Regulations

Nynas AB regained access to its bank accounts and will pay off expenses incurred during the past month, taking a step toward recovering from financial ...

The International Maritime Organizations IMO 2020 regulation was implemented at the start of the year, heralding big changes in the fuels used by ship ...

Nynas AB, one of the worlds largest suppliers of naphthenic base stocks, filed for reorganization protection in a Swedish court Friday after banks ref ...

Compliance with the looming IMO 2020 will impact the cost of freight for African lubricant blenders, and some were advised to place orders for base oi ...

Following the European Commissions adoption last month of a quota on duty-free API Group II base oil imports, industry sources say the measure is alre ...

IMO 2020 Approaches

November 27, 2019

With the IMO 2020 regulation on marine fuels scheduled to take effect in just over a month, vessel operators and ports are still preparing for complia ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Nov. 25 charged Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. with posting an inaccurate and misleading earnings ...

EU Moves Toward Group II Quota

November 19, 2019

The European Commission last week adopted a quota for API Group II base oil imports, determining that volumes above 400,000 metric tons per year will ...

The African Continental Free Trade Agreement that went into force in May benefits Africas lubricants blenders by reducing tariffs and other barriers t ...

Tianhe Chemicals Groups trading privileges on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange will remain suspended until further notice, the company announced Wednesday ...

Chile enacted a law last week that aims to recycle used lubricants by giving producers and end-users responsibilities to help recover waste oils. One ...

Neste stated last week that it has written off its holding in Nynas, an admission of the difficulties that the joint venture faces under economic sanc ...

Ola Energy urged the Kenyan government last week to lower its import duties on base oils and lubricant additives to allow lube blenders within the cou ...

A United States appeals court lifted a hold Monday on Crystallex International Corp.s efforts to seize shares of refiner Citgo as part of a grievance ...

The Environmental Protection Agency issued significant new use rules on Sept. 18 under the Toxic Substances Control Act that approve pre-manufacture n ...

Hi-Tech Claims Found Misleading

September 20, 2019

The Competition Commission of Pakistan served notice last month of a finding that Hi-Tech Blending (Pvt) Ltd. used false and misleading statements in ...

Chinas Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council yesterday announced a trial program to exclude 16 types of U.S. products - including grease and ...

The United States federal government notified California last week that it had begun an antitrust probe of the states recent agreement with four autom ...

A European Commission committee met on Sept. 6 to discuss whether to renew, amend or abolish a tariff exemption for API Group II base oil imports to t ...

U.S. distributors and manufacturers of wax and wax products are bracing for the impact of new tariffs on Chinese imports, which went into effect Sept. ...