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 ...

As the vehicle parc modernizes in Latin America, there is a widening gap between engine oils that new vehicles require and what is available in the ma ...

Vibra Energia’s lubricants business recorded 30% higher profit for 2022 on a 12% increase in sales revenue, while fourth quarter earnings also jumpe ...

API Group I and II base oil availability in South America increased in 2022 due to low prices in Asia-Pacific and the United States, caused by Western ...

While Petrobras and Grepar Participacoes await the conclusion of a second regulator review of Grepar’s bid to buy the Lubnor refinery in Fortaleza, ...

Brazil’s base oil market may have had a down year in 2022, but it’s off to a healthy start in 2023, as domestic production and imports both rose y ...

Cosan’s Moove and HF Sinclair’s lubricants and specialties segment both reported higher profits for 2022 but lower profits in the year’s fourth ...

The Latin American base oil market is going through a challenging time as its top economies – Brazil and Mexico – underperform and domestic base o ...

Retail sales and production of motorcycles in Brazil both increased by 18% in 2022, according to survey results released last month by the Brazilian A ...