Southeast Asia

The Singapore Lube Park - a joint venture between Sinopec, Total and Shell - officially opened in the islands Tuas area last week. The facility includ ...

Afton Chemical opened a lubricant additives factory in Singapore last week, joining the ongoing march of lubricant and additive suppliers to Asia and ...

Hyrax Oil, of Malaysia, will construct a blending plant in Sri Lanka to supply lubricants for national oil company Ceylon Petroleum Corp. as part of a ...

Japan's JX Nippon Oil & Energy will purchase 8 percent of state-owned petroleum company Vietnam National Petroleum Group, known as Petrolimex.

Like passenger cars and trucks, motorcycles in Asia are facing growing pressure for fuel economy and emissions controls, and this, combined with consu ...

Japans Idemitsu Kosan Co. and Kuwait Petroleum International Ltd. plan to set up a joint venture to distribute petroleum products, including lubricant ...

Filipino oil giant Petron said its lubes sales in Malaysia grew by double digits last year thanks to marketing at its service stations and increased b ...

Indonesias state-owned Pertamina Lubricants said it hopes its cross-promotional campaign with national airline Garuda Indonesia will result in greater ...

Most marketers would agree its not easy to expose a lubricants brand to 4.7 billion people, but Gulf Oil says it can potentially accomplish that by sp ...

Malaysias state-owned Petronas Lubricants International plans to increase sales in Australia and New Zealand with a new marketing company, PLI Austral ...

Biodiesel continues gaining ground in Indonesia and Malaysia. Indonesia raised its requirement for biodiesel content in diesel from 10 percent to 20 p ...

Despite a 4 percent drop in Southeast Asias sales of four-wheel vehicles in 2015 and a 12 percent slide in motorcycle and scooter sales, industry anal ...

Vietnam Cuts Lube Import Tax

February 16, 2016

Vietnam no longer collects tariffs on lubricants imported from Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states, which will open up the countrys g ...

As warranties expire on the first waves of Indonesia's low-cost green cars, independent automobile workshops are likely to see significant growth in t ...

Lubricant blenders in Indonesia have an enormous and growing surplus of manufacturing capacity - more than 50 percent, according to government officia ...

Croda Expands Singapore Plant

December 29, 2015

Croda International Plc announced last week that it completed an expansion that doubled the size of its alkoxylation plant in Singapore.

German lubricant marketer Lubricant Consult GmbH opened a blending plant in Binan, the Philippines, saying the facility will serve as its springboard ...

Base stocks produced at a Pertamina refinery in Cilacap, Indonesia, would be upgraded as part of a multi-billion retrofit agreed to by the Indonesian ...

ExMo Reenters Vietnam

December 1, 2015

ExxonMobil is reentering the Vietnamese finished lubricants market via two distributors after selling its blending plant and most other lube assets th ...

Pertamina Lubricants plans to increase overseas sales by expanding blending plants in Thailand and Indonesia, according to company sources.