South America

Calumet Specialty Product Partners L.P. reported net income of more than $16 million for the first quarter, much improved from a net loss in the year- ...

Curacao officials are again making rounds with potential partners interested in managing and modernizing the countrys Isla refinery, the government an ...

The new owner of a blending plant in Avellaneda, Argentina has entered a contract to make lubricants for Puma Energy, and that means the facility will ...

Brazils government is considering a proposed overhaul of its regulations of chemicals - a step that would be in line with the growing numbers of natio ...

The United States energy demand is projected to remain essentially flat out to 2040, down just 1 percent, and Brazil's is expected to increase 2.2 per ...

Moove - Cosans lubricant production and distribution arm - capped off an auspicious run in 2018 with a strong fourth quarter, increasing revenue and k ...

Except for Venezuela, lubricant demand in South Americas Andes region has been growing in recent years, and the biggest beneficiaries have been local ...

Mexico Demands Quality

February 19, 2019

With new national lube standards on the books and the latest trade agreement in place, the country is pushing toward better oils.

Curacaos Isla Refinery is taking a step back in its search for a new manager after its preferred bidder withdrew from negotiations, refinery officials ...

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 ...