Asia-Pacific is thirstier for lubricants than any other region in the world, but tapping into it from the outside presents numerous challenges, an exe ...

Many lubricants depend on antioxidants to protect the base oil against severe oxidation and degradation. A method called voltammetry provides a way to ...

Klines Kunal Mahajan examines the rubber process oils market.

In an international arbitration court, a World Bank tribunal ruled that it didnt have jurisdiction in a 2012 case in which the Netherlands-incorporate ...

Kazakhstan reduced export duties on lubricants, crude oil and other petroleum products, and identified the lowest acceptable crude oil price that stil ...

Australia announced last month that it would not scrap an automotive bailout fund as previously planned, eliciting sighs of relief from automakers and ...

BMW has attempted to settle a Federal Trade Commission charge that it illegally made warranties conditional on consumers having all oil changes perfor ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is approving revisions to Ventura County Air Pollution Control Districts portion of Californias implementatio ...

The Philippines will move from Euro 2 to Euro 4 fuel standards in July instead of next year as previously planned.

A lubricants association asked OSHA last week to state that end users wont be cited for noncompliance to Hazard Communication Standards if suppliers h ...

South Korea and China recently announced that their forthcoming free-trade pact will take 15 years to eliminate Chinese tariffs on South Korean base o ...

An Oregon state legislator introduced a bill last week that would require all state construction projects to use biodegradable lubricants, then quickl ...

The Philippine Supreme Court last week dismissed oil company motions to reconsider or amend a November order for them to vacate a major petroleum prod ...

Just shy of its two-year anniversary, the United Kingdom Lubricants Associations subsidiary, Verification of Lubricants Standards, had garnered 19 mem ...

Condition monitoring of grease presents a big challenge because it is difficult to obtain a representative sample. Recently, some innovative approache ...

In November, the Supreme Court of the Philippines took decisive action to end a 14-year dispute over the existence of Pandacan Oil Depot. Less than fo ...

Tianhe Chemicals recently opened a 6,000 square meter additives research and development facility in Jinzhou, China.

SAE International has stretched the lower boundaries of engine oil viscosity categories, adding two new grades - SAE 8 and SAE 12 - to SAE J300, the E ...

Brazil appears to be falling behind on its targets for gathering used lubricating oil, missing some 14.7 million liters in first-half 2014 alone. That ...

ExxonMobil revealed plans Monday to produce API Group II base stocks at its Rotterdam, Netherlands, refinery starting in 2018. Esso Nederland BV, an E ...