The American Petroleum Institute advised yesterday that May 1 will be the first licensing date for API SN Plus, the supplemental classification for pa ...

The Sequence IVB engine test, the final test for the much-delayed ILSAC GF-6 engine oil category, cleared a major hurdle this month when the Passenger ...

API staff members recommended last week that first licensing for the API SN Plus supplemental engine oil specification be delayed for six weeks until ...

A proposed engine test that is key to the ILSAC GF-6 engine oil specification is failing to discriminate between reference oils, an API official repor ...

North America may be the home of API, but the organizations next engine oil category, API SN Plus, should also spread to other regions, according to i ...

General Motors Angela Willis has succeeded Valvolines Thom Smith as chairman of the Passenger Car Engine Oil Classification Panel, the first time an O ...

The American Petroleum Institutes Lubricants Standards Group formally adopted API SN Plus last week but still has not set a date for first licensing. ...

The American Petroleum Institutes Lubricants Group closed its ballot on SN Plus Dec. 29, with a healthy majority voting to adopt the supplemental cate ...

Fees for the American Petroleum Institutes Engine Oil Licensing and Certification System increased Dec. 1 in order to offset the costs of APIs consume ...

HOUSTON – Ford continues to progress in its development of a shorter test for valve train wear in heavy-duty diesel engines and expects to incor ...

HOUSTON – The semi-annual ASTM meetings here last week included discussions by several groups at the center of engine oil specification developm ...

The American Petroleum Institutes Lubricants Group met in Detroit last week to discuss the new supplemental API SN PLUS engine oil category and when i ...

The Technical Association of the European Lubricants Industry is expanding its program of monitoring engine oils certified as meeting ACEA specificati ...

The Sequence IVB may be attracting the lions share of attention, but the ILSAC GF-6 engine oil upgrade also has six other new or replacement engine te ...

Much of the recent passenger car lubricant news has been focused on the proposed API SN-Plus supplemental category. North American and Asian automaker ...

On Sept. 1, all licenses for General Motors first-generation Dexos1 passenger car engine oils expired – those products may no longer be manufact ...

When the auto and oil industries develop new engine tests for automobile engine oil specifications – as is happening now – there is always ...

At its Standards meeting last week in Dearborn, Michigan, the American Petroleum Institutes Lubricants Group again took up the feasibility of issuing ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – While meeting here last week to consider a proposed supplemental engine oil category, the American Petroleum Institutes Lubri ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Meeting here yesterday, the American Petroleum Institutes Lubricants Group voted unanimously to move forward on establishing ...