Chevron and Ipiranga recently agreed that their Brazil joint venture, Iconic, will distribute Chevron base oils in addition to the finished lubricants ...

Saudi Aramco is entering the South American lubricants market after fully acquiring Chilean blender, distributor and retailer Esmax Distribusción SpA ...

Independent lubricant manufacturer Fuchs Petrolub bought out its partner in a joint venture distributorship in Chile, the company announced this week. ...

Brazil’s base oil production jumped 22%, and its base oil imports rose 14% in July, compared to volumes in the same month last year, a government ag ...

To help reduce potential for environmental contamination, an Argentinian waste management company launched a used lubricant collection and treatment p ...

Colombian oil and gas company Terpel reported hefty increases in gross profit for its lubricants segment in Colombia and Peru, its two major geographi ...

Rerefiner Heritage-Crystal Clean reported a steep fall in second quarter revenues for its oil business segment – which includes oil rerefining, wast ...

Brazil imported 17% less base oil, and the South American country's base oil exports declined 14% in June, compared to the volumes in the same month l ...

Brazil’s base oil production rose 7%, while its base oil import volume fell 24% and its base oil exports plummeted 38% in May, according to data rel ...

A competition court in Brazil today approved Grepar Participacoes’ acquisition of the Lubnor refinery from Petrobras – a decision intended as the ...

Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font unveiled a plan recently to nationalize the country’s lithium industry, declaring that the nation should make t ...

Brazil’s base oil production rose 9% in April, while base oil imports jumped 14%, according to government data released today. Domestic output – m ...

The lubricant segment of Colombian oil and gas company Terpel attained large increases in gross profit in the first quarter in Colombia and Peru, its ...

Police in the Brazilian state of Goias, in a joint operation with government agencies, on May 22 seized more than 4,000 liters of engine oil at a dist ...

Valvoline reported double-digit gains in operating income and sales revenue for the quarter ended March 31, while Moove suffered a massive loss due to ...

Brazil’s base oil production fell 35% in March and was down 7% in the first quarter, compared to the same periods last year, according to the latest ...

The lubricant segment of Colombian oil and gas company Terpel achieved increases in sales volumes and gross profit in 2022 in its two major geographic ...

Colombian oil and gas company Terpel is making investments to expand production capacity at its blending plant in Peru, a company executive confirmed ...

Base oil production and base oil imports volumes in Brazil were again higher in February compared to totals in the same month last year, according to ...

Petrobras has licensed technologies from Chevron Lummus Global for an API Group II base oil plant being built as part of Brazil’s Gaslub project, a ...