Neste announced it will convert its Porvoo, Finland, crude oil refinery to process renewable feedstocks, but that change will not affect the site’s production of API Group III base stocks, according to a Chevron representative.

Russian lubricant maker VMPAvto, recently opened a small factory in Saint Petersburg’s heavily industrialized Kirovsky district, which has port access to the Gulf of Finland.

Germany's finished lubricants demand, including process oils, declined 11% in October, as a year-long trend of falling consumption continued, with the steepest declines occuring in hydraulic, machine and metalworking oils, according to government agency data released today.