The sidelining of base oil plants operated by Venezuelas national oil company may be crippling that nations lubricant industry, but markets elsewhere ...

Curacaos government suspended its impending selection of a new operator for its Isla Refinery until a probe into corruption allegations regarding the ...

Venezuela completed an initial payment to defunct Canadian gold miner Crystallex International last week as part of a $1.2 billion amended settlement ...

Shell announced last week the closing of its sale of downstream assets in Argentina to Raizen - a 50-50 joint venture between the oil major and Brazil ...

Croda International is seeing the fruits of its strategic investments in Brazil, with subsidiary Croda do Brasil completing the first full-year of ope ...

After several years of tribulation, Brazils economy is making a much-awaited recovery. An economist said recently that that recovery is of great inter ...

Base oil imports to Brazil have increased sharply in 2018, jumping 38 percent in the first five months of the year compared to the same period of 2017 ...

After several years of decline, Brazil's lubricant industry is showing signs of reviving, according to speakers at an industry conference in Rio de Ja ...

Trafigura Group Pte. Ltd. closed last month on the purchase of most of Pampa Energias downstream assets in Argentina. The transaction includes a lubri ...

Venezuelas economic and political crisis has hammered its vaunted petroleum industry, and the nations lubricant market is suffering along with it.

Group design, a holistic approach or a team effort - however its described, the key to achieving the next set of automotive fuel economy goals is work ...

Shell announced yesterday that it agreed to sell its downstream business in Argentina to Raizen, a 50-50 joint venture with Brazilian sugar producer C ...

Petrobras blending plant in Duque de Caxias, Brazil, will be one of the worlds five largest when an expansion there is completed in 2020, the company ...

The Freedonia Group and Kline and Co. agree about the biggest factors that will affect automotive lubricant markets in the Americas in coming years, b ...

Automotive lubes are breaking away from the regional economic downturn to run neck-and-neck with global trends.

Russian oil major Rosneft began shipping an emergency supply of base oils and other petrochemical products to Cuba earlier this year after the Caribbe ...

Petrobras is reviving a dormant plan to expand its lubricant blending plant in Duque de Caxias, Brazil. Expected to begin this year and end by 2020, t ...

Brazils finished lubricant demand declined another 7 percent to 1.15 million metric tons in 2016, according to an industry insider, meaning South and ...

Shifts in the regions political scene and trends in the automotive sector indicate a slow but positive outlook for South Americas lubricants market.

Fuchs Petrolub SE and Cosans lubricant production and distribution arm – renamed Moove last year – reported increased profits and sales fo ...