Planned maintenance is due at Orlen’s refinery in Plock, Poland, starting May 7 for four weeks plus another two weeks for ramp up. The turnaround will affect API Group I SN150, SN500 and bright stock.
Yamagishi Junya and Oshio Tadashi at Eneos Corp. filed a patent application for a base oil for metalworking fluids that has a flash point lower than 70°C and in which, when the integral for all the protons detected by 1H-NMR analysis is taken as 100, the proportion of methyl-group protons is 20-65.
Additive maker Chevron Oronite is in Delhi this week to present at 14th International Symposium on Fuels and Lubricants held at Vivanta by Taj, and at Lubricant Expo North America.