With some predicting lubricant consumption in Indonesia will continue to decline, suppliers are vying to grab sales volume by introducing niche 10W en ...

ExxonMobil announced last week that it will expand its lubricant blending plant in Singapore to allow production of Mobil 1 engine oils.

Pertamina has expanded its production of viscosity modifiers to a second location - this one at its plant in East Java, Indonesia.

Malaysian oleochemicals company IOI Group agreed last week to purchase Germanys Cremer Oleo GmbH for 89.4 million (U.S. $101.3 million).

Thailand's lubricant market shrank slightly in 2014 but is poised to resume growing thanks to continued expansion of its auto manufacturing industry, ...

Dutch additive supplier BRB International is partnering with a Singapore engineering firm to build a viscosity index improver factory that will open n ...

Lanka IOC said it expects to increase its share of the Sri Lanka engine oil market from 17 percent to 23 percent by building more fuel stations. The i ...

Manila officials toured the Pandacan depot recently to check the progress of three oil firms under a Philippines Supreme Court order to vacate it.

Afton Chemical Corp. announced last week that it will expand its new lubricant additives plant in Singapore, increasing its investment there to about ...

Royal Dutch Shell said it has not yet left the Pandacan Oil Depot in Manila, despite the passing of a deadline set by local government.

Solvay recently began producing specialty surfactants at its new alkoxylation plant in Singapore, which it said is the largest of its kind in Asia.

Malaysia is a regional leader in consumption of synthetic and semi-synthetic passenger car motor oils, with an uptake of 40 percent, according to a st ...

Russian chemical producer Orgkhim will break ground on its extender process oils plant in Malaysia by the end of this year, the company told Lube Repo ...

Demand for 10W engine oils should continue growing at healthy rates, a Lubrizol official told a recent industry conference in Singapore, though for di ...

Total announced the opening Friday of a 310,000 metric ton per year blending plant in Singapore - the French energy giants largest lubricant productio ...

Global palm oil production is booming, but the basic oleochemicals market is saturated, according to Frost & Sullivan.

Malaysia's Petronas Lubricants Marketing Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Petronas Dagangan, plans to expand in East Malaysia as part of a strategy to become ...

Indonesias PT Pertamina Lubricants will expand and upgrade its lubricant blending plant in Jakarta by the end of this year, the company said during th ...

BMW Malaysia Sdn. asked the Malaysian government to reconsider its plans to implement its B10 biodiesel mandate in October this year, concerned that ...

Prices in the Asian base oils market were largely steady, with trading heard to have waned as many participants headed to the ICIS Base Oils conferenc ...