Volume 4 Issue 4
Gazprom Breaks Ground on Omsk Project
January 26, 2021Russian oil major Gazprom Neft started construction last week on a modernization of an obsolete base oil plant at its refinery in Omsk, Western Siberia – a project that will add capacity to make 220,000 metric tons per year of API Group II and III oils.
Italmatch Buys Phosphorous Process
January 26, 2021Italmatch Chemicals Group acquired Israel Chemicals’ RecoPhos Project Technology, boosting the group’s development of a process for production of elemental phosphorous – a raw material used in oil additives – from secondary “waste” raw materials.
Aerospace Firm Launches Lubes
January 26, 2021Xeriant, a start-up in the aerospace industry, has jumped into the lubricants business, too, launching a line of metal conditioners and other lubes for applications ranging from automobiles to biogas power generation.
From Other Editions of Lube Report
January 26, 2021PetroChina Opens Pilot PAO Plant
Briefly Noted
January 26, 2021United States-based industrial and automotive lubricants blender Lubrication Engineers named Pure Lubrication as its new authorized distributor for products and services throughout the United Kingdom. Gazprom Neft reached an agreement with the government of Archangelsk Oblast in northwest Russia on import substitution of lubricants and service fluids. Gazprom Neft will increase supplies of lubricants and expand its client base throughout the region’s energy, housing and utilities and industrial businesses.