Shell on Thursday said it will convert its 130,000 barrels per day Montreal East refinery to a terminal to receive gasoline, diesel and aviation fuels, to be distributed via its nearby Montreal terminal. The refinery includes a base oil plant with 2,700 barrels per day API Group I capacity. The Montreal East refinery is 75 years old. After comprehensively reviewing a number of options for the Montreal East Refinery over the past six months, it was concluded the facility is no longer a fit with ...

Scot Lubricants plans to renovate and move into a $2.6 million, 202,000-square-foot facility in Northampton, Pa. later this year, expanding its blending, terminaling and packaging operations. On Jan. 6, the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority approved a $1.5 million, 15 year loan to Northampton County New Jobs Corp., on behalf of Allentown-based Scot Lubricants, to acquire and renovate the former Ponderosa Fibres facility, which had served as a deinked market pulp mill. The company wi...

Nigerian officials said they plan to enforce a ban that began Jan. 1 on retail sales of lubricants from bulk tanks in all outlets across the country, aiming to outlaw sales of substandard and counterfeit products to unsuspecting end users. The government said henceforth lubricants could only be sold in approved, branded packs in sales outlets throughout Nigeria. Some local blenders believe the ban will result in improved sales volumes for them. Olumide Adeleke, the Department of Petroleum Resou...

Rowe Minerallwerk GmbH is expanding its lubricants blending production capacity from 25,000 to 60,000 metric tons per year, saying it grew by 12 percent while German lube demand fell 25 percent last year. Due to the increase of our blending plant capacity, we had to increase the loading/unloading area for tank cars from 200 square meters to 750 square meters, the indoor storage has been increased by several tanks with a total of 600,000 liters and a new storage hall of 800 square meters for fin...

WD-40 on Monday reported $9.4 million net income for its first quarter ending Nov. 30, up 22 percent compared to the year-ago period, on net sales of $78 million, down 7 percent. Earnings per share were 56 cents in WD-40s first quarter, up from 46 cents per share in the year-earlier period. San Diego-based WD-40s fiscal year runs from Sept. 1 to Aug. 31. WD-40s net sales for the first quarter ending Nov. 30 reached $77.7 million, down 7 percent from the year-earlier quarter. First quarter sale...

It has been an encouraging start to the year across many routes globally, bucking the usual turgid showing that we have become used to over the past couple of years. Demand is surprisingly high in most regions, perhaps as a consequence of rising crude oil prices. U.S. Gulf of Mexico Right at the beginning of January it looked as though the U.S. Gulf market had dissolved and that there was no interest in shipping anything in any direction. There were more than a few ships that looked uncomfortab...