Regulations

A Michigan agency on Sept. 12 announced stop-use and stop-removal orders for motor oils and transmission fluids from City Petroleum of Dearborn and St ...

The American Petroleum Institute is suing Bullseye Lubricants for alleged counterfeiting, trademark infringement, trademark dilution, false advertisin ...

Motor oil labeling guidelines have been updated once again, this time as the result of a unanimous vote at a National Conference on Weights and Measur ...

Health Canada is seeking comments on a proposal to repeal and replace its Controlled Products Regulations with new Hazardous Products Regulations to c ...

The U.S. Department of Agricultures BioPreferred program finalized its 10th round of procurement regulations, which specify that engine crankcase oil ...

The U.S. federal court of Charleston, S.C., sentenced former Delfin Group USA president Markos Baghdasarian to three years in prison for exporting lub ...

Kenyas Energy Regulatory Commission recently invited the Kenyan public to submit written comments on proposed regulations that would require all busin ...

Heritage Crystal-Clean recently settled on $50,000 of Indiana state fines after routine inspections uncovered waste management violations. The Indian ...

MOSCOW – The Russian government recently adopted a waste oil treatment regulation for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, an ...

A California bankruptcy court Monday approved a motion by rerefiner Evergreen Oil and parent Evergreen Environmental Holdings to establish procedures ...

OSHA estimates that compliance with the GHS ruling will cost more than $110 million and will represent about 27 percent of compliance costs for the ch ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will fine Oil Re-Refining Co. $450,000, unless it properly disposes of 150,000 gallons of PCB-contaminated oi ...

A small business owner in Texas sued Smittys Supply and its distributor Atwood Distributing, alleging they sold defective, inadequately tested tractor ...

Fake Lubes Flood Nigeria

March 27, 2013

The Lubricants Producers Association of Nigeria laments the upsurge of impure lubricants, while the countrys two regulatory agencies for lubricants sa ...

The United Nations Security Council recently strengthened sanctions against North Korea, adding perfluorinated lubricants to its list of prohibited it ...

The Federal Trade Commission has closed its investigation into Lubrizols acquisition of Rockton, Ill.-based grease manufacturer Chemtool, clearing the ...

JX Reorganizes Lube Division

February 20, 2013

Japanese oil company JX Nippon is restructuring its lubricants division for greater efficiency. On Feb. 5, JX officials detailed the reforms as part ...

Z Tech v. Lubrizol Dismissed

February 13, 2013

A Federal judge in Michigan dismissed Z Technologies antitrust lawsuit against Lubrizol last week, concluding the four-year statute of limitations app ...

Base Oil Traders Sling Barbs

February 13, 2013

Shamrock Shipping and Trading has warned that any deals concluded by a former employee and his current employer, Feedco, may be challenged in court. I ...

Gulf Considers Lubes Demerger

February 13, 2013

Gulf Oil Corp. Ltd. may demerge its lubricants business into a separately listed company, according to a Feb. 8 filing with the National Stock Exchang ...