricants both remained steady throughout the first quarter of this year, while domestic sales fell more than 10% ...

Base oil production in the United States rose by 34% in February, compared to the same month last year, a U.S. government agency reported last week. O ...

Brazilian energy company Raizen said last week that it completed its acquisition of Shell’s lubricant business in Brazil, which it agreed to purchas ...

German lubricant maker Fuchs Petrolub SE posted a first-quarter 6% decline in earnings after tax and a 16% increase in sales, citing several factors f ...

Nigeria’s government and industry have worked for years to staunch the flow of substandard lubricants in the country. One industry insider suggested ...

Indonesia’s sales and exports of motorcycles fell by double digits in March, compared to the same month last year, but the Association of Indonesia ...

Sinopec’s Yanshan Petrochemical Co. has begun producing API Group III base oils, joining the growing list of Chinese refiners that claim to make Gro ...

SK Lubricants posted a 54% year-to-year increase in operating profit for the quarter ended March 31, according to results the company filed today. The ...